Following up on the Camera support for HomeKit component feature request, it would be really great if the HomeKit component would also provide support for the Secure Video feature.
Definitely would be great - and with the new additions announced today around facial recognition and being able to define activity zones for Homekit Secure Video, it would be amazing to use small, cheap cameras for the raw feed and have HSV do the processing on the homekit hub
The more I think about it, the more excited I am for the potential of this feature. Up until now, I’ve been trying a number of the custom components that use some form of AI to detect images (e.g. DOODS). From these triggers, I then call a series of automation steps to decide whether to record, record, then send me a notification. I have tried to build sones sort of NVR interface in Lovelace, but cannot get anything to look/work well.
For those of us in both the HA and Apple ecosystem, this has huge potential. Leverage HA to push “generic” IP came to HomeKit, then have HomeKit act as a easy-to-use NVR.
I second this. This is the number one feature I am waiting for! I have everything integrated into home assistant and use it as my primary UI even though I have HomeKit running as well. The only thing missing are the cameras as I don’t want to lose hksv functionality!
I’ve just seen that HSV can be used with other cameras and doorbells now with Scrypted so hopefully it shouldn’t be long before we can use it in HA
Thanks for sharing your workaround! How did you manage to get a stream in both apple homekit and home assistant? Did you add the homebridge bridge in home assistant and expose the camera through home assistant? I guess you would loose the hksv feature?
I’m using a UniFi camera through UniFi Video, so Home Assistant has a camera feed from that integration, camera.ui then has an RTSP feed from UniFi Video.
Essentially the camera component isn’t linked between the two, they have their own feeds.
Is there any update on when HKSV will be added to the homekit component?
The one on Homebrige (camera ui plugin) works great but i would love to use it natively in HASS.