RTSP Cameras in Home Assistant!!

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This video a tutorial on how to setup rtsp cameras in Home Assistant.
Here are a few links to get you started....
github.com/burnshomeautomatio...
www.home-assistant.io/integra...
www.ispyconnect.com/sources.aspx
(0:00) Intro
(1:31) Let's start by going over some prerequisites.
(3:19) Now we are ready to setup the cameras in Home Assistant.
sudo vi cameras.yaml
- platform: generic
name: Front Door
still_image_url: '10.10.10.9/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture'
username: camerauser
password: camerapass
stream_source: 'rtsp://camerauser:camerapass@10.10.10.9:8554/Streaming/Channels/101'
Once all that is in there, jump over to the web interface where you can check the configuration to make sure there is no errors and then reload the generic ip camera entities.
(5:40) Lastly follow along with the video to see it in action!!
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[@rudyhenderson5002]

All of a sudden he is editing the "camera.yaml" file. Huh? Does one create this file? Where in HA? Sort of lost me here.

[@Gaatech]

Nice to see you have escaped from your car. Good video

[@BurnsHA]

LOL, thanks for the comment!

[@sledgeHammerRulez]

btw ispy is great sw and makes it possible to send mqtt messages when detecting motion ...

[@gretske]

I am missing something. After you configured everything and reloaded the generic camera integration, how did you get the video stream into Lovelace? I did what you said, but the stream did not magically appear. What Lovelace UI card did you use to get the stream to display?

[@BurnsHA]

I am using the picture glances card, but you can see when you go to add cards in lovelace, there are several different choices.

[@n2ocharged]

Gene, I'm with you, this doesn't make sense to me... as someone who is pretty tech savvy but knows nothing about HA, following this "tutorial" only made me more confused... I understand what he's trying to say but he's using 3 different secrets but never explains WHERE to use them. I know below he said to use the Picture glance card, but it's asking me for the image path, yet in his video he's showing a "!Secret camera_" and never shows how to set up the card.

[@thedeadbuzzard]

kinda unrelated to the video do you have a video or post that you show what's set up on your different dashboards? Also, are you running this on a raspberry pi or something else ? I was looking at the sidebar integration

[@BurnsHA]

so I run my home assistant setup currently just on a ubuntu server running docker. I don't know that I have anything that shows exactly that, but you are just wanting to know about the config that I have setup for the sidebar?

[@thedeadbuzzard]

Tips for getting the other processes on the sidebar was what I was asking

[@lucamarcio4110]

Hi and thanks for your videos! What indoor/outdoor camera do you recommend for a reasonable budget, please? Thanks!

[@BurnsHA]

some of that depends, what is your end goal? Are you just wanting cameras that you will be able to drop into Home Assistant?

[@lucamarcio4110]

@@BurnsHA for the outdoor monitoring I need something reliable, Ethernet connected, 20 meters night vision (at least) and obviously fully integrated into HA. For the indoor something simple (maybe PTZ), 1080p, Ethernet and fully integrated into HA. Somebody recommended Imou since they are ONVIF...your recommendation, please? Thanks.

[@lucamarcio4110]

@BurnsHA Can you help me further on this topic, please? Thank you!

[@TheRwdawg2]

As far as resources go; is it better to use RTSP or Onvif?

[@BurnsHA]

I think its more preference. the onvif platform requires ffmpeg if im not mistaken. It just depends on if you want to use it or not. I haven't really played with the onvif component in home assistant, so not really sure.

[@line2bassman80]

Nice but missing some vital information for the likes of us that are still trying to get to grips with the basics. Firstly, I don't have "reload camera entities" in the server controls. So do we need something added in or integrated first? Then, I didn't have a cameras.yaml so created it and put in some lines like yours. Does that go in the config folder? Ok, so I restarted the whole server and I don't see any new devices or entities. You didn't show what card you added to the dashboard or the entity configuration for it. Please show the whole procedure on videos. Many thanks.

[@line2bassman80]

Ok, for us noobies, I figured out that the configuration.yaml needs to have a line in it to include in the cameras.yaml like this: camera: !include cameras.yaml Then reboot HA server and you will see that the Server Controls tab of Configuration now has a "Reload generic IP camera entities" button added.

[@compspud]

@@line2bassman80 Cheers for that. Im also trying to get to grips with HA. Hit me up with a DM and we can work together?

[@rebe7800]

Maybe zoom in on your screen will help!!

[@TheDarmach]

Can you add generic camera to an area? I'd like to use it as area image

[@BurnsHA]

Are you talking about an area defined in Home Assistant?

[@xandravialex3213]

so, there is somehow showing a "reload generic ip camera entities"... only if you open new file cameras.yaml?

[@BurnsHA]

not sure I follow you, what does your config look like?

[@MrBrettStar]

Where is has username and password do we just enter the details directly?

[@BurnsHA]

you can enter it directly, or you can add it to your secrets.yaml file and reference them that way if you want.

[@dempsey3]

yaml ?????? you skipped a ton of stuff , what is yaml and where is it ,

[@BurnsHA]

yaml is where most of your files are stored for your configuration of home assistant. But you can do alot of it from the web interface of home assistant. Are you running hassio? If so, you can edit the files from the gui by adding the File Editor add-on.

[@bjornalinder5699]

Yep! A lot of steps skipped in this one…

[@MrBrettStar]

Is it a new file that you created or did you edit existing file?

[@franktechniek]

@@BurnsHA His name is John, not hassio. Why do you need to be running to edit files..

[@markstewart7559]

Also missed how you add the camera to the dashboard 🤷‍♂️

[@Jay-hr9ci]

Where is the cameras.yaml file?

[@BurnsHA]

you can break out your configuration.yaml file into multiple files..... give this a shot! www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/splitting_configuration/

[@tinkerer67]

Incomplete. You skipped the most important parts.

[@gloveandmitten]

This is missing far too much information to be a useful video. If you are new to HA just go look for another tutorial this will just confuse you more.

[@BurnsHA]

sorry to hear that, is there something in particular i can help you with?