Hey folks. I wanted to get more knowledge about video integrations into HA. So i recently integrated my Unifi Protect Cameras into HA. It basically worked flawlessly. I created a dummy dashboard to play around and leveraged two types of cards they are picture entity card and picture glance card. To my noob eyes, they look the same , Id love to get educated on the differences.
security concerns. I wanna be very clearly Im not in any ways trying to accusatory but whoever develops something like this for a video card, woudl they be able to view your camera feed? Again im not saying thats their intention but I wanted to just ask , how does one verify this that there isnt some backdoor built in?
Just to keep you from going astray, those are 3 different authors doing their own thing on GitHub.
HACS is a custom integration that will index GitHub for you with authors that choose to signup for it and will inform you that they have updates. It also makes installation easier. Service is available for themes, custom template macros, custom integrations, and other things.
There’s no such thing as HACS Integrations.
WebRTC is built into HA now, it allows for low latency straming and proxying the video if you access HA from outside. No need for extra integrations for that. The advanced Camera card is useful.
The glance card has the advantage tht it can add entities for e.g. controlling the camera. Advanced Camera card trumps them all, but is a lot more complicated to set up.
Cards that view camera’s would in theory also be able to send the data elsewhere at the expence of a lot of performance. The advantage of open source code is that is that is anyone can inspect the code and see what is going on. I would be more worried about cheap cameras that rely on cloud based services.