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

mihir2787 · May 28, 2019, 11:36pm

I used this and just the last entry shows up in my entities. This is my lorex.yaml file

platform: ffmpeg
input: rtsp://USER:PWD@NVR_IP_ADD:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=6&subtype=1
name: CameraNameHere

platform: ffmpeg
input: rtsp://USER:PWD@NVR_IP_ADD:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=5&subtype=1
name: CameraNameHere

platform: ffmpeg
input: rtsp://USER:PWD@NVR_IP_ADD:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=4&subtype=1
name: CameraNameHere

platform: ffmpeg
input: rtsp://USER:PWD@NVR_IP_ADD:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=3&subtype=1
name: CameraNameHere

platform: ffmpeg
input: rtsp://USER:PWD@NVR_IP_ADD:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1
name: CameraNameHere

platform: ffmpeg
input: rtsp://USER:PWD@NVR_IP_ADD:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=2&subtype=1
name: CameraNameHere

Any help would be deeply appreciated

mihir2787 · May 28, 2019, 11:38pm

I am in the same boat as you. Were you able to resolve it?

jaltman056 · May 29, 2019, 1:01am

No, I only get one camera to work and its always the last one in my cameras. Yaml file.

mihir2787 · May 29, 2019, 2:26am

I’ve even tried this in my config.yaml, but with the same results.

camera: !include lorex1.yaml
camera: !include lorex2.yaml
camera: !include lorex3.yaml
camera: !include lorex4.yaml
camera: !include lorex5.yaml
camera: !include lorex6.yaml

mihir2787 · May 29, 2019, 11:43am

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

jaltman056 · May 30, 2019, 3:58pm

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

jaltman056 · June 1, 2019, 2:18pm

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?

mihir2787 · June 2, 2019, 1:05pm

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.

jaltman056 · June 2, 2019, 10:25pm

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

MaikaiLife · June 3, 2019, 8:35pm

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.

mihir2787 · June 5, 2019, 3:33am

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!

mihir2787 · June 28, 2019, 8:44pm

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

jaltman056 · June 28, 2019, 9:35pm

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.

mihir2787 · June 28, 2019, 10:06pm

I see. No worries! Thank you.

mihir2787 · August 6, 2019, 6:18pm

@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 -

platform: generic
still_image_url: http://IPAddressOfNVR:12199/img/snapshot.cgi?size=2&user=UNAME&pwd=PWD
stream_source: rtsp://UNAME:PWD@IPAddressOfNVR:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=6&subtype=1
name: Cam6
platform: generic
still_image_url: http://IPAddressOfNVR:12199/img/snapshot.cgi?size=2&user=UNAME&pwd=PWD
stream_source: rtsp://UNAME:PWD@IPAddressOfNVR/cam/realmonitor?channel=5&subtype=1
name: Cam5
platform: generic
still_image_url: http://IPAddressOfNVR:12199/img/snapshot.cgi?size=2&user=UNAME&pwd=PWD
stream_source: rtsp://UNAME:PWD@IPAddressOfNVR/cam/realmonitor?channel=4&subtype=1
name: Cam4
platform: generic
still_image_url: http://IPAddressOfNVR:12199/img/snapshot.cgi?size=2&user=UNAME&pwd=PWD
stream_source: rtsp://UNAME:PWD@IPAddressOfNVR/cam/realmonitor?channel=3&subtype=1
name: Cam3
platform: generic
still_image_url: http://IPAddressOfNVR:12199/img/snapshot.cgi?size=2&user=UNAME&pwd=PWD
stream_source: rtsp://UNAME:PWD@IPAddressOfNVR/cam/realmonitor?channel=2&subtype=1
name: Cam2
platform: generic
still_image_url: http://IPAddressOfNVR:12199/img/snapshot.cgi?size=2&user=UNAME&pwd=PWD
stream_source: rtsp://UNAME:PWD@IPAddressOfNVR/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1
name: Cam1

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

dicko · August 30, 2019, 9:47am

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

mihir2787 · August 30, 2019, 11:55am

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

dicko · August 30, 2019, 9:08pm

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

mihir2787 · September 4, 2019, 2:40pm

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

dicko · September 4, 2019, 10:11pm

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