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;
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!
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
For the folks that are having the issue where only the last camera shows up, here is how you fix it. Turns you for the first camera you have to do “- platform” Basically a - then a space and for the subsequent lines for that camera you just enter in two spaces.
platform…
input…
name…
platform…
input…
name…
Hopefully my image uploads but its a formatting issue with the dash and the spaces but you can see that this forum tries to make that a bullet when in fact this forum messes up our formatting haha… and i have no idea what im doing either
Start line one for camera one with - dash space and the next line with space space
Could you tell how you got Lorex cameras to work with the Amcrest component? I can’t figure out how to even enable one camera stream as the component won’t accept the rtsp://::@:/cam/realmonitor?channel=&subtype= url format required to stream Lorex cameras.
Here’s what I have in my config.yaml file for the Amcrest component:
amcrest: Error on device update!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py", line 359, in _async_add_entity
await entity.async_device_update(warning=False)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 466, in async_device_update
await task
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/amcrest/camera.py", line 379, in update
self._color_bw = self._get_color_mode()
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/amcrest/camera.py", line 587, in _get_color_mode
return _CBW[self._api.day_night_color]
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/amcrest/video.py", line 168, in day_night_color
return int(self.video_in_option('DayNightColor'))
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/amcrest/video.py", line 145, in video_in_option
[opt for opt in self.video_in_options.split()
IndexError: list index out of range
For LOREX, yesterday when I set these up I had to make sure the stream I used was using CBR, as VBR didnt. This was pulling from the DVR channels. Clicking on the card launches a stream as well. I haven’t fiddled with audio settings for the one camera I have with audio on. Once I figured this out, I set every non LOREX camera (D-Link crap internal cameras like 2630 and the like) to the same quality settings.
Its a little tricky to configure these settings in a LOREX and my camera’s are on my LAN not plugged into the DVR directly. I just went to the webpage for each camera. You can do from the LOREX DVR web page too under the Camera Settings/Recording.
Example:
camera:
- platform: ffmpeg
input: 'rtsp://<user>:<pin at the DVR>@192.168.1.XXX:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1'
name: Front Yard
- platform: ffmpeg
input: 'rtsp://<user>:<pin at the DVR>@192.168.1.XXX:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=3&subtype=1'
name: Front Porch
- platform: ffmpeg
input: 'rtsp://<user>:<pin at the DVR>@192.168.1.XXX:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=2&subtype=1'
name: Garage Side Door
Exact settings on a camera:
Main Stream: H.264H, Super OFF, Resoution (Dealers choice), FPS 15, Bit Rate Type CBR, Bit Rate 4MB.
Sub Stream: H.264H, Resolution (D1) 704x480, FPS 15, CBR, 512kbs
I can use subtype 0 if I want, but I just use the lower resolution. Could put both in I guess and have the higher resolution for the tap action.
I was thrilled to be able to integrate my Lorex cameras into HA as a result of this thread, but now am getting greedy and wonder if states can be read - specifically person detection (which my system NVR supports along with automobile detection). Working code for one of my cams with my NVR’s static IP:
- platform: ffmpeg
input: rtsp://admin:[email protected]/cam/realmonitor?channel=2&subtype=1
name: n driveway
Since these are pretty much the same as the Amcrest/Dahua I tried out the Amcrest integration and its working great. I am using that for the 8 lorex cameras bypassing the DVR. I have motion detection as well with a 1 minute cooldown after adjusting the anti-dither (Event>Video Detection>Anti_Dither) to 60 seconds on each camera. I let the DVR do its thing and the DVR still shoots my internal mail server snapshots on motion that if I find something interesting I still sit down at it and review footage. Most of my activity around here is wildlife. Saw a massive owl on porch other night due to the motion sensor going off while setting up a version of the security dashboard page add-on for dwains dashboard.
So, here is an example in configuration.yaml
amcrest:
- host: 192.168.1.xxx
name: "Front Yard"
username: admin
password: !What I changed this to, default is admin on these silly things
resolution: low
binary_sensors:
- motion_detected
- online
I didnt use the DVR this time around, I went straight to the cameras. I have substream 1 (the low above) set to D1, 5 FPS and CBR with 512. I set audio to AAC on those with it using lowest sample. When I open up the stream I hear the audio.
I can keep all 8 streams running since the bps is pretty low. I don’t really intend to use the sensor for automation.
I have two varifocal and ptz doesnt work on them, which is mentioned in the add on notes.
That’s encouraging, but I have all my cams routing through my Lorex NVR and don’t have 9 vacant network ports on my switches to move them. I just tried your binary_sensors code onto my configuration.yaml for one of the cams but the config validation returned:
Invalid config for [camera.ffmpeg]: [binary_sensors] is an invalid option for [camera.ffmpeg]. Check: camera.ffmpeg->binary_sensors. (See ?, line ?).
The amcrest integration is supposed to work with the DVR channels in RTSP mode, but I didnt experiment with it to see if it was encoding motion in the stream. Someone else posted they were able to get it working. I’ll play around with it some today and report back if I get success with it working that way with motion. I can get the stream in the dashboard 5 different ways it was the motion sensor I was after that moved me to amcrest integration.
What you do is use the rtps: I linked above as the source for each channel. He’s using ffmpeg_motion platform to create the sensors. Be sure to read the third part where he’s using a secrets file for the rtsp streams. I havent gotten around to trying this out just yet.
it still returns an invalid config error in relation to binary_sensor. Remember, I can get the camera views to work, just not the sensors.
Also, with your last code, how to you use motion or people-detection as a trigger?
I have a few 4k Lorex cameras and a Lorex NVR also working as a sub-net router for the caemras. I am unable to find out of these camras can support rstp. I know the IP address of each of these cameras, and the port the NVR is using to funnel data to them on the main network. Can you expand on how I can verify this?
