Struggling with multi-camera Amcrest integration

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Hi folks: After eight straight hours of struggling to integrate multiple Amcrest cameras, I am throwing in the towel. I’ve read the documentation 20x times, followed the HA provided examples to the letter, checked the forums for similar problems - and followed the provided info, I’ve passed format checks using several YAML format tools…but I’m still caught in a loop: my YAML format fails pre-start check. HA says to do “X”… but when I do X…it then says don’t do “X”…rinse-repeat:

Here is the error message:

"Invalid config for 'amcrest' at configuration.yaml, line 26: contains duplicate items: ['GATE 2', 'EAST PATIO'] for dictionary value 'amcrest', got [{'host': '10.10.10.110', 'username': 'admin', 'name': 'GATE 1', 'password': 'password', 'binary_sensors': ['motion_detected', 'crossline_detected', 'online'], 'sensors': ['sdcard'], 'port': 554}, {'host': '10.10.10.111', 'username': 'admin', 'name': 'GATE 2', 'password': 'password', 'binary_sensors': ['motion_detected', 'crossline_detected', 'online'], 'sensors': ['sdcard'], 'port': 554}, {'host': '10.10.10.151', 'username': 'admin', 'name': 'GATE 3', 'password': 'password', 'binary_sensors'..."

Here is my yaml code (in configuration.yaml): **Note: the complete section contains 20 cameras, in the interest of brevity only the first six are listed —


 Amcrest:
  - host: 10.10.10.110
    username: admin
    name: GATE 1
    password: password
    binary_sensors:
      - motion_detected
      - crossline_detected
      - online
    sensors:
      - sdcard
    port: 554
      
  - host: 10.10.10.111
    username: admin
    name: GATE 2  
    password: password
    binary_sensors:
      - motion_detected
      - crossline_detected
      - online
    sensors:
      - sdcard
    port: 554
     
  - host: 10.10.10.151
    username: admin
    name: GATE 3
    password: password
    binary_sensors:
      - motion_detected
      - crossline_detected
      - online
    sensors:
      - sdcard
    port: 554
  
  - host: 10.10.10.102
    name: GATE 2
    username: admin
    password: password
    binary_sensors:
      - motion_detected
      - crossline_detected
      - online
    sensors:
      - sdcard
    port: 554 `Preformatted text`
type or paste code here
```amcrest:
  - host: 10.10.10.110
    username: admin
    name: GATE 1
    password: password
    binary_sensors:
      - motion_detected
      - crossline_detected
      - online
    sensors:
      - sdcard
    port: 554
      
  - host: 10.10.10.111
    username: admin
    name: GATE 2  
    password: password
    binary_sensors:
      - motion_detected
      - crossline_detected
      - online
    sensors:
      - sdcard
    port: 554
     
  - host: 10.10.10.151
    username: admin
    name: GATE 3
    password: password
    binary_sensors:
      - motion_detected
      - crossline_detected
      - online
    sensors:
      - sdcard
    port: 554
  
  - host: 10.10.10.102
    name: GATE 2
    username: admin
    password: password
    binary_sensors:
      - motion_detected
      - crossline_detected
      - online
    sensors:
      - sdcard
    port: 554

Thanks in Advance for an and all helpfull assistance ! :pray:

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Just like it says in the error message you have GATE 2 twice. Probably in line 26.

3

My apologies. I was so intensely looking for a format error that I could not see the elephant standing right in front of me. After some needed sleep I was embarassed to find, as you suggested, that several cameras were repeated, a result of stupidly cut and pasting code. Thanks!

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Don’t worry we all do it. Sometimes we just need someone to point out the obvious :slight_smile:

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