Home Assistant ANNKE integration - ONVIF & RTSP

[@tovmax1]

Yes, I think that night color is essential, because almost all bad things are done at night.

[@KPeyanski]

Very well said, Max! For good or for bad that is true...

[@dudefromkeene]

Thanks took me a bit but I have the stream inside of HA now

[@pr19580]

Well done, Kiril - this is just what I was looking for! I bought a bunch of Annke C800s and your ONVIF instructions worked perfectly. Thanks!

[@KPeyanski]

Glad I could help and great to hear! Are you using a NVR?

[@pr19580]

@@KPeyanski I bought seven C800s on Black Friday so I'll probably use Blue Iris or something similar as I have plenty of space on my NAS. I'm waiting for the installer to come and mount them, but it will take some time as we are still in lockdown here in Ireland.

[@KPeyanski]

Sounds Great, just have in mind that Blue Iris can be CPU/Memory intensive so it is possible to affect your NAS performance

[@pr19580]

@@KPeyanski My NAS is a Synology so I'll run Blue Iris on my Windows Server which has plenty of horsepower. Unless I change my mind and use someting else like Shinobi or Zonne Minder under Linux!

[@KPeyanski]

It seems that you have a nice setup so good luck with whatever you choose ;)

[@ngoctaiquach3144]

Please help me fix the error "This entity does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the UI. See the documentation for more details" when adding a H.265 standard Yoosee brand camera to the home assistant. Thank you very much!

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@KPeyanski]

More than welcome 🙏 I’m interesting what do you think about true full color night vision, Ron?

[@Bermatingen]

thanks for you vid, if its possible to make multiple streams (5 ore more ) on one dashboard site, did you test it, i ask because i want switch my smart home House command system to Home Assistant because my oldd system have only mjepg, verry bad system only all 2-3 seconds a new picture, ich have manny annke ip cams and wish to integrated now the RTSP Stream : ) Thx Tomislav ✌

[@patricklayton9748]

unable to get RTSP to work. My camera iOS hooked up the Annie NVR, if that makes a difference. I tried every method ankle has posted on their help page.

[@richardmulder6829]

Very informative video, thanks for that. Is there also a solution in HA with Onvif to play video without three seconds delay?

[@hija97]

I cannot view my camera stream. When I try to add a new entity, HA would say "ERROR stream never started". Any help is appreciated!

[@azatecas]

great video, i have bought annke cameras for family members and they are great. can i run the software on a docker container and have it store on a NAS?

[@KPeyanski]

Thanks, I guess you can, but you have to cook your own Docker image. BTW are you using a NVR?

[@jqzIII]

Cool video. Hate the chapters though. PITA on Android to scroll n seek. Oh well. Question... Should the onvif main stream HA entity show the actual video stream. Mine doesn't. My Ankke url seems to work though. In VLC and elsewhere in HA via MotionEye. Thanks.

[@KPeyanski]

Which chapters? And yes ONVIF stream should work in HA!

[@jqzIII]

The ones that did show up in the red dot/scroll bar at the bottom of the screen when my device was in landscape mode. Touching the scroll bar/dot made the app jump into portrait mode and popped up the video info/chapters text area. I couldn't stop it. Drove me nuts. Didn't happen today. Maybe it was a temporary KZbin glitch.

[@balczezzz]

Very informative video, thanks! I have the Annke setup with cameras "behind" the NVR - different subnet. I managed to get the RTSP stream working, but I am struggling with ONVIF. Is there any way to get them to work in my NVR setup?

[@KPeyanski]

As far as I remember it is not possible to access the camera stream using ONVIF if the cameras are behind ANNKE NVR. You can only add ONVIF cameras to the ANNKE NVR but you cannot use ONVIF to access them after that. BTW Glad you like the video ;)

[@balczezzz]

@@KPeyanski It's a pity as this for sure should be technically doable. Anyway, thank you for confirming and creating really valuable content!

[@patricklayton9748]

Old comment, but if you are able to, could you share how you were able to get the RTSP to work with the cameras behind the NVR?

[@balczezzz]

@@patricklayton9748 Hi, this is the setup that got my cameras into HA. LOGIN and PASSWORD - these are credentials for the NVR IP - also NVR's - platform: generic name: CCTV still_image_url: LOGIN:PASSWORD@IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_NVR/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture stream_source: rtsp://LOGIN:PASSWORD@IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_NVR:554/Streaming/Channels/102 I chose to stream a lower quality substream (102) due to connection limitations in my case. If you want the main stream, just change to 101. Next camera would be 201 and 202 respectively. Note that new version of HA will convert this configuration.yaml setup to a UI-based setup for generic camera. Hope I was able to help.

[@patricklayton9748]

@@balczezzz thanks for getting back to me so quick. This is actually what I’d do but I did the generic camera integration. Have you tried the hikvision HAC integration. Yet

[@reesecox9889]

I have a C800 and I am new to HomeAssistant. I can connect with VLC like you demonstrate so I think the cameras are setup right but in the overview of home assistant the two streams show a two tone grey box and says "idle". Any idea? # Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc) default_config: # Text to speech tts: - platform: google_translate group: !include groups.yaml automation: !include automations.yaml script: !include scripts.yaml scene: !include scenes.yaml ffmpeg: camera: - platform: ffmpeg name: ANNKE_C800_sub # substream = small window input: -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://admin:password@192.168.1.11:554/H264/ch1/main/av_stream - platform: ffmpeg name: ANNKE_C800_main # main stream = big window input: -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://admin:password@192.168.1.11:554/H264/ch1/sub/av_stream

[@markmceathron2013]

you ever get this resolved? I get the same issues

[@fuzetech99]

is there a way to stream the onvif output (video) to my google nest hub. i want it so i can say show camera and my google nesthub wil display the rtsp stream . or when doorbell button is push the nest hub shows me the front camera so i can see who is in front of the door.

[@KPeyanski]

Sorry, I don't know that

[@EsotericArctos]

Have you tried the Reolink integration in Home Assistant? It seems to eliminate the need for all the manual camera setup. I haven't seen on for Annke yet though..... I may have missed it. I find using the camera feed from that saved mucking around in YAML. Some cameras don't send proper ONVIF motion events. My Reolink's don't send ONVIF motion events either. That may be why Home Assistant did not detect them. Either that or motion detection in the camera is not setup right.

[@KPeyanski]

Yes, and I also have a video about it. And exactly as you said ONVIF sensors are not detected in Reolink cam neither. Still don’t know what is the real reason...

[@keeptalking100]

@@KPeyanski I got the motion detection working on my Hikvision camera (ANNKE are rebadged Hikvision cameras). You need to enable motion detection in the configuration settings of the camera. Both "MyMotionDetectorRule Cell Motion Detection" and "VideoSource_1 Motion Alarm" sensors change from 'Clear' to 'Detected' when there is motion.

[@KPeyanski]

Wow that’s great. Many thanks for sharing this I will test it later as well and will update the video description and my article with your findings. Just perfect 👌

[@PersonXes]

And if that doesn't work what should definitely work is to flash the right hikvision firmware for that camera on the ankke and then use the hikvision integration of home Assistant

[@pr19580]

@@PersonXes I've got the motion detection working also, what's the advantage of the Hikvision firmware? Is it worth the risk of bricking the camera?