Installing ffmpeg package into hassio

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Hello, is there any way to install ffmpeg into my hassio container?

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Hm could be that I actually have ffmpeg allready, tried ffmpeg in the hassio terminal, but now I understand that this is actually not in the container?

Anyway what I try to do is taking a snapshot when a sensor is triggered, now I have a bash script insisde hassio that I call from node-red, Is this a viable way of doing this? it’s really different using containers

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Just add this to your configuration.yaml file and restart.

ffmpeg:

See:

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Oh that was easy, it works now. Thank you

Also to get it to work
I had to call a function inside hassio from node-red which runs the script, so I could not call the bash script directly from node-red, I’m guessing it’s because hassio and NR is different containers?

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:man_shrugging: I don’t use node-red.

Try asking in the node-red forum category. Give plenty of details about the function and script.

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Hi @andersB!

I know this is a really old thread, but did you ever got any further with it? I am looking for exactly the same thing (invoke a bash script containing a ffmpeg commando, from node-red).

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Did you find a way to do this?

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Depends what you are trying to do - if you want NodeRed to run the command inside the node-red container, then you need to add ffmpeg to the node-red container. If NodeRed is just asking Home Assistant to run the command - then it needs to be in the Home Assistant container.

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Basically I have Home ASsistant OS installed on a raspberry Pi 4 8g Ram.
I installed Node-Red as an add-on in HA

I added to configuration.yaml:
ffmpeg:
so I can record a mjpeg camera stream with a command_line switch (this is how i know its working)
But that´s not how i want to do the workflow, i’d rather have a node in node-red that can call the same command as i am doing in HA.
I’ve tried Exec node, but it says:

ffmpeg: command not found

I also went into HA CLI or command line through SSH and tried to run the ffmpeg command and the same thing happened, it does not work…

I dont know what i’m doing wrong, or the way to aproach this.

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Right, but do you want the recording to be made INSIDE NodeRed or do you want NodeRed to call a service in Home Assistant to handle making the recording?

The CLI won’t find the command, because it is a container all on it’s own.

EDIT:

If you absolutely want ffmpeg to be available inside the NodeRed container, then pop to the configuration tab for the NodeRed addon and find the system_packages option, and add:

 - ffmpeg
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That was exactly what I wanted to do.

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As an aside, if I want to use ffmpeg in a sh script that’s called by something in HA, I need access to ffmpeg. It’s not in /usr/bin and not in the path. Is there any way to do this with a locked down HAOS?

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I don’t know is the only answer I can give. I know you can login to the HASSOS file system (by typing login at the prompt) and then add ffmpeg using apk add but I don’t think the changes persist OS updates.

Because HomeAssistant itself is a docker container, then ffmpeg is installed INSIDE the Homeassistant container and is not available outside it in the host. Technically at least.

Entering the Homeassistant docker container docker exec -it homeassistant /bin/bash and then running which ffmpeg returns the path as /usr/bin/ffmpeg

Hope that helps.