Hi All,
I have installed Lorex IP Cameras and I need help in integrating it with my home assistant.
Tried Dahua 3rd party integration it worked until July and after that it stopped working.
Can you link to the integration you were using for clarity’s sake?
I have Lorex cameras integrated using the generic camera integration using an RTSP URL.
What model IP Cameras or Lorex NVR do you have?
Model:
Lorex Fusion 4K 16-Channel 8PoE Wired NVR System
I will try RSTP and see if that works mate
Here’s the format that works for mine:
rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=3&subtype=1
Where channel # is the camera number on the NVR and the IP is the NVR IP address
Thanks Mate
I’m new here guys. Any tutorial to get this done?
For newbies like me, go to you HA > Settings > Device & Services > Add Integration > Generic Camera
Fill out the information as follows:
Stream Source URL: rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=3&subtype=0
RSTP transport protocol: HTTP
Authentication: Basic
subtype=0 to get the best quality.
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I’ve done this for a bit but I find the stream loads slow and is quite behind. Subtype 0 is definitely better.
I messed with go2rtc and web to rsp (so many like names it gets confusing). It seemed to show 4 different protocols to process the stream and some were much snappier than others. WebRTC is supposed to be the best but I didn’t fully wrap my ahead around the process before my home assistant crashed and I had to spend a day recovering it.
I’m going to reinstall go2rtc and try again. I messed with frigate only because I think the front end card is the best but I don’t need the NVR capabilities of it and it’s a bit of work to setup with MQTT etc.
In a perfect world there would be Lorex integration or addon that accessed the NVR like the Lorex app or Desktop Cloud app.