I made a tool to enable the Xiaomi Camera Gateway to work with RTSP without flashing a alternate firmware and therefore keeping MiHome cloud functionality working. Using the camera with Home Assistant is then fairly simple.
Seems to work fine with the camera I have (lumi.camera.aq1) but have not tested it on other xiaomi cameras.
Is there anyone here that owns a different Xiaomi P2P camera willing to test and report?
how the same things can be done in Android OS? i mean forwarding video from xiaomi camera to RTSP by android.
I have 6 new cameras still in the box, will give it a try next week and update
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hi
found that this solution worked for me (vm with ubuntu)
indicate that the macro PKG_CHECK_MODULES might be missing on your system.
This macro is part of pkg-config which you can install via apt-get install pkg-config .
Anyone using this with lumi.camera.aq1 I have integrated it but rtsp stream is very laggy and mainly only shows stills?
I use it on the Ubuntu host system and it is very smooth. Before that I tried it from docker container but it was terrible.
Thanks Ill give that a shot I was running it on a dedicated Pi 3 but should just move it over to my ubuntu server
Hi Miguel,
I know its an old topic but I just found it looking for some way to expose video stream from my Xiaomi cameras to the HA.
I did try your tool with 2 cameras:
Both are visible and works fine in Xiaomi app and both doesn’t like to work with your tool or Miio component with the following type error:
$ ./videop2proxy --ip 192.168.x.x --token 320b1362c430939608481627xxxxxxxx --rtsp 8554
Starting proxy…
Starting RTSP server on “rtsp://192.168.2.8:8554/”
(RTSP-over-HTTP tunneling is not available.)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
File “/home/snakesms/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/miio/device.py”, line 147, in send
command, parameters, retry_count, extra_parameters=extra_parameters
File “/home/snakesms/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/miio/miioprotocol.py”, line 236, in send
extra_parameters=extra_parameters,
File “/home/snakesms/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/miio/miioprotocol.py”, line 236, in send
extra_parameters=extra_parameters,
File “/home/snakesms/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/miio/miioprotocol.py”, line 236, in send
extra_parameters=extra_parameters,
File “/home/snakesms/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/miio/miioprotocol.py”, line 240, in send
raise DeviceException(“No response from the device”) from ex
miio.exceptions.DeviceException: No response from the device
Can’t read output line 1 from command: python3 -c “import miio;result = miio.device.Device(‘192.168.x.x’, ‘320b1362c430939608481627xxxxxxxx’).send(‘get_ipcprop’, [‘all’]);print(result[‘p2p_id’]);print(result[‘avID’]);print(result[‘avPass’]);”
Error connecting to camera, make sure ip and token are correct.
Topic been obtained in 2 different ways and looks the same so I’m quite confident its correct
Any ideas what else I can try to do to let it work?
Thanks in advance
Just open camera in app and it will continue to work
Doesn’t make any difference if app is open or not (in my case)
Why do you abandoned your tool? 
It was an amazing option to these limited Xiaomi Cameras…