Stream component failed with Hikvision Onvif camera

Configuration
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in my configuration i have:

stream:
  - platform: generic
    still_image_url: http://192.168.1.149/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture
    name: front_camera
    stream_source: rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/Streaming/Channels/101/
    username: admin
    password: my_password
    verify_ssl: false
    authentication: basic

but yet i got ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for stream: Could not install all requirements.

what are the requirements?

2

i just saw https://www.home-assistant.io/components/stream/
and ran the suggested command: sudo apt-get install -y python-dev pkg-config libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libavresample-dev libavfilter-dev

now i get another funky error: Invalid config for [stream]: expected a dictionary for dictionary value @ data[‘stream’]. Got [OrderedDict([(‘platform’, ‘generic’), (‘still_image_url’, ‘http://192.168.1.149/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture’), (‘name’, ‘front_camera’), (‘stream_source’, ‘rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/Streaming/Channels/101/’), (‘username’, ‘admin’), (‘password’, ‘my_pass’), (‘verify_ssl’, False), (‘authentication’, ‘basic’)])]. (See /home/tung/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml, line 150). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/stream/

3

i am able to see a static thumbnail of my camera now after fixing the code to be:

stream:
camera:
  - platform: generic
    still_image_url: http://192.168.1.149/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture
    name: front_camera
    stream_source: rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/Streaming/Channels/101/
    username: admin
    password: my_password
    verify_ssl: false
    authentication: basic

BUT when i click on the thumbnail, all i get is this:
image

it keeps loading and loading but still no video, no motion. any idea?

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4

finally was able to see the cameras when i config the camera itself to output MJPEG on the substream. BUT now the NVR that is directly connected to the TV cannot see the substream. meaning i cannot see all 8 cameras at the same time on the TV. if i want to see something, i have to double click on a camera to enlarge it. can only see 1 camera at a time :frowning: ouch