Zoneminder integration for HA *WORKING* now

All right!

After two days of gnashing teeth, I have the ZM integration working from a YAML level (ie, it doesn’t throw errors; I can see entities; the automation piece seems to work, but I think that’s just to change the entity state). What I would like to see, because I don’t quite know how to set it up, is the camera feed (I only have one, it should be simple?!?) on my default dashboard. I imagine there are three things at work, but I am completely happy to be corrected:

  1. the right kind of card (with the appropriate entity called
  2. the automation I already have, calling either the binary sensor, the camera; or BOTH
  3. something stateful happening in the ‘Developers’ section.

Help?

thanks in advance,
Peter Burris