Stream Component: Confirmed Cameras and Configurations

Configuration
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Not every device can play the stream, I think only cast devices have been confirmed as of now.

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@petro

I have tried both the main and sub stream

@dshokouhi

When you turn on stream and enable a stream on a camera, the web UI forces you to use the new stream methodā€¦ When I click on my camera now in google chrome it launches a video player widget instead of the web window slide show.

163

It works really neat but I donā€™t have any audio (RTSP stream from Synology). Is this supported?

164

It looks like it works in VLC although it takes a bit to load up. Maybe there is just something goofy in the settings or its a bit much for the Raspberry Pi to push through? Iā€™m not sure how streams work but I would assume its all going through the Piā€™s hardware at some point

165

No audio yet

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166

Hello everyone,

first of all I want to thank you for this component that works wonderfully since the transition to HA 0.90.1.

it streams the video from Synology and itā€™s ok with VLC.

However, I want to send the video to my openlec / kodi without success.

I read on the kodi forum that m3u8 format was not supported.

Si i have ā€œeditedā€ hls.py that it generates a m3u file instead of m3u8 and it works but only 1 or 2 seconds.

Do you have this problem too? If so, what is the solution for reading a m3u8 file?

In advance thank you for your help!

167

RTSP URLā€™s for my XMEYE AHD cameras connected to a DVR with IP 192.168.1.10:

rtsp://192.168.1.10/user=admin_password=tlJwpbo6_channel=1_stream=0.sdp

change the ip and channel according with the ip of the DVR and the number of the connected camera the stream component works pretty well ( some artefact but itā€™s ok) i cantā€™ find the still image url: can someone help me?
could be possible reduce the size of the streaming ? ( for example 640 x 480)

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168

Hi,

Iā€™m using a Foscam cam model FI9853EP (which does not appear on ispyconnect list). But I have the rtsp link that allows to open the live stream in VLC, it follows this pattern: rtsp://user:passwd@ip:port/videoMain.
When I try to open the stream, I have the following error: ERROR (stream_worker) [libav.rtsp] method DESCRIBE failed: 401 Unauthorized. I tried removing the username and password from the url and setting them in the conf file with the same result.
Any idea how I can fix that?
Thanks.

169

Confirmed working. User and password in plain text. Not base64

Dahua DH-SD22204T-GN
Firmware: 2.622.0000000.3.R.T4.484

- platform: generic
  still_image_url: "http://192.168.1.XXX/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi"
  stream_source: !secret stream
  username: user
  password: !secret dahuapw
  verify_ssl: false
  authentication: digest

Since the stream link has to have user and pw hardcoded, I put the link in secret.yaml:

stream: rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=00

170

This sounds like your username and password are wrong for accessing the stream.

171

Thanks @hunterjm for answering. Yes, it looks like but either following configurations give the same behavior while opening the url in VLC works.
Conf1:

camera:
  - platform: generic
    stream_source: rtsp://user:[email protected]:88/videoMain
    still_image_url: http://192.168.1.153:88/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=user&pwd=pass
    name: EntrƩe

Conf2:

camera:
  - platform: generic
    stream_source: rtsp://192.168.1.153:88/videoMain
    still_image_url: http://192.168.1.153:88/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=user&pwd=pass
    name: EntrƩe
    username: user
    password: pass

Is there any way to test?
Thanks.

172

Just installed 0.90.2 on my pi and tested 1080p streams via the UniFi NVR. They now play without any green artifacts.

Great job!
-Jan

173

I canā€™t get my Hikvision cams to work. They play fine in VLC player but HA is giving me this error;

2019-03-27 14:42:13 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.view] Serving
/api/hls/8e26f1d47690a83b238bd99de5bffd752327a5f18af6e6f2c73a9623e901cca6/playlist.m3u8 to 172.16.1.150 (auth: False)
2019-03-27 14:42:13 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.stream] Started stream: rtsp://172.16.1.10:554

I tried many different authetication setups (including in the URL) but no luck. HTTP works fine BTW and like I said RTSP in VLC player works also fine. My cams are all 4K (DS-2CD2785FWD-IZS)

174

Neither of those are errors, and by themselves are indicators that it should be working. What else comes up in your logs after that?

175

nothing, I get the ā€œstreamā€ window but the "hourglas"does not apear.

Maybe because the cams are 4K ? I will try to revert to 1080p

edit: 1080p does not solve the problem

PROBLEM SOLVED: I was using 265+ when switching to just 264+ it works

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176

Hi all, anyone with working config for Dlink cameras? I have a DCS-942 and a DCS-5222, tryed but donā€™t know if the settings were right, the stream did not appeared. If I have a base for setting then I can experiment, using Onvifer app on the phone I found the stream url in rtsp that I can play in VLC, is it with user:password@urlofthestream

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177

I am able to get the reolinks to work but only if I use the low resolution stream and I have to do it once then push it a second time to actually get it to stream. The first will just load forever. Anyone else have similar issues?

178

Yes, if you scroll up you will find that I am having the same issue of having to load it twice for the Reolink cameras.

Both streams work about the same for me but I am running hass.io on a VM the main stream takes longer to load and more processing power.

179

Working with:
Dlink dcs-2132l/dcs-2132l-es/dcs-2330

If https enabled, and certificate invalid like my es cameras, set verify_ssl to false, otherwise not necessary. Also have to use https in the still_image_url.

You can pick live1/ live2/ or live3.sdp
My live1 is h264 in the camera settings (not sure it matters)
2132l/2330

  - platform: generic
    name: A Camera
    still_image_url: http://ip/image/jpeg.cgi
    stream_source: rtsp://user:pass@ip:554/live1.sdp
    username: !secret camera_user
    password: !secret camera_password

2132l-es

  - platform: generic
    name: Another Camera
    still_image_url: https://ip/image/jpeg.cgi
    stream_source: rtsp://user:pass@ip:554/live1.sdp
    username: !secret camera_user
    password: !secret camera_password
    verify_ssl: false
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Equipment:

1 Luma 500 4-channel NVR
2 Wirepath 550 Series
  - 640 x 480 10fps H.264
1 Hikvision DS-2CD2122F-I
  - 1280 x 720 10fps H.264

Camera Config:

  - platform: generic
    still_image_url: !secret http_url_garage
    stream_source: !secret rtsp_url_garage
    name: parking
    verify_ssl: false

  - rtsp://usr:pwd@ip:port/Streaming/Channels/301/ # rtsp url format
  - http://usr:pwd@ip:port/wps-cgi/jpg/image.cgi?camera=3 # jpg url format

Getting the secrets url right and restarting HA several times got it working. Thanks to hunterjm for helping me through it.