Why can't set motion detect?

Configuration
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I have a usb camera,It can capture video with ffmpeg

    output="/tmp/sample.flv"
    va="-y -f alsa -i default -acodec aac "
    ffmpeg  -i /dev/video0  $va -pix_fmt yuv420p   $output

I installed motion :slight_smile:

sudo apt install motion

Set password in /etc/motion/motion.conf:

stream_auth_method 1
stream_authentication admin:123456

Start the motion:

sudo motion

I get an integration with Generic Camera for the use camera.

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It works fine in overview,now i want to add a motion detect in configuration.yaml:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: ffmpeg_motion
    input: http://127.0.0.1:8081/
    name: motion detect

Restart homeassistant,the binary sensor is always unavailable!

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127.0.0.1 is unlikely to be the proper IP, unless you are using a HA Core (pure python) installation.
Try with the actual IP of the host.

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1.I am using HA Core
2.replace 127.0.0.1 with the actual IP

The motion detection function still can’t take effect.
Should i add user and passwd in ffmpeg_motion,how?I added it when to make an integration with Generic Camera!

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Can you tell if http://127.0.0.1:8081/ is working out of HA?

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I fill username and password,it can sign in.

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Great, but ffmpeg_motion is expecting an actual video feed. It’s the integration that does the detection.
Is this what you are using: https://motion-project.github.io ? Then you’re mistaken.

2 options:

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I downloaded a apk named “IP Camera Viewer_7.4.7_Apkpure.apk”,installed on my old android phone,to turn my old smartphone into a webcamera,and make integration in homeassistant’s ffmpeg_motion:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: ffmpeg_motion
    name: "android smartphone camera motion"
    input: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:8554/live

All the motion can be detected.With same way,i can’t make integration for my usb camera!Why?

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Mmmm… Did you understand what I said?

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2 options:

* Pass the usb cam directly to `ffmpeg_mtion`
* Use a dedicated integration;

How can pass my usb cam directly to ffmpeg_motion?

It can’t work!

  - platform: ffmpeg_motion
    input: /dev/video0
    name: motion_directly
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  1. Don’t DM me
  2. Look at the doc, it’s literary there

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I guess this should work, IF you are on HA Core or have mapped the device to the HA container.
Unlikely to work in HAOS

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In my os:

lsusb | grep -i camera
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2bdf:0284 SN0002 HIK 1080P CAMERA
ls  /dev/video*
/dev/video0  /dev/video1

I want to pass the HIK 1080P CAMERA directly to ffmpeg_motion,googled a tutorial “integrate USB local camera to home assistant”
https://www.kincony.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1841

The main points are as below:

  1. connect with your USB camera.
  2. Enable home assistant “Advanced Mode”.
  3. “Add-ons, Backups & Supervisor” – “system” – “Host” – “Hardware” , search videox
  4. Configuration edit yaml
    camera:
  • platform: ffmpeg
    name: cam
    input: /dev/input/video0
  1. Home assistant restart
  2. Add camera to dashboard by “picture entity” card

In the youtube,

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For the step3 ,i can’t find hardware to search video!

My hass info:

Version core-2023.7.3
Installation Type Home Assistant Core
Development false
Supervisor false
Docker false
User homeassistant
Virtual Environment true
Python Version 3.11.0rc2
Operating System Family Linux
Operating System Version 5.10.0-23-amd64
CPU Architecture x86_64
Timezone Asia/Hong_Kong
Configuration Directory /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant

Home Assistant Community Store

MANAGE

GitHub API ok
GitHub Content ok
GitHub Web timeout – more info
GitHub API Calls Remaining 4962
Installed Version 1.32.1
Stage running
Available Repositories 1267
Downloaded Repositories 2

Home Assistant Cloud

MANAGE

Logged In false
Reach Certificate Server ok
Reach Authentication Server ok
Reach Home Assistant Cloud ok

Dashboards

MANAGE

Dashboards 1
Resources 0
Views 1
Mode storage

Recorder

Oldest Run Start Time 17 August 2023 at 05:17
Current Run Start Time 26 August 2023 at 10:55
Estimated Database Size (MiB) 9.51 MiB
Database Engine sqlite
Database Version 3.34.1

There are only processors and memory !I can’t search device /dev/video0 or /dev/video1,so can’t add it.

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I have enabled Advanced Mode.

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Did you try video0 or video1 ?

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In the youtube’s video,the auther can find a place to search.

“Add-ons, Backups & Supervisor” – “system” – “Host” – “Hardware” , search videox

In my homeassistant ,there is no place i can type video to search!I can search nothing!
How about in your latest version homeassistant?

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I can, but I don’t run HA Core, but HA Supervised. Could be a function of Supervisor.

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camera:
  - platform: ffmpeg
    name: usb camera1
    input: /dev/video0
  - platform: ffmpeg
    name: usb camera2
    input: /dev/input/video0

None of them can work!

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Do a ls -l /dev/video* to check permissions

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ls -al /dev/video0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Aug 26 16:53 /dev/video0
ls -al /dev/video0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Aug 26 16:53 /dev/video0

debian@debian:~$ sudo chmod 777 /dev/video0
debian@debian:~$ sudo chmod 777 /dev/video1
debian@debian:~$ sudo systemctl restart hass

It is no use,sitll can’t work!

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add your hass user to the video group

https://wiki.debian.org/SystemGroups