Hi, I would like to have a monitoring view on my watch wherever I am. And I would like this image to be live. Does anyone have an idea how to achieve this?
I asked on discord and they told me to tag you
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There’s nothing “to it” other than to get your camera working in HA and link it to HomeKit. I can live view all my cameras from my watch from anywhere. It could be limited by your camera capabilities.
And how can I check what could be limiting this? Because for the test I downloaded the IP Webcam application on my phone and added the camera in HA, everything works, there is a beautiful live image. But when I connected the camera to Homekit it does not load the image. It does not connect. Is it the fault of the settings?
Not all cameras are the same, HomeKit requires specific stream URL’s to work and they may not be exposed to HA, meaning you have to take control of the HK config in YAML instead and play with the camera settings to see what might work. This is a rabbit hole that’s hard to help with because there are thousands of cameras out there with hundreds of different firmwares written by dozens of companies. If you search your camera model + “HomeKit” or “Homebridge” you might find the proper connect strings.
The other thing you need to have in the ffmpeg integration.
For me, I route all of my cameras into HA not via the camera but using SecuritySpy, which gives a very nice standardized URL for me to access the live streams. I first did it per camera and had to go out and discover what each camera’s live URL was (which is why I scrapped that and funneled through SecuritySpy instead).
You can see from the docs you can really fine tune each camera as needed.