I am trying to configure a home assistant card so that it displays a video or screen capture when there is an event. I have successfully integrated MQTT with Ring, but I am not sure what to do next. I have done a lot of research trying to create actions and cards, but I can’t seem to get the card to display a video or picture. Further, when I try to save a photo to the /media folder, the folder is blank. I am not sure if I need to use go2rtc (which that seems super confusing). Trying my best to learn but I feel stuck. Any help or guidance would be appreciated
oh bummer, yea, the instructions seems straight forward enough, I just can’t see where I select the “info” sensor or “sensors section”. Just not sure where to go for that
yea I did get this solved. You select The three dots next to “Download Diagnostics”, look throuugh the downloaded file for “RPC Stream” and use that to obtain the information needed to set up the ‘generic camera’ card. Don’t use the snapshot stream, I couldn’t get it to work
note carefully… It is the sensor with the name of your ring plus ‘_info’
There is this sensor info device that is created. You can use this template for the stream URL in the generic camera config. It will pull the right URL for you.
I dont know why the videos and docs don’t do this… I find it much easier to get right
Mqtt mosquito, ring-mqtt, and this… (may need to install go2rtc independently)… unsure. Alot of old, outdated, and wrong information out there… 3/27/2024… this is the way to go. Works no problem.