Night Owl Security System

Configuration
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Hello,
I am wondering if a night owl DVR security system can be integrated into home assistant.
I would like to see the camera cctv feed in the HA

How I connect to the system is via phone app and from the DVD console. I do not know if it has an API
The device has a media port number 9000 and a private IP address.

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I have a night owl system and would like to do the same. Did you have any luck?

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I am using a Night Owl TH82-44P1-2 DVR and had some luck getting it to work, but only for motion notifications and still pictures, not video.

The device I have (and likely other Night Owl devices) is using Hikvision firmware with Night Owl branding. The ISAPI URLs documented in ftp://hdd.n-soft.net/Drivers/Camera/HIKVISION%20DS-2CD2512F/EN/Development%20Tools/ISAPI/ISAPI%20IPMD%20Service.pdf work on this device. Unfortunately even though the ISAPI results indicate it can use RTSP streaming for the video channels, my device does not appear to have an open RTSP port to connect to and cannot find a way to enable it. Ports 80, 8000, and 30396 are open, but none appear to accept that protocol.

To get the list of channels on your device by running http://x.x.x.x/ISAPI/Streaming/channels and update the yaml accordingly.

My configuration is:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: hikvision
    host: x.x.x.x
    port: 80
    ssl: false
    username: !secret nightowl_username
    password: !secret nightowl_password

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: East Driveway
    still_image_url: http://x.x.x.x/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture
    #stream_source: rtsp://x.x.x.x:8000/Streaming/channels/101
    username: !secret nightowl_username
    password: !secret nightowl_password
    authentication: digest
    verify_ssl: false
  - platform: generic
    name: West Driveway
    still_image_url: http://x.x.x.x/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/201/picture
    #stream_source: rtsp://x.x.x.x:8000/Streaming/channels/201
    username: !secret nightowl_username
    password: !secret nightowl_password
    authentication: digest
    verify_ssl: false
  - platform: generic
    name: Patio
    still_image_url: http://x.x.x.x/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/301/picture
    #stream_source: rtsp://x.x.x.x:30960/Streaming/channels/301
    username: !secret nightowl_username
    password: !secret nightowl_password
    authentication: digest
    verify_ssl: false
  - platform: generic
    name: Pool
    still_image_url: http://x.x.x.x/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/401/picture
    #stream_source: rtsp://x.x.x.x:8000/Streaming/channels/401
    username: !secret nightowl_username
    password: !secret nightowl_password
    authentication: digest
    verify_ssl: false
  - platform: generic
    name: Upstairs
    still_image_url: http://x.x.x.x/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/501/picture
    #stream_source: rtsp://x.x.x.x:8000/Streaming/channels/501
    username: !secret nightowl_username
    password: !secret nightowl_password
    authentication: digest
    verify_ssl: false
  - platform: generic
    name: Downstairs
    still_image_url: http://x.x.x.x/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/601/picture
    #stream_source: rtsp://x.x.x.x:554/Streaming/channels/601
    username: !secret nightowl_username
    password: !secret nightowl_password
    authentication: digest
    verify_ssl: false
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This is what I get after trying to login to that URL for the IP address of my DVR. I’m not home now but I will have to look and see what model DVR I have.

404 Not Found

The requested URL /ISAPI/Streaming/channels was not found on this server.

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I recently bought a NightOwl wired dvr security system DVR-BTD2-81-VT3 with wired cameras CM-DP2LSA-8 not realizing that an online account is required to do any remote viewing. I didn’t want to do that, so I setup the DVR according to instructions (OFFLINE) with basic username and password and connected it by ethernet to my router. The rtsp port is 554. I assigned the DVR a static IP in my router, and forwarded port 554 to that IP. Then on a windows laptop I open up the VLC media player, go to Media → Open Network Stream and in the box provided I type this url:

rtsp://User:[email protected]:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0

where User is my username, Passw is my password and XXX.XX.XXX is the static IP assigned to the DVR. I hit the Play button and the VLC media player displays the screen from the first IP camera. To see the other cameras, just substitute channel=2, channel=3, etc . On my windows laptop, I don’t get the tiled view as shows up on the DVR monitor, but I just open a new window, start another instance of VLC media player with a different channel in the url and get the same effect. It took me a lot of digging and trying out different suggestions to get the rtsp url, so that’s why I’m posting it here, in case someone has the same model.

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@defensora Domainatrix

Thank you for the info I gave up on it and broke down and bought a Hikvision DVR and replaced the Nightowl. Not sure why anyone would not give you more local control over a device such as a DVR you paid for. The cloud access is a good thing under some circumstances but certainly not in this case.

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I know this is an old thread, but I had a devil of a time figuring out the syntax for my DVR-FTD8-16, so to possibly help others:

rtsp://<user>:<password>@<ip>:554?channel=<camera#>&subtype=0

the default <user> is admin
the default <password> is admin

I’m still working on finding the still image syntax.

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