Did you start with #1?
I also bought a G5Pro but the WIFI version, and i have a problem too. I am pretty new to HA and the whole Smarthome-thing, so forgive me if my questions are stupid in the beginning. I managed to get camera to workā¦wel kind of. In my dashboard i have a ācamera viewā which is obviously broken,
How can i add a stream to my Dashbaord and not (in the best case) a picture? I can see the stream in the Aqara App working well. Thanks for your help.
Hey!
I have the camera connected to HomeKit and the Aqara App, It appears I managed to have connected the hub part of the camera to HomeKit and home assistant through matter (even though it says itās unavailable in the matter integration).
I might be stupid but I canāt figure how to connect the camera itself to home assistant. Anyone has faced such issue and found out?
I add it HA from adding it to Scrypted with RTSP stream. Then use HomeKit Device integration to bring the camera directly to my HA dashboards
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There is an Aqara integration I think, but it was steering me towards Matter, which doesnāt have camera support yet, as I think a few above discovered. I bit the bullet and spent the last few days configuring Frigate, which is fantastic (but setting up frigate.yaml is a bitch). Thereās both a frigate add-on (so you have to be on Supervised or HA OS) and a frigate integration; the latter exposes all the sensors and streams you need. It was able to pull in four different random cameras I had lying around, and it yields a professional looking page with all your cameras as low-res snapshots into which you can click for the beautiful high-res stream, especially from this camera. The CPU on my M2 mac mini host did not budge visibly (even without hardware acceleration becauseā¦ UTM).
I also added the G5 Pro to HomeKit secure video because I wanted offsite video storage (too easy to steal the server, but Apple is the only one I trust), and so far that functions fine in parallel with Frigate. Weirdly, the camera is not wifi 802.11ax compatible, but it connected flawlessly to my 5 Ghz channel on -ac and miraculously is compatible with WPA3! Itās insane how few cameras arenāt compatible with modern encryption. After updating the firmware i denied the camera internet access and there have been no complaints from it; HKSV goes through your hub (an AppleTV in my case).
I do have a gripe, though, and itās this: HomeKit presence detection seems to work off a 2d map and pretty much sucks. For instance: if Iām in the gym a few floors down, it thinks Iām home. I have ESPresence on small dev boards for bluetooth detection, and this is sharp as a tack and knows exactly when Iāve left; you can successfully send a binary_sensor with an occupancy class to HomeKit, but thereās no way I can find with shortcuts or automations to arm/disarm the HKSV camera. If someone knows a way around this, please let me know- it seems to be one of the few remaining walls in the garden.
You can of course use the Frigate side in HA and run them side by side- this doesnāt seem to overload either the camera or cause a network traffic problem in my instance.