Shinobi Camera Component

Feature Requests
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Just follow these steps: http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installationguide/ubuntu.html

I knew nothing about linux before I started configuring Zoneminder… hence me starting this post off with the comment on learning curves, but if you simply follow nthe steps in the site above you should get it working, it then just takes a bit of tinkering to configure your cameras, but ONVIF should work if you have ONVIF capable camera’s

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Shinobi or zoneminder?

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Following the instructions by the letter

On
systectl restart mysql

stays there forever (10 minutes now)

Normal?

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pm me and we can try and get it sorted for you… this post is regarding trying to get a shinobi component in HA… which I suppose your struggles wth Zoneminder supports :slight_smile:

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Ok I managed to instyall zoneminder and shinobi.

SO now I have 3: Blue Iris, the best but my i3 NUC is not powerful enough.

YOu prefer shinobi?

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Currently ZM is the only one that has a HA Component.

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Any update about adding https://shinobi.video?
(I’ve been trying to use Zoneminder, but failed miserably and Shinobi looks way cooler and more modern)

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Any updates/interest in adding in Shinobi to HA? Zoneminder is very outdated and a hassle to install. I’d love to see an alternative added to Home Assistant!

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Scratch that :wink: I’ve also tested MotionEye and it does exactly what I want, is easy to setup and integration can be done using MQTT.

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There is no way that a PI will handle 5+ camera’s, but if you don’t need that many and it works for you then great, but I still need something with a bit more umph… :slight_smile:

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After moving house and finally (6 months later…) looking back in to getting something to ingest all my cameras i’ll be setting up CCTV software on a VM on my NAS.

Did lots of research before moving, tried out a few platforms and at the time found Zoneminder far too resource intensive and over complicated for what it was.
Shinobi on the otherhand was a breeze to set up and definitely a nicer looking GUI. Plus all the motion tracking stuff is pretty ace!

Seems since my last time looking in to it there have been a lot of updates and improvements to Shinobi yet not much movement on Zoneminder… So I know which platform i’ll be going with.

So, in short, next awesome piece of news would be a Shinobi component in HA…
+1 on this feature request from me. May give it a crack myself If I have the time

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As a workaround you can add Shinobi feeds to HA using API: https://shinobi.video/docs/api
for example:

- platform: generic
  name: Camera1
  still_image_url: http://[shinobihost]:8080/[apikey]/jpeg/[groupkey]/[monitorid]/s.jpg
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Indeed. Though using the motion triggers in HA would be very interesting.

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+1 too! Just starting to setup shinobi and would love to integrate it with HA

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I have started to implement a component for Shinobi. So far automatically adding the cameras as generic cameras (as proposed by @yllar) is working. I couldn’t get the motion feature to work properly, so I can not test this atm. Will put that on github when I finished it (and have to find the proper process for a PR so it gets added in a future version)

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1 word… awesome! let me know if you need help testing…

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Please have a try! https://github.com/felixsteghofer/homeassistant_custom_components
I think it is best to track issues in github but I will also have an eye on this thread here.

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give me a couple of days…

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Looking good!
I shall give it a test some time tomorrow.
Did make a start on this project myself but haven’t got anywhere near as far as you have so I’ll abandon my fork.

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This is great! I will try it and test asap.