Hello there,
I am fairly new to HomeAssistant and I am trying to use my old IPhone as an IP camera with the app ‘iPCamera’.
Following the great description from @mikeg1130 on
I am now able to pull an image from the IPhone each time a motion sensor picks up motion and I show this image on my chromecast enabled TV.
However, I would like to show a live stream instead of the still image.
I wrote a script as follows, but I get an error message, that the camera does not support
play_stream: “camera.iphone6 does not support play_stream service”. I am a bit puzzled, because the Lovelace UI does show me a live stream, after I click on the still-image preview. So it should somehow be possible to get a stream.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
scripts.yaml:
'1579461249737':
alias: Chromecast_playCamera
sequence:
- data:
entity_id: camera.iphone6
media_player: media_player.chromecast_livingroom
entity_id: camera.testcam
service: camera.play_stream
configuration.yaml:
stream:
ffmpeg:
ffmpeg_bin: /usr/bin/ffmpeg
camera:
- platform: mjpeg
name: iphone6
mjpeg_url: http://192.168.0.13/live