I’ve upgraded to 2021.11.3 this morning and noted that the camera entity associated with my Nest Hub Max always shows a status of ‘streaming’ regardless of whether the camera is on or off.
Is there a method of determining whether the camera is really on or off?
There is no notion of on or off in the camera API. If you turn the camera off via Google Home, then it doesn’t work at all over the API and home assistant.
The status doesn’t actually do anything. It used to always say idle and people complained about the opposite case thinking the camera was broken.
(I personally just wish that status wasn’t used at all.)