Stream Component: Confirmed Cameras and Configurations

Configuration
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I do see the same delay if i use the xiaomi camera stream directly to google without ha
So i think it is a google thing that causes the delay

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And the wyze cam for google is now in beta and they also report a big delay

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Re to stop casting @sleeepy2… so (showing complete ignorance here), is casting a pull operating or push?

I.e. when I do the play_stream, is that a request sent to Chromecast (or whatever) tht then initiates a pull operating against a service simultaneously offered up by HA? Which stays up as long as it keeps pulling?

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wyze is using their clould servers (aws) as middle man for their google streaming. So once they roll out rtsp you can just use HA for it.

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@ptdalen media_player.turn_off just stops the casting, at least for me. It goes back to the slide show. I was actually hoping it would turn off my TV, but it didn’t

@Linwood Yes. lol, I have no idea.
I think when you do play_stream it instructs the chrome cast to look up and pull the stream by itself. Once it has started HA doesn’t have anything to do with it. I think HA is basically saying hey, look at the stream I found, you play it. then I think the turn turn_off command just instructs the chrome cast to stop playing the feed.

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Thank you very much, it is working with your code on my both hikvision cam, H264+ and H265+ !

EDIT: little bug, When I click the first time on the camera I have a blank page so I need to close it and click again on the camera and it works.

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How to get it stream on my androidtv box.
I am using airscreen on my android tv box
and also i am having samsung tv, how to stream on both my device?
Please guide.
Thanks

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Did you also have to drop the resolution down to 720p to get this to work?

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It drops to 720p automatically.

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Just in case someone has an LTS camera.

This is working for me. I am not sure why I have to have user:password in the stream source. If I remove it it will not work (so it doesn’t use the listed user and password in yaml).

camera: 
  - platform: generic
    name: garagaecam
    still_image_url: http://ipaddress/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture
    stream_source: rtsp://username:password@ipaddress/HighResolutionVideo
    username: username
    password: !secret cam_password
    verify_ssl: false
    authentication: basic
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0.91 seems to have broken my Foscam cameras. I see that stream support was added for them as a beta fix, but all of them just open spinning windows when I attempted to use them. 3 different camera models, all of which I can stream from VLC

As per a previous post I found, I ended up having to install these two packages to get it to work properly:
apt install libavformat-dev
apt install libavdevice-dev

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With 0.91 the live stream is immediate and works perfectly with my Hikvision cameras

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could you paste your code please, how many cameras are you using for your hikvision as mine doesnt work and i have it set out like so:

- platform: generic
  still_image_url: http://192.168.0.8:82/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/100/picture
  stream_source: rtsp://admin:********@192.168.0.8:554/Streaming/Channels/102/
  name: testcam
  username: admin
  password: *********
  authentication: digest

but that is only one camera and it doesnt work,

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On my hikvision, 102 is mjpeg. 101 is H.264.

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The user name and password is used for the still image, not the stream.
I found that out the hard way.

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what kind of camera? I think it depends if you have authentication on for RTSP or have it disabled. In my case, it is on, and only allows basic authentication. I want authentication as I don’t want anyone to be able to browse on my camera if they get in my network (although I guess it isn’t a big deal now that I think about it).

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I think the user name and password fields have nothing to do with the stream.
Your stream requires the username:password in it if you have authentication on. It doesn’t use the user name password.

The still image uses the user name password if authentication is on.

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Understood. That seems to be how it works, but I wish it wasn’t how it works. :slight_smile:

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I’ve posted some further information on Unifi Protect here about setting the Unifi Camera credentials. I have confirmed that Unifi is now working using the stream component using the same config you have previously posted.

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I am not following? Camera.snapshot? Then you already have a working camera… No, I want a snapshot url from Synology, but Synology doesn’t provide that in a single url, like the rtsp stream