Iphone as camera

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I’ve got an iPhone 5 I’d like to use as a camera in Hassio. I thought I had seen someone talking about it in this forum but cannot find anything. Is this possible?

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You could use use an IP webcam app like this one and pull the mjpeg stream into HA with the generic MJPEG component.

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Thanks, trying it now.

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I have been using a different IP camera app, but probably works similarly to the one linked by @ikonixx. Nice thing about this one is that you can set up template switches to change settings.

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Thanks Mike, I’ve got the camera working. Switches next.

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Mike, I lost your post with the template switches. Could you post them again?

May thanks.

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No problem. Here they are (from this thread)

switch:
  - platform: command_line
    switches:
      camera_torch:
        friendly_name: Torch
        command_on: 'curl http://<ipaddress>/parameters?torch=1' 
        command_off: 'curl http://<ipaddress>/parameters?torch=0'
      camera_flip:
        friendly_name: Flip Camera
        command_on: 'curl http://<ipaddress>/parameters?flip=1' 
        command_off: 'curl http://<ipaddress>/parameters?flip=0'

camera:
  - platform: mjpeg
    name: iPhone4
    mjpeg_url: http://<ipaddress>/live

Depending on which app you used, these may or may not work for you. But they should at least give you some ideas.

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Hi, started playing with this again as I came across an old iPad mini 2. It would be cool to wall mount it with Hassio running and also have IP Cam running in the background. I don’t know whether IP Cam purposely shuts down when minimized or if the iPad is unable to run two apps. I do have background app refresh on, but without IP Cam being visible, the video feed is shut off. Any ideas?

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I am finding the IFTTT integration with Manything is useful if you are prepared to pay the 10 dollars per month AUD.

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Hi

I am trying to do similar . Have you implemented this ?

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I am in the exact same position. I have an iPad 2 on the wall and wanted to use the camera in the background. Have you managed to do it?

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Not in the background sorry.