I had a pair of Amcrest IP cameras that I had working in HA but then had to send them back for repair (firmware issue). I got them back and all set up again but they just will not display in HA.
The first one is running on WiFi so I thought perhaps the performance was not good enough so the second one is working on Ethernet and it too will now show in HA. Granted there were some upgrades to HA while they were out for repair, so what changed?
I saw another thread dealing with a similar issue in which the cameras were not working since v.0.37. I am on v.0.39.3. I deleted the Amcrest items in the deps folder and upgraded HA and the amcrest stuff was reinstalled but it did not correct the issue.
Anyone have any thoughts or ideas on how to get this working again? What am I missing? I did not change the configuration file, I just commented out the parts that dealt with the cameras, so nothing has changed there. I do see the cameras in the entity list, however.
@StormStrikes could you share the error that you are getting?
I’m aware of a live streaming issue on 0.39.x version. The cameras display only 3 or 4 seconds of live streaming and then stop. Downgrading the aiohttp==1.2 makes the deal. I’m currently investigating this problem with and I might ping @pvizeli to talk about it.
However you should see the snapshot fine displayed at the webUI. If you are getting any traceback, could you share with us please?
I am getting no errors and I do have the cameras set to the snapshot streaming source. I also am not using the all in one installer. I manually installed HA on a server and am running it from there. Everything else is working as it should.
@StormStrikes how about if we try a screen sharing session to troubleshoot this. If you want, we can try a teamviewer to see if we can get this fixed. Please let me know if you like the idea.
Excellent! I will try and do that here soon. If you are up this late (well at least from my time perspective) then I will try and touch base with you after I get off work one night.
I just got an Amcrest IP2M-841W, and tried adding it to Home Assistant and ran into this issue with the live feed hanging up after a few seconds. It was doing this on HA version 0.41 and now still on 0.42. Is there any information that might be helpful in getting this problem solved? I’d really like to use my new camera.
@shivan you can try doing pip3 install aiohttp==1.2 but a lot of the new frontend is using the newer aiohttp version and I would not recommend to downgrade it on your production HA instance.
Do you see any traceback or error after a few seconds when the streaming freezes?
Yes, that is exactly what happens. I don’t have the error on hand as I have disabled the camera in HA. I’m actively using the camera and adding it back into HA wrecks the picture quality on the camera.