Lovelace Picture-glance card with links for PTZ presets

[danbutter]

So I asked about this already in another thread, but since I got zero replies over the last few days I thought I’d bring it here.
What I’m looking for is similar to the picture-glance card, but instead of an entity you can turn on/off have an icon that send a URL to my PTZ camera to move to another preset.

Link to original thread:

Picture card with links for PTZ Cam presets?

I tried a picture-glance and adding urls for my cams presets via the weblink component, but this opens a popup with the link in it. Not what I’m looking for. I would really like to be able to change the icons to something that makes sense for my locale and simply have touching the icon send the url to move my cam to the PTZ preset. Any thoughts on how to do this?

[integray182]

I did it previously by using a combination of shell commands and scripts. Unfortunately I don’t have my shell_commands.yaml anymore but hopefully this can lead you in the right direction:

1. Find out the direct URL that changes your camera’s preset, then try using the curl command from within your environment to see if it changes the preset. If that works, put that curl command in as a shell command in Home Assistant.

2. Create a script that references that shell command. One of my scripts looked like this:

Blockquote
amcrestlv_goto_preset_1:
alias: ‘Living Room Preset 1’
sequence:
- service: shell_command.amcrestlv_goto_preset_1

3. The script should be selectable as an entity and you can add it into the picture-glance card

[pnbruckner (Phil)]

FWIW, I’ve submitted PR #22949 that adds a couple PTZ services to the amcrest component. I hope they will make the 0.93 release.