The new Media Browser Integration is a beautiful addition for google home and chromecast users. When you launch it, by default, you are presented with 3 media source options: Camera, Local Media, and Text to Speech. They all seem to work EXCEPT the camera option, how do you use this? I have cameras added to HA as amcrest, onvif, and platform:generic. I’ve tried setting my rtsp streams to both internal IPs and external URLs using my external domain.com DNS redirects. Nothing works. Is this even supported yet? Surely if this “Camera” tile is here, it must work with something?
Hm - like dankrill I have Dahua and Amcrest cameras added to HA as/with Dahua, amcrest, onvif and generic camera and I try to play the stream to a Sony TV with build-in chromecast.
There you can only select the device on which the stream will be played. But without a camera stream (cameras are incompatible) there is nothing to play.
It should, but no. My cameras run great in the dashboard with rtsptoweb (less than .5secs delay) But, they are not recognized on media section. On the other hand, im able to cast my dashboard so i watch the whole thing on the tv. But this generates imput lag so i have like 5secs stream delay when i do so
Has anyone found a solution to this issue? I have a reolink camera I am trying to setup in home assistant. Set it up with the reolink camera integration, onvif, and also generic camera. When I go to Media->Camera and try to cast to any of my chromecast devices (or any device for that matter) I always see “3 incompatible items hidden”. The cameras work fine everywhere else in home assistant including on my dashboard.
The cameras also show up as incompatible if I try to use them as media within an automation.
I haven’t changed anything in the camera settings. Stream is H.264. Rebooting the host (see my other post) doesn’t help either. The cameras are still and permanently displayed as incompatible.
As you can see, the files seem to be there; it shows date, time, length, and even what has been detected… I try playing the video in the browser, as has been suggested previously.
This happens on both Firefox and Chromium on my desktop PC as well as on the Home Assistant Android App. Videos stay at 0:00, they won’t load. I thought, perhaps loading these from the camera might be a bit slow, so I waited for like, forever. No difference.
Now I use Onvif and H.264 and it works.
