New House - Existing Lorex DVR system, will it work?

Hardware
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I conceded and I am finally using the Motion Eye Addon on HassIO :unamused:

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Thanks for your message. I’m going to give it a try. I have it loaded up but I’m in the middle of changing my entire network system. All new managed switches an AP access points.
Until I receive another need managed switch I do not have network access to my NVR.
Next week?

How does the motion eye work with Lorex?

Jon

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I have access to the Lorex NVR again. I have been going over motion eye but I can’t figure out the setup for a camera. Can you post your settings?

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In Motion Eye --> Add Camera
Camera Type: Network Camera
URL: rtsp://YOUR_NVR_IP_ADDRESS:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1
Username: YOUR_NVR_UNAME
Password: YOUR_NVR_PWD

Once you type these in, it should take a moment or so to get the Camera feed populated as “(unknown) RTSP/TCP Camera” with a dropdown menu including the UDP option. I am using the TCP option and I added all my cameras using the same settings. I am using MotionEye 0.4.2 and latest HassIO (I think is 0.93) on Ubuntu Linux LTS18.04. I hope this helps you. Good Luck.

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Thanks for the info.
I have got everything set as you did and from the web setup of motioneye everything works.
However, when I ticked the (iframe) left panel option I get an error.
I did some searching and found the yaml for iframe motioneye. It fails to load. It only showes me my IP for home assistant.

Blockquote
motioneye:
title: motionEye
icon: mdi:cctv
url: https://192.168.1.5:8765
Blockquote

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HI @jaltman056

When you tried the config I gave you did, you monitor the logs and see something like this?

2019-06-03 20:31:59 WARNING (MainThread) [haffmpeg.tools] Error starting FFmpeg.

2019-06-03 20:33:01 ERROR (MainThread) [haffmpeg.core] FFmpeg fails [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘ffmpeg’: ‘ffmpeg’

I tried my camera setup on my X86 install running on Ubuntu and got this error I’m working through.

FYI, I found my answer here…

Once I installed it my cameras are working now.

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I am using Hass.IO, so for me, all I did was install the montion eye addon and flip the switch on to show it in the sidebar, and I refreshed the page and viola! I am glad to know that your cameras now work!

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@jaltman056, were you able to get this going without MotionEye?

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Yes I did. I’m sorry I didn’t give you any feedback.

Motion Eye work very well with Lorex dvr. Too bad they just don’t support their products.

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I see. No worries! Thank you.

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@jaltman056 I finally got this working!

Here’s what I changed -
Added this to -
configuration.yaml

frontend:
javascript_version: latest

stream:

I have a cameras.yaml file, where I added these entries -

On my lovelace, I am using the following 6 cards -

camera: live
entity: camera.camera1
type: picture-entity

camera: live
entity: camera.camera2
type: picture-entity

camera: live
entity: camera.camera3
type: picture-entity

camera: live
entity: camera.camera4
type: picture-entity

camera: live
entity: camera.camera5
type: picture-entity

camera: live
entity: camera.camera6
type: picture-entity

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Hi

Did you put anything else anywhere as Im getting 2 errors

Component error: javascript_version - Integration javascript_version not found.
Component error: cameras - Integration cameras not found.

I have 2 Skyview cameras on a HView 8 channel DVR.

Do you know what Im doing wrong ?

Thanks in advance

Martyn

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ffmpeg:
  ffmpeg_bin: /usr/bin/ffmpeg

frontend:
  javascript_version: latest

stream:

In my configuration.yaml

and the camera config is in my cameras.yaml file

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Thanks that got rid of the errors.

Still no stream. I did notice that the names dont seem to match the cameras, is that correct ?

Where is the matching info for the camera names ie camera.camera1 as camera 1 is called cam1?

Thanks

Martyn

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Does the stream run locally on a vlc player with the same rtsp link?

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Hi, got it working. I found another url input like below and it worked. I now have similar screenshots and streams working in HA as above.

rtsp://192.168.0.20:8554/user=USERNAME_password=PASSWORD_channel=2_stream=0.sdp?real_stream

Thanks for your help

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Are you using motion Eye? Is port 8554 a typo?

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Is port 8554 a typo?

Probably not. 8554 is an alternate port for RTSP.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=554

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Hi Folks,

absolute n00b here but I’ve got kinda familiar with the Lorex system and noticed some differences with the setup here and what should be used for some systems. It’s a LHA2108LC and I can use the Lorex Client 13 for viewing my cameras on desktop and the Lorex Cirrus app on iOS.

I log in to those with Device ID/IP, port 9000 (disregard this for HA), user (admin) and pw.

In the Lorex Client 13 on desktop (and I think on the DVR itself - it’s in the attic I’m not going up there now) you go to the below path

Settings > Network > RTSP

In there you should have RTSP enabled, Verify is enabled for me, port 554. Below this I have;

Instruction :
Analog Channel: rtsp:////IP:port/chA/B
A:01(ch1),02(ch2)…
B : 0(main stream, 1(sub stream)

So after a bit of fiddling about with that info and the info in this thread I have put camera: !include camera.yaml in my main config and my camera.yaml looks like this;

- platform: ffmpeg
  input: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/ch2/0
  name: driveway

- platform: ffmpeg
  input: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/ch4/0
  name: back

- platform: ffmpeg
  input: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/ch5/0
  name: nursery

I hope this isn’t too n00b for people here, I’m getting to grips with yaml - that took me the longest here in all honesty, but I’m pretty happy I got this sorted!

DC

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Hi tried setting it up and i see following error in my ha logs:

av.error.HTTPNotFoundError: [Errno 875574520] Server returned 404 Not Found: 'rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/ch2/0'; last error log: [rtsp] method DESCRIBE failed: 404 Not Found

this is my camera.yaml config

- platform: ffmpeg
  input: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/ch2/0
  name: driveway

any ideas how to fix it?

i verified that i have rtsp enabled on port 554. Is there a way to test it without HA, i tried with vlc and no luck