How to draw text on image? (FFMPEG drawtext command)

[Mahko_Mahko]

• I want to read a local image file, draw text on it as an overlay, and write it back locally using ffmpeg in a shell command (overlay timestamp sourced from filename)

• I’m trying to use the ffmpeg drawtext filter

• My image is in www and I can read/write it (copy/move/rename etc)

I’ve tried:

• Lots of keyword searches for relevant home assiantant threads.

• a squillion combinations of syntax variants I’ve found online

Apparently accessing the font file is the most common point of failure. ffmpeg is working fine for a bunch of other commands.
Setup is hassio on raspberry pie.

Threads I’ve looked at:

Use TTF in Lovelace

Sure the url is just local/fonts/etc... But what is the type? And how do I use it in the card?

Camera with rtmp stream

Hi can some one shed some light on this… I’ve got a local stream server that is outputting a video via rtmp protocol. The video is being generated using ffmpeg and has this parameter: -vf "drawtext=fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf:text='%{localtime\:%X}': fontcolor=white@1: x=20: y=20" I can see the time using my VLC player BUT not inside the HA lovelace interface: https://monosnap.com/file/eNLOMlnW9WEIVhrLJnnGSBk23UQoFj I’m sooo puzzled to why that is? p.s. i’…

Here’s the kind of thing I’ve tried. I swear I’ve tried a gazillion variants of this over a squillion hours. Especially paths, escaping, and ", ': fiddling.

shell_command:
  drawtext: 'ffmpeg -i /config/www/motioneye_files/GiraffeCam1/all_timelapse/lastestGiraffe.jpg -vf drawtext=fontfile="arial.ttf":text=Last60min -y /config/www/motioneye_files/GiraffeCam1/all_timelapse/drawtext_lastestGiraffe.jpg'
  drawtext2: 'ffmpeg -i /config/www/motioneye_files/GiraffeCam1/all_timelapse/lastestGiraffe.jpg -vf drawtext=fontfile=arial.ttf:text=Last60min -y /config/www/motioneye_files/GiraffeCam1/all_timelapse/drawtext_lastestGiraffe.jpg'
  drawtext3: 'ffmpeg -i /config/www/motioneye_files/GiraffeCam1/all_timelapse/lastestGiraffe.jpg -vf drawtext=text=Last60min -y /config/www/motioneye_files/GiraffeCam1/all_timelapse/drawtext_lastestGiraffe.jpg'

If anyone could confirm they have a ffmpeg drawtext filter working and how, that would be really great!!!