Remote home assistant camera integration

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Hi All,

I have a remote home assistant at my company location. Here I have a 3D printer and a camera pointed at that 3D printer. That camera is configured as a generic RTSP camera in the home assistant at the remote location.
However I’d like to include this camera inside my home assistant at home.
I think this might be possible using REST API & a long lived token but I’m not sure how exactly to do t his for cameras.

I have already tested this with a simple sensor but a camera seems more complicated

  - platform: rest
    resource: https://HOMEASSISTANTURL:8123/api/states/sensor.processor_use
    name: Remote HA Processor
    method: GET   
    headers:    
      Authorization: Bearer TOKENTOKENTOKEN
      content-type: 'application/json'
    value_template: '{{ value_json.state }}'
    unit_of_measurement: "%"

Has anyone tried this before?
Thanks in advance!

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Hi!

Did you manage to get that work? I have setup of 2 HA’s; one in “main” and one in “remote”. I am using Remote Home Assistant.

On remote, I have cameras integrated and locally they are visible. On main, I can see camera entities prefixed etc. nicely, but no image from remote. All the other entities work as fine.

Curious…had you similar issues?

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Ever resolve this?

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Has anyone able to solve it?
Please, let me know how.
Thank you in advance.

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Hi, not really… The closest I got back then was creating a script that pulled one image off the camera instance of the other HA using bash and calling that script with ha shell command. This created a jpeg which I could display in HA. I made an automation calling that shell command every second… Making ideally a one fps camera but it was more like a 0.2 fps Camara :joy:… So long story short… No :sweat_smile:.
Maybe since then something has been added to accommodate our crazy needs

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Maybe it’s worth to consider a VPN between both locations.
Since it’s a office/company you might also gain other advantages from it.

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Valid point… !
Thanks.