[Integration] Android TV live cam video streams in a Picture in Picture triggered by motion detection. AKA video-doorbell

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What happens if you paste this url in a regular browser. I imagine it won’t work. How do you fill the variable?

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It works fine both internal and external to my network.

https://xxxxxxxxx/webrtc/embed?url=8653384037128690460903504234864334989821
Loads the video feed instantly (as MSE).

Executed: 18 September 2023 at 18:48:15
Result:

params:
  domain: rest_command
  service: pipup_url_on_tv
  service_data:
    title: Door
    message: Someone is at the front door
    width: 640
    height: 480
    url: >-
      https://xxxxxxxxx/webrtc/embed?url=8653384037128690460903504234864334989821
    duration: 30
  target: {}
running_script: false

I’ve installed the go2rtc docker from alexxit/go2rtc and the WebRTC Camera plugin to HA.

go2rtc automatically picked up my cameras when the plugin connected:

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I’ve tried using the front_door entity as well as the rtsp feeds (via “url:” in the webrtc.create_link section)

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Weird. I’m just using a static url. Which works for me. Can’t test for you unfortunately since I’m on holiday for another two weeks. Hopefully you get it sorted

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Yea, makes no sense - I can’t see anything wrong. I’ll try a static external link and see if that works.

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Are HA and android tv on the same subnet? Have you tried a youtube link instead of your internal one? Just so rule things out.

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Got everything working (almost). One question:

When PipUp renders on the Nvidia shield and the WebRTC stream starts it pauses any other content currently playing. Anyway to solve this?

(Using UniFi G4 Instant camera)

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It’s the same for me. Have you got a solution? Thanks

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If you don’t pass through Audio it shouldn’t pause the video

So something like this:
http://ip:port/webrtc.html?src=unify_camera&media=video

Instead of this:
http://ip:port/webrtc.html?src=unify_camera&media=video-audio

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Do you mean in my Go2rtc config or in the scripts.yaml? Thanks!

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You sir… are a legend… :slight_smile:

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Thank you for your comment. This helped me to finally understand my problem to get a working link from the rtc service.
Before i got constantly ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED and nothing worked.

In the script.yaml my last line now looks like

 url: http://192.168.1.5:8123/webrtc/embed?url={{ link_id }}

which really needed the port of my HASS instance here to work.
Maybe it also helps someone else :slight_smile: Used the APK from DesertBlade.
Thank you all for sharing here! Very much appreciated.

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I got this working recently as well! I took a LOT of inspiration from Sean’s guide, but made a more “step-by-step guide”. I use Windows instead of Linux, and had to use an alternative APK that allowed for not https:// links.

This means, no port forwarding was necessary.

Hopefully it helps a few of you do the same, because this is one of my favorite setups to date: Display Picture-in-Picture Live Camera Feeds on Nvidea Shield using Home Assistant - Smart Home Sysadmin

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I’m having trouble setting up a second shield.
What would be the correct way to have two up and running?

First one worked fine, so I set up the second and got the second running. But this also caused a conflict somewhere with the first
Even if I remove the second shield from the rest_command.yaml I can’t push to the first on port 7979 anymore.

When I try through CMD I get
curl: (7) Failed to connect to xxx.xxx.x.xx port 7979 after 2038 ms: Couldn't connect to server

pipup_url_on_tv:
  # Use with Webrtc camera as described here:
  # https://github.com/AlexxIT/WebRTC/wiki/Cast-or-share-camera-stream#html-page
  url: http://xxxxxx:7979/notify
  content_type: 'application/json'
  verify_ssl: false
  method: 'post'
  timeout: 20
  payload: >
    {
      "duration": {{ duration | default(20) }},
      "position": {{ position | default(0) }},
      "title": "{{ title | default('') }}",
      "titleColor": "{{ titleColor | default('#50BFF2') }}",
      "titleSize": {{ titleSize | default(10) }},
      "message": "{{ message }}",
      "messageColor": "{{ messageColor | default('#fbf5f5') }}",
      "messageSize": {{ messageSize | default(14) }},
      "backgroundColor": "{{ backgroundColor | default('#0f0e0e') }}",
      "media": { 
        "web": {
          "uri": "{{ url }}", 
          "width": {{ width | default(640) }},
          "height": {{ height | default(480) }}
        }
      }
    }
pipup_url_on_tv2:
  # Use with Webrtc camera as described here:
  # https://github.com/AlexxIT/WebRTC/wiki/Cast-or-share-camera-stream#html-page
  url: http://xxxxxxxxx:7979/notify
  content_type: 'application/json'
  verify_ssl: false
  method: 'post'
  timeout: 20
  payload: >
    {
      "duration": {{ duration | default(20) }},
      "position": {{ position | default(0) }},
      "title": "{{ title | default('') }}",
      "titleColor": "{{ titleColor | default('#50BFF2') }}",
      "titleSize": {{ titleSize | default(10) }},
      "message": "{{ message }}",
      "messageColor": "{{ messageColor | default('#fbf5f5') }}",
      "messageSize": {{ messageSize | default(14) }},
      "backgroundColor": "{{ backgroundColor | default('#0f0e0e') }}",
      "media": { 
        "web": {
          "uri": "{{ url }}", 
          "width": {{ width | default(640) }},
          "height": {{ height | default(480) }}
        }
      }
    }
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Oh my! This works great. I’m using an AT&T/DirecTV Gemini (Osprey) streaming box which, BTW, does not work with Notifications for Android TV. Thank you. :grin:

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Excellent work mate. I was really reluctant to expose the stream outside and setup SSL/TLS. Nevertheless, credits to everyone’s efforts here.