How to view live stream in Home Assistant

Third party integrations
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Hi,

I want to view a live stream when I click something in Home Assistant. The live stream is an Arlo camera.

I had this kind of working before I switched to pi 3 a couple of days when my Hass setup was on my osx laptop. What I was doing was calling a python script which would get the live rtsp url and I would call ffplay with this url.

However, now I am using pi and accessing hass on it via my browser I imagine this python script will open ffplay on the pi and not be shown to me in the browser which was ok before because it would open ffplay on my laptop anyway where hass was originally running.

My hope is that I can view the arlo stream when i click something to start it in the location where my arlo snapshot image is placed in my hass homepage but if that isn’t possible I would like to know my options in making my current simple python script open ffplay on client side instead of on the device hass is currently running?

Any help appreciated.

2

If you select camera in HA it will provide live view.

This require some processor power from my experience and RasPi was slow to show live video.

3

Thanks but I am not able to see any image when I click - just an empty popup, I used to be able to see a snapshot which is not what I want.

Shouldn’t there be a way for the server to get a url for my rtsp stream and play the stream actually within home assistant or at least send that url to the client so the client can run ffplay?

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Ffmpeg component likely need to be enabled.

The pop-up should be live video.
Be aware that the HA server process the video then serve it over web. I could not get live video to work well until I move from RasPi to server