Sharing a camera feed from one home assistant instant to another

Configuration
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Can camera_proxy exchange between HA instances still be done with the new authorization

I’m looking to display images from a remote HA through a VPN tunnel. http only if possible.

The documentation for Generic Camera integration seems to be out of date

If you are running more than one Home Assistant instance (let’s call them the ‘host’ and ‘receiver’ instances) you may wish to display the camera feed from the host instance on the receiver instance. You can use the [REST API] to access the camera feed on the host (IP address 127.0.0.5) and display it on the receiver instance by configuring the receiver with the following:

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: Host instance camera feed
    still_image_url: https://127.0.0.5:8123/api/camera_proxy/camera.live_view

I’ve tried everything I can think of, templates with mqtt entity_picture links (that work in browsers), long-lived tokens, trusted networks.

Right now I’m using a workaround with saved captured images, but it should’t be this hard?

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I’ve put together a quick and dirty custom component to do what I needed. mqtt-api-camera
Not sure how robust it is, as I’m still working on setting up a decent development environment, but it’s working for me, so thought I would share.

I think it is probably possible to do this with the Generic IP Camera component Templating the still_image_url with a MQTT Sensor, but it’s so difficult to debug. The custom component was the easier option.

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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…any conclusions with this? It may be some authorizaton and/or proxying issue, just needs to know where to look :slight_smile:

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I use the HA Add-on motion-eye on one HA instance, and the motion-eye integration on 2 HA instances. Streaming video available on both HA instances.

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I’m still using my custom component with mqtt statestream. Works fine for me, especially as I have access to the remote HA, but not the remote cameras.

Have not looked at “Remote Home Assistant”.

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Well, that obviously could do the trick. Thanks.