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Not quite (yet?).

  • The release notes say “initial support” which means that basic plumbing to support webrtc in the frontend and core was added in the release. (as stated, this doesn’t do anything unless an integration starts using it)
  • nest cameras were updated to support webrtc natively (e.g. new generation 2 camera models and doorbells). The nest cameras themselves support webrtc so they can use the plumbing added in the previous step.
  • The WebRTC custom component developed by @AlexxIT has a unique capability in that it converts an RTSP stream to WebRTC using an external server RTSPtoWebRTC – home assistant core doesn’t do that yet.
  • AlexxIT and I have been chatting about how we could start using that generic core support in the custom compoment in Integrate with standard Home Assistant WebRTC card · Issue #138 · AlexxIT/WebRTC · GitHub – you can see from the discussion there may be corner cases that we might not be able to support in home assistant core, so it may never be a replacement entirely for the custom component
  • I’ve started working on pulling similar functionality into core in Add `rtsptowebrtc` integration by allenporter · Pull Request #59660 · home-assistant/core · GitHub – My thought is that we’ll be able to make the very basic setup case easier to get working with an add-on, which could benefit more users broadly with simple setups, and help with test coverage to avoid breaking changes in future release.
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