Thanks anyway. Just to rule out the password I will change it to alphanumeric when I get home and try again. On Dahua wiki they do mention the password should not contain “#” but mine doesn’t, no mention of other special characters.
I’m using the stream: camera: integrations. I’m not running hassio so I don’t have any plugins.
Hi, same cam and same issue… Even i can’t get working ptz commands and snapshots resolution is only 640x360 (SP012 is 1280x720 capable). Did you solve this problems?
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I ended up using Blue Iris for my security cameras. It’s leagues better than HA when it comes to camera support, and integrates well with HA. Now all my cameras show up without issue in HA, since they’re being streamed from Blue Iris instead of the camera itself.
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Same experience here, but then with Synology survey system
Trying to add a Swann NVR 8580 ip camera and can’t seem to get it running in hassio. I didn’t see it in the list above. Any ideas on how to do this?
did you ever get this working?
Can you please describe what you did. I am also facing the same issue
and what type of cameras do you have?
Has anyone been able to get camera streaming working with Blue Iris->HA->Google Home-> Chromecast? I am able to create a camera with the stream source directly from the camera IP. Then I tell Google Home to show me the Front Door camera and it will display it on my Shield TV. But if I create a camera from a Blue Iris stream and tell Google Home to show it on Shield TV, the camera image comes up and plays for maybe a second, then I just get a spinning circle in the bottom left and it stays like that. I feel like I’ve tried everything.
The reason I’d like to use BI instead of the camera directly is I can create camera groups in BI, then say “Show me the outside cameras” and it will show all of my outside cameras.
edit: Of course as soon as I post this I realized something stupidly obvious. If you use VLANs at all in your home network, you need to make sure that your frontend viewers (like Google Home Hub) have access to call HA’s IP if they’re on different subnets, since the video is technically coming from HA now. After I fixed that, everything works great. D’oh.
For those using Unifi Protect, has any of you gotten that working on Google Home devices? I’ve got all the RTSP stuff setup fine. Works in the frontend well. Seems like tweaking the bitrate and FPS helps it load faster.
When I expose the cameras through the Google Assistant component, they do show up as cameras, but when I go to view them I just get a loading screen that says “Playing Smart Home Camera” and appears to be buffering. Sits there for a minute or two, then bounces back to the home screen.
Any ideas why this may be? Only caveat is I’m not using Nabu Casa, I’m managing my own SSL/hostname. Everything else exposed in the Google Assistant component functions incredibly quickly/reliably.
Component code:
- platform: generic
name: 'Front Yard (Right)'
still_image_url: http://192.168.x.y/snap.jpeg
stream_source: rtsp://192.168.a.b:7447/foobar
verify_ssl: false
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Jep same issue here 
Tried already the following things:
- generic camera component directly from reolink camera
- Reolink custom component
- generic camera component stream from MotionEye
Also not using Nabu Casa and using a reversed proxy.
Reolink, SriCam, Wyze and Android devices
Took me a while to figure this out on my LTS(Hikvision) NVR. If you go to the link that is provided when clicking where the arrow is pointing it will take you to your camera web page. You have to use the port number in this link to access the still picture for the camera. You will also need to use the login and password for the camera and not the NVR.
Can I ask if anyone who previously had issues with home assistant locking up and requiring a reboot has seen stability improve?
I tried the stream component earlier this year but it kept locking my home assistant requiring a power cycle. Home assistant has been rock solid since removing stream, even though I still have and use several cameras in home assistant.
I would love to give it a try again, especially the Google assistant integration, but I don’t want to risk it considering home assistant is responsible for my home heating now.
Were you able to get it working with your laview NVR??
Do we know what the error
Error demuxing stream: No dts in packetindicates?
Second on this, anyone solved this error? I have Wyze cams set up as ffmpeg
I have this camera too and run it well. The port is different.
I have the problem with still_Image_url too.
I have ask for a new firmware to Sannce for try fix it.
Have read through this entire thread and tried a handful of different implementations for BlueIris. I cannot seem to get BI working with the stream/generic camera components. It does work with ffmpeg, but that does not produce a quality stream.
How are people getting BI to work?