Do you feel that your camera stream has delays? Then try this method to speed up the live stream of your security camera! Let me know in the comments if this worked for you as well!
Hey. Do you have any HIKVisonm cameras ? i did all steps and i cant see stream in RTSPtoWEB Dashboard (i see stream in VLS for example its mean url is correct) Thx for any help in advance
I tried this and it worked fine locally. However, I am unable to show the live feed on dashboard remotely. I already had a live feed using reolink integration which has been working fine. After installing this it doesnt work when accessing remotely. When I disable the webRTC the live stream on dashboard works. When I am at home wifi the streaming works brilliantly using when webRTC enabled. Any thoughts?
Thank you so much for taking the time to walk us through the process. I'm happy to say that I was able to get my Eufy camera connected with HA because of this video. The only issue is that it seems unreliable. Basically, it works for a few minutes, then freezes. Might just be mine, so I intend to continue to mess with it in order to have it functioning the way it is intended.
This is amazing. After I got webrtc up and running it found all my reolink cameras already integrated in home assistant. All my cameras load so much faster now.
I'm a dumb. I was driving myself crazy trying to add another camera after I had added one days before. I was missing the "This image looks good" box and just hitting submit. I know it's all on me, but so many other videos I watched just glossed over the add your camera part. Your thorough video showed me how I was being an idiot. Thank you for this!
Wow, wat een verschil! Echt geweldig! Gebruik de camera's om een ijsvogelbroedsel in de tuin te volgen en de vertraging en 3 fps waren erg irrtant, dit is top!
Nice tutorial, thank you ! My 2 Reolink cameras where already installed and I just add to install the addon, and configure it. When in the 8083 page, if your camera doesn't appear, just wait for a couple of minutes.
Tried and followed the tutorial. Very good and to the point. It works when viewing the the Camera on the internal network but not when from outside the network. This is both with Web browser and the HA app om my mobile
Thank you very much for the tutorial, Ed. Quick question, before I decided whether I would have a use case for this. I am using a generic camera stream for my baby monitor, which does not have audio. Does it have audio when configured as WebRTC? Thank you
Another great video thank you. Is it possible to use Reolink Cameras via a Reolink NVR? RTSP and ONVIF are open from network settings on the NVR but can't seem to get any cameras to display in RTSPtoWeb.
Once again , great tutorial! This really works a lot faster. Now i'm only trying to find a way to make the video stream cast faster to my google nest hub, when someone rings my reolink doorbell.
If you have camera's installed, connected to a DVR, what do you do? Dou you integrate the DVR, or try to connect to the sub-stream of each individual camera?
Nice for the guide. But i noticed a problem with RTSP WEBRTC when the addon is added to HA it stops the ability to use the media tab in HA to stream cameras to GH displays. ive got about 5 cameras and all stopped showing as cameras
Thanks for the guide, added my reolink doorbell camera, however there is no audio. Is there a way to fix that? I ran all 4 different version of the stream but they didn't have audio.
Thanks for yet another useful video. The amount of work you put into these videos is unbelievable. Much appreciated! Now on the subject: Is this solution also possible for Ring system doorbells?
Thanks for an awesome tutorial! Got all working except the last step. Camera (stream) are showing fine in the RTSPtoWEB dashboard in all four protocols. But when added to HA dashboard it only shows a snapshot image and doesn't update :( Any idea where I messed up?
The delayed cam feed on my displays has been a real frustration for me. Thank you. I've had to set up a 2nd Generic Camera as the Frigate integration doesn't like this but not an issue.
Thanks for the video. Once you have the camera video feed in hass, would you also install the manufacturers integration for any other sensors you might require? Or would you use the webrtc feed for some other sensors?
Hi, another great one, thanks. I had trouble adding my tapo and unifi cameras to the generic camera integration so I wentold school camerea setup via yaml and it's working great so far. The caviat here is that we should expect a bit of a load on memory depending on how many cameras you have in your system. I guess there is no free lunch right? anyway, the fast load of the video stream worth the resources in my opnion.
Thanks for another good video. My brother asked me for help to get 2 cameras for outdoor use on his house. One requirement he have is no monthly payments (subscrition fees). He want to buy his hardware and thats it. I have strongly recommended Home Assistant and do the same thing you showed in the video. He wishes for is that the cameras runs on batteries and using WIFI with RTSP. But i cant find any cameras with those specs. What i have understood is that RTSP using more power and drain the battery pretty fast. I told my brother that, but he still want me to check if i can find any cameras. Do you know any cameras? I am going to talk to him again about this and i just realized that he has a Attic Space where he can pull shielded network cables (cat6 or cat6e) to the cameras. Hopefully he dont need to "upgrade" the cables for many many years.
Hello, I'm just getting back into this after my HA wiped out my system. The Web2RTC repository is no longer being supported. Is there another way of implementing the Generic webcam into HA? - thanks, your work is fantastic and really helpful!
What did you find was the main advantages of using Generic Camera over other camera integrations? Just curious as I use Synolgy and like the way it picks up the cameras, but I don't like the delay
Thanks for the detailed explaination. I live in NL and what camera do you suggest for the front door and for surveillance what I can integrate with HA with the explanation you have given? Thank you.
Thank you so much. Finally my camera works with a minimum of delay. I am very happy now. Please, how can i activate the audio of the camera, now? I use a Tapo C110 Thank you
Ok I have noob question. I set up everything, works good, but now I want external access. I read there are two options: STUN server or exclude substream from WebRTC. I don't know how to do that. Could someone describe me (step by step)?
I do not really understand ... as I have my cameras installed under "MJPEG Camera" as well as "Generic Camera". I can find both entities in HA ... now that I cahve configured WebRTC ... do you choose still another entity as camera ? Is there an entity created by WebRTC ??
Thank you! I have a lot of troubkes with some wyze v3 cameras. Do you have some videos on wyze+webrtc+frigate? Otherwise do you mind to make an in-depht video on the subject?
Thank you so much for another great video. My Eufy Outdoor Cam Pro cameras don't have a still image URL, but just the RTSP one. What can I do to generate a snapshot from the last stream? Any help is welcome, thank you in advance.
Thanks. I did not test it, but maybe you can point to a "fake" snapshot that you store in the www folder of Home Assistant? Beware that www/snapshot.jpg should be called using /local/snapshot.jpg. Again, I didn't test it and the results may vary.
thank you for this tutorial. During the intro you mentioned communication with audio and video from peer-to-peer. I had hopes that you will show a demo with 2-way audio from the dashboard lovelace card to the camera. Does this work, too? And how about 2-way audio with a mobile device and the companion app?
I've inherited a ptz poe hikvision ip camera, and an 8 port poe switch. I wired this up to my router and went to check the network online and... nothing. The device isn't there. I'm having trouble finding someone with the same issue as most videos just show the connection happening, but not how or how to troubleshoot if it doesn't connect. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong. (I have no previous experience with ip cameras, so any advice is appreciated).
Hi Ed, which is better between WebRTC and ONVIF for my Reolink cameras, please? Thank you. About the reolink Video Doorbell, did you test it with a tablet as internal monitor? If not, how is the experience with the mobile app when anyone rings the bell in terms of image screenshot notifications and realtime video communication? Thank you again
After installing and configuring webrtc, all generic cameras stopped working and webrtc UI page is not loading any streams , not even the ones added manually
Like always great videos. Big thumps up. 👍 I recently noticed that the integration is no longer maintained and moved to a new development by same author. RTSPtoWebRTC is now go2rtc. Could you maybe do another revision of this video with the new addon and integration? 😊
Another great video, quick question if I stop the webrtc add on, will that revert the cameras back to non webrtc protocol as I want external access whilst i look at stun server etc.
I tried to get this too work for a few days now but i cant get it to work. I dont have still image url so i leave this blank as seen on a HA page. Nothing shows up on webrtsp. My onvif and other stuff works fine. I cant figure out what is going wrong i get 6 video stream that is not loading if i press ALL
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!
Hi. Thank you for the walk through. However, I am not able to find the URLs for my DAHUA camera. Can anyone please help on that. Camera model is : DH-IPC-HDW3641TMP.
I tried all the tutorials on the web and for some reason webrtc is not working with my hikvision DVR or NVR. The generic RTSP camera is working fine for all the channels, once I install webrtc, everything stops working and the streams ( both WEBRTC or generic camera) are stuck on loading and nothing happens. I have 2024.4.4 core, 2024.04.0 supervisor, 12.2 OS. Any Ideas?
This made my stream for my Reolink Doorbell flawless!! It used to be anywhere from 1-3 seconds behind real-time and is now spot on with real-time with NO lag. Thank you for the video!! I am having issues with one of my security camera streams. I have the correct RTSP address and port inserted (WebRTC actually pulled it in automatically), but I confirmed it is correct. However, I still can't preview the stream from within the WebRTC UI interface. Any thoughts??
I'm not sure. I have done issues with the latest firmware from Reolink connecting to RTSP. Someone told me that the password may not contain special characters since that version, but I didn't try it yet.
Maybe it is already solved but I had the same issue (I think). I found out that by default RTSP is turned of (also upnp). Via the Reolink PC app it is possible to turn it on and then evertyhing works like it should :)
Thanks for the help. I did have to give it a few tries to get it to work, but now it works great. Do you know of any way to get the card to be full screen on a single dashboard? I did have this set up before with the older slower reolink integration and it was able to go full screen, but webrtc doesn't seem to do it. I'm still real happy with this though. I guess you can't have everything.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Well thanks for trying, but it just doesn't want to fill up the screen. I had it filling up the screen with a single view before using the picture entity card using the regular reolink intergration, but I don't know what the deal is using webrtc and the picture entity card it leaves a boarder on both sides for some reason. There is the aspect ratio setting I fooled around with it some, but it didn't help. So I'm just going to live with it the way it is. I'm still real happy with it this way. It is much faster than it was before. Thanks.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Well I just tried 16:9 to see what would happen and it didn't change. Just for the heck of it I tried a few more and no change. What I did do was changed the theme to ios-dark-mode-blue-red and at least now it has a somewhat gray border. The border is the same about 1/3 the size of the picture card. So it looks kind of better.
Hi, Thank you for your videos, they have helped so much in the past, but for some reason I am getting an error "Unable to load valid image from still image URL (e.g. invalid host, URL or authentication failure)." do you have any ideas as to why?
@SmartHomeJunkie This solution is the _ONLY_ one so far that's worked for me. I'm not sure what is the reason (I've tried installing HA on both my aging NAS and up-to-date Desktop PC using virtualbox, maybe due to running Windows or having too much security settings enabled in Ubiquiti or some Antivirus network protection feature??) but any other like Reolink's own HA integration, Go2rtc, some of the other Web RTC options introduces both noticeable lag but also stuttering/reloading/intermittent camera playback for a couple of seconds tops, reloading and reloading etc which makes it totally unuseable. Also using Google Home and casting to Google TV or Pixel Tablet would occasionally stutter. But this option there's no delay, no stutter, no reloading, nada. Clock keeps up perfectly in sync with the Reolink app's.
Looks like you've been on quite the tech journey! Glad to hear you finally found a solution that works without any stuttering or reloading. Say goodbye to the endless buffering and hello to smooth camera playback!
Hi Ed, I just watched this video. I am looking to install a PTZ TP-link tapo camera in my mother's house, she is old and frail and I want to monitor her. Is there a way, that you know of for adding a remote camera into my Home Assistant? I note you only talk about local cameras. Thanks very much!
Do you know how to get the card to be full screen on a single dashboard ? I set the view type of the view in the dashboard to "panel" and this works... but after some seconds (the moment it goes in live view) it reduces the picture (not as sharp also).
Hi, Nice and very interesting, but as far as I know this protocol isn't particularly secure. Especially important for the people who use a VPN connection for its high security, because by using WebRTC there is a possibility of IP leaks! There are also ways to protect it, but I don't know if this add-on includes this protection!?
With this plugin, the camera time synchronization is very good, but when I connect from outside the home over the mobile network, I cannot see the video stream. I need to be on the internal network. What should I do so that I can see it when I connect remotely?
Hi Ed, Noob question, sorry. Should this work with Reolink Argus PT 2K? I can't add that via the standard Reolink integration so hoped this would be an alternative as a generic camera, but at every attempt i get the following error @Unable to load valid image from still image URL (e.g. invalid host, URL or authentication failure). Review log for more info.
Well, it seems to me that the still url cannot be reached. You can fake this by pointing to a local image that you put in your www folder on your HA server. Be aware that you need to use /local for images that are stored in /www
@@gsmithdsl I have a couple of videos that explain how to store an image locally. I explain in this video how to store an image on your local server. How to SHOW YOUR CAMERA REMOTELY on Your Phone When The Doorbell Rings! czcams.com/video/6jkzy2Cv9Pk/video.html
Another excellent video ED, been trying to add a Reolink camera snapshot as an attachment to my gmail. been trying unsuccessfully for weeks. Perhaps you already have a video or Can you point me in the right direction? Thank you.
Really good explanation as always, but unfortunately it doesn't work for me. I don't know what happens. I followed you instructions and the Generic Camera is running fine. When I install RTSPToWebRTS the problems start. In the dashboard I can add the camera manually, but I also can wait a little bit and she will be shown. So what do I see? For all of my cameras I see an icon (2 times 5 cameras from the Unifi Protect integration high and medium quality) and the generic camera I configured manually. None of these icons has a picture, just an icon. If I click any camera, the page for the camera opens up, as shown by you I got 4 streams. None of these streams load, all hang up in the loading symbol and no picture is shown. You can only see a black background with the loading symbol. That happens for all cameras. That's not all! If I open the generic camera entity, the stream fails to load! If I go onto the dashboard with all of my cameras those cameras with the same stream quality (my Unifi Protect is configured to serve the high and the medium quality stream, the low quality stream is turned off) will also fail to load the stream. Those with different stream quality will still be available. In RTSPToWebRTC no camera stream is shown, it doesn't matter which quality. Uninstalling the integration solves the problem. So I activated the debug function and it seems the integration does some strange things as I have a panic error in the log, the the memory address is invalid..... I hoped, that this system would show faster the stream. The delay of the stream for all cameras is only about 4-5 seconds, but the system needs about 20-30 seconds to get to that state. First the stream is shown, than I have a loading pause and after that the stream runs to fast, until it catches up with the 4-5 second delay.
I'm not able to use the Reolink url you provided. If I just paste the url in the browse it works just fine. I got the following error when using the Reolink(Doorbell) url for the still image. I saw that some other people have the same problem but there is no answer yet. Unable to load valid image from still image URL (e.g. invalid host, URL or authentication failure). Review log for more info.
What is the log saying? You can also point to another image that you placed on your HA server in the www folder. But, you can also use the new Reolink integration nowadays.
Hey Ed im just wondering how this works if you have homeassistant running on a Raspberry Pi? Isn't this not really recommend for use on Raspberry Pi since this could be very CPU intensive? That said i use Scrypted on othere Raspberry Pi for my camera's and send then to Homkit and it works pretty damn good.
My camera is integrated from the UniFi integration. I can see the image with Picture Entity but I tried adding WebRTC as you outline in your video. The UniFi protect app makes it easy to find the link BUT it is rtsps not rtsp Is there a way to make this work with a rtsps url? In the RTSPtoWEB browser I do not see the image, just a spinner. Thank you,
I found a fix for this. Update the url by changing rtsps to rtsp, remove the parameter at the end and change the port to 7747. rtsps://192.168.4.1:7441/Oq2ASjzPQkUVqDsa?enableSrtp rtsp://192.168.4.1:7447/Oq2ASjzPQkUVqDsa Drop the second “s” Change port to 7447 remove ?enableSrtp
Maybe a dumb question but I recently bought a Reolink Outdoor POE camera and I noticed you provided the URL's to add in Home Assistant. I presume you need to first install them with the Reolink app to set a password? Or can you add them to Home Assistant like you did fresh out of the box without any install of Reolink apps?
Hi Smart Home Junkie. Thanks for the video. Very well explained as asusal. I just updated HA to the newest version and WebRTC stopped working. I re-installed the add-on and the integration. When I now try to open the WebUI, it says, that I need to add a stream first - but the stream needs to be added on the WebUI. Any hints how I can bypass this? Thanks for your feedbackund Regards, Aleardo
Hi Aleardo, It's the first time that I hear from this issue. I will try to reproduce it myself. Not sure what's going on. Maybe rebooting the host (so not HA only) will fix this?
@@SmartHomeJunkie Restarting the Hub did not solve it. I de-installed the add-on, deleted the integration and rebootet the whole system. Then I installed all again and now all is fine again. Thanks!
Hi, at the very end (minute 5:49 of the video) , I get this error: "Failed to start WebRTC stream: RTSPtoWeb server failure: stream channel codec not ready, possible stream offline: Internal Server Error. " Can I do something to fix it?
@@SmartHomeJunkie I'd like to know to how it goes, I've done it and it's constantly freezing and lagging, I've also bought the google coral. but I'm running HA in k8s
is there any way to get this working without "addons"? i dont have that in my HA for some reason.. i managed to google that the reason for that might be, that i installed HA in some other way and can have it
Do you feel that your camera stream has delays? Then try this method to speed up the live stream of your security camera! Let me know in the comments if this worked for you as well!
Hey. Do you have any HIKVisonm cameras ? i did all steps and i cant see stream in RTSPtoWEB Dashboard (i see stream in VLS for example its mean url is correct) Thx for any help in advance
@@LoadingPodcast no, I don't. Sorry.
I tried this and it worked fine locally. However, I am unable to show the live feed on dashboard remotely. I already had a live feed using reolink integration which has been working fine. After installing this it doesnt work when accessing remotely. When I disable the webRTC the live stream on dashboard works. When I am at home wifi the streaming works brilliantly using when webRTC enabled. Any thoughts?
As always, THE source to find the information needed - ¡Gracias! 🔴
Great tutorial, I just followed it and everything works perfectly, much faster videos in all my cameras. Thanks a lot
Thank you so much for taking the time to walk us through the process. I'm happy to say that I was able to get my Eufy camera connected with HA because of this video. The only issue is that it seems unreliable. Basically, it works for a few minutes, then freezes. Might just be mine, so I intend to continue to mess with it in order to have it functioning the way it is intended.
That went fast. But it’s a clear explanation. Once I installed my Reolink POE Doorbell I will try this for sure. Thanks again, Ed.
Many thanks this has really improved the delay. Your videos are great, keep up the great work
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Great to hear!
Worked perfectly for my two hikvision cameras. Thanks!
I really liked the way you explain showing on the screen where to click, what to type, and always say the reason. Much appreciated for the help.
Thanks for the compliment!
Totally agree, this helps a lot when the UI changes and HA tends to do
Bedankt! Zonder je tutorial was ik er niet uitgekomen denk ik! Je hebt er een abonnee bij :D
This is amazing. After I got webrtc up and running it found all my reolink cameras already integrated in home assistant. All my cameras load so much faster now.
That’s awesome 🤩
I'm a dumb. I was driving myself crazy trying to add another camera after I had added one days before. I was missing the "This image looks good" box and just hitting submit. I know it's all on me, but so many other videos I watched just glossed over the add your camera part. Your thorough video showed me how I was being an idiot. Thank you for this!
This is a lifesaver. Was wondering why everything was so laggy!
Wow, wat een verschil! Echt geweldig! Gebruik de camera's om een ijsvogelbroedsel in de tuin te volgen en de vertraging en 3 fps waren erg irrtant, dit is top!
Super!
Nice tutorial, thank you ! My 2 Reolink cameras where already installed and I just add to install the addon, and configure it. When in the 8083 page, if your camera doesn't appear, just wait for a couple of minutes.
This is awesome works like a charm! I also tried setting up a home security system using Ant media server (also really easy)
Fantastic tutorial, thanks for sharing
Great video, worked superbly for my Annke cameras. Just a note I need to set H.264 compression as on H.265 it was not working/stuttering.
Tried and followed the tutorial. Very good and to the point. It works when viewing the the Camera on the internal network but not when from outside the network. This is both with Web browser and the HA app om my mobile
See the description of the video for possible solutions.
@@SmartHomeJunkie How did I miss that!!!🤣🤣
Thanks heaps, I only posted for a solution like this yesterday
Hope this helps!
Thank you very much for the tutorial, Ed.
Quick question, before I decided whether I would have a use case for this. I am using a generic camera stream for my baby monitor, which does not have audio. Does it have audio when configured as WebRTC? Thank you
Another great video thank you. Is it possible to use Reolink Cameras via a Reolink NVR? RTSP and ONVIF are open from network settings on the NVR but can't seem to get any cameras to display in RTSPtoWeb.
Great vid! Anyone know if this would work for the Eufy security cameras ?
Hi! Thanks for the video. Does this work work for the Nest Hub Cameras? Thank you
Once again , great tutorial! This really works a lot faster. Now i'm only trying to find a way to make the video stream cast faster to my google nest hub, when someone rings my reolink doorbell.
I'm struggling with the same problem, have you solved it? How to cast it?
Hi again, Thanks for your tips and suggestions. I have 11 cameras I will test this on, as a compliment to BlueIris. 😊
Let me know how it works for you!
If you have camera's installed, connected to a DVR, what do you do? Dou you integrate the DVR, or try to connect to the sub-stream of each individual camera?
Nice for the guide. But i noticed a problem with RTSP WEBRTC when the addon is added to HA it stops the ability to use the media tab in HA to stream cameras to GH displays. ive got about 5 cameras and all stopped showing as cameras
Thanks for the guide, added my reolink doorbell camera, however there is no audio. Is there a way to fix that? I ran all 4 different version of the stream but they didn't have audio.
Thanks for yet another useful video. The amount of work you put into these videos is unbelievable. Much appreciated! Now on the subject: Is this solution also possible for Ring system doorbells?
No, it's not. Ring does not support RTSP.
Great video! Does this work for the nest cams? (And nest hello video doorbell). I have the nest integration.
Thanks for an awesome tutorial!
Got all working except the last step. Camera (stream) are showing fine in the RTSPtoWEB dashboard in all four protocols. But when added to HA dashboard it only shows a snapshot image and doesn't update :( Any idea where I messed up?
Does this also work for Reolink battery based cameras like the Argus 2E and Argus 3 Pro?
The delayed cam feed on my displays has been a real frustration for me. Thank you. I've had to set up a 2nd Generic Camera as the Frigate integration doesn't like this but not an issue.
Great to hear!
Hello! Did you compared it to the fregate integration? Which one is better?
Thanks for the video. Once you have the camera video feed in hass, would you also install the manufacturers integration for any other sensors you might require? Or would you use the webrtc feed for some other sensors?
You can do both i guess. Disable the video entity for example and use the others you find usefull.
Does this method work with Kasa KC410S? Thanks! great content
Hello, will this work with Blink doorbell and cameras ? Thx
Cool work, does it also with RTMP though?
Would be great if you could describe the whole flow of using WebRTC with Frigate NVR and same Reolink doorbell you've got there.
Hi, another great one, thanks. I had trouble adding my tapo and unifi cameras to the generic camera integration so I wentold school camerea setup via yaml and it's working great so far. The caviat here is that we should expect a bit of a load on memory depending on how many cameras you have in your system. I guess there is no free lunch right? anyway, the fast load of the video stream worth the resources in my opnion.
Thanks!
Hi. Can you tell me how to install rtsptowebrtc on docker? I have home assistant installed on portainer
do you plan to add another tutorial for docker container version of HA?
Thanks for another good video. My brother asked me for help to get 2 cameras for outdoor use on his house. One requirement he have is no monthly payments (subscrition fees). He want to buy his hardware and thats it. I have strongly recommended Home Assistant and do the same thing you showed in the video.
He wishes for is that the cameras runs on batteries and using WIFI with RTSP. But i cant find any cameras with those specs.
What i have understood is that RTSP using more power and drain the battery pretty fast. I told my brother that, but he still want me to check if i can find any cameras.
Do you know any cameras?
I am going to talk to him again about this and i just realized that he has a Attic Space where he can pull shielded network cables (cat6 or cat6e) to the cameras. Hopefully he dont need to "upgrade" the cables for many many years.
Hello, I'm just getting back into this after my HA wiped out my system. The Web2RTC repository is no longer being supported. Is there another way of implementing the Generic webcam into HA? - thanks, your work is fantastic and really helpful!
What did you find was the main advantages of using Generic Camera over other camera integrations? Just curious as I use Synolgy and like the way it picks up the cameras, but I don't like the delay
I'm my experience, the generic camera works best, but it might be different for others.
Thanks for the detailed explaination. I live in NL and what camera do you suggest for the front door and for surveillance what I can integrate with HA with the explanation you have given? Thank you.
I'd suggest the Reolink cameras.
@@SmartHomeJunkieso for instance Reolink RLC-810WA would work right. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Finally my camera works with a minimum of delay. I am very happy now.
Please, how can i activate the audio of the camera, now?
I use a Tapo C110
Thank you
Ok I have noob question. I set up everything, works good, but now I want external access. I read there are two options: STUN server or exclude substream from WebRTC.
I don't know how to do that. Could someone describe me (step by step)?
I do not really understand ... as I have my cameras installed under "MJPEG Camera" as well as "Generic Camera". I can find both entities in HA ... now that I cahve configured WebRTC ... do you choose still another entity as camera ? Is there an entity created by WebRTC ??
Thank you! I have a lot of troubkes with some wyze v3 cameras. Do you have some videos on wyze+webrtc+frigate?
Otherwise do you mind to make an in-depht video on the subject?
If I owned these cans that might be a possibility. But I don't own one.
Thank you so much for another great video. My Eufy Outdoor Cam Pro cameras don't have a still image URL, but just the RTSP one. What can I do to generate a snapshot from the last stream? Any help is welcome, thank you in advance.
Thanks. I did not test it, but maybe you can point to a "fake" snapshot that you store in the www folder of Home Assistant? Beware that www/snapshot.jpg should be called using /local/snapshot.jpg. Again, I didn't test it and the results may vary.
@@SmartHomeJunkie I will give it a try. Thank you.
@@empierrelouis Let me know if it worked for you!
thank you for this tutorial. During the intro you mentioned communication with audio and video from peer-to-peer. I had hopes that you will show a demo with 2-way audio from the dashboard lovelace card to the camera. Does this work, too? And how about 2-way audio with a mobile device and the companion app?
I am waiting to have doorbell full integration into HA w/o using cloud or third part applications
No, that does not work yet.
Great stuff, but do you know how we can record and save videos from Home Assistant using WebRTC or Generic Camera? Or any method really.
I've inherited a ptz poe hikvision ip camera, and an 8 port poe switch. I wired this up to my router and went to check the network online and... nothing. The device isn't there. I'm having trouble finding someone with the same issue as most videos just show the connection happening, but not how or how to troubleshoot if it doesn't connect. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong. (I have no previous experience with ip cameras, so any advice is appreciated).
Hi Ed, which is better between WebRTC and ONVIF for my Reolink cameras, please? Thank you.
About the reolink Video Doorbell, did you test it with a tablet as internal monitor?
If not, how is the experience with the mobile app when anyone rings the bell in terms of image screenshot notifications and realtime video communication? Thank you again
Check this video for that 😉
Make Your Security Camera Popup on Your Tablet
czcams.com/video/T8Lw8wg51bE/video.html
After installing and configuring webrtc, all generic cameras stopped working and webrtc UI page is not loading any streams , not even the ones added manually
I was wondering if anyone managed to get Webrtc working with HA 2024.4 version
Like always great videos. Big thumps up. 👍 I recently noticed that the integration is no longer maintained and moved to a new development by same author. RTSPtoWebRTC is now go2rtc. Could you maybe do another revision of this video with the new addon and integration? 😊
Would this make sense if frigate is installed?
Does anyone have the address for the still and live streams for a Hikvision DS-HD1 Doorbell camera, please?
Another great video, quick question if I stop the webrtc add on, will that revert the cameras back to non webrtc protocol as I want external access whilst i look at stun server etc.
Yes it will!
@@SmartHomeJunkie great my camera does a SD and HD stream, I have seperated them so webrtc for HD and none for SD, so two views home and away 😁
@@sbonera This is a great idea!
I tried to get this too work for a few days now but i cant get it to work.
I dont have still image url so i leave this blank as seen on a HA page.
Nothing shows up on webrtsp.
My onvif and other stuff works fine.
I cant figure out what is going wrong i get 6 video stream that is not loading if i press ALL
thank you so much, now my reolink works without a delay. but i get no stream when i out of my lan with my iphone and the ha app.
I don't quite understand what the WebRTC plugin is good for, I can set up the last step without the plugin?
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!
Hi. Thank you for the walk through. However, I am not able to find the URLs for my DAHUA camera. Can anyone please help on that. Camera model is : DH-IPC-HDW3641TMP.
I tried all the tutorials on the web and for some reason webrtc is not working with my hikvision DVR or NVR. The generic RTSP camera is working fine for all the channels, once I install webrtc, everything stops working and the streams ( both WEBRTC or generic camera) are stuck on loading and nothing happens. I have 2024.4.4 core, 2024.04.0 supervisor, 12.2 OS. Any Ideas?
This made my stream for my Reolink Doorbell flawless!! It used to be anywhere from 1-3 seconds behind real-time and is now spot on with real-time with NO lag. Thank you for the video!!
I am having issues with one of my security camera streams. I have the correct RTSP address and port inserted (WebRTC actually pulled it in automatically), but I confirmed it is correct. However, I still can't preview the stream from within the WebRTC UI interface. Any thoughts??
I'm not sure. I have done issues with the latest firmware from Reolink connecting to RTSP. Someone told me that the password may not contain special characters since that version, but I didn't try it yet.
@@PersonXes I experimented with go2rtc and experienced lagging issues with my Home Assistant server. I didn't experience that with webrtc.
Maybe it is already solved but I had the same issue (I think). I found out that by default RTSP is turned of (also upnp). Via the Reolink PC app it is possible to turn it on and then evertyhing works like it should :)
@@Eindhoventube Indeed.
Thanks for the help. I did have to give it a few tries to get it to work, but now it works great. Do you know of any way to get the card to be full screen on a single dashboard? I did have this set up before with the older slower reolink integration and it was able to go full screen, but webrtc doesn't seem to do it. I'm still real happy with this though. I guess you can't have everything.
Yes, set the view type of the view in the dashboard to "panel". I believe seeing it to "sidebar" might work as well.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Well thanks for trying, but it just doesn't want to fill up the screen. I had it filling up the screen with a single view before using the picture entity card using the regular reolink intergration, but I don't know what the deal is using webrtc and the picture entity card it leaves a boarder on both sides for some reason. There is the aspect ratio setting I fooled around with it some, but it didn't help. So I'm just going to live with it the way it is. I'm still real happy with it this way. It is much faster than it was before. Thanks.
@@ronbrown4551 Ah, now I understand what you mean! What happens if you set the aspect ratio in the card on 16:9?
@@SmartHomeJunkie Well I just tried 16:9 to see what would happen and it didn't change. Just for the heck of it I tried a few more and no change. What I did do was changed the theme to ios-dark-mode-blue-red and at least now it has a somewhat gray border. The border is the same about 1/3 the size of the picture card. So it looks kind of better.
My HomeAssistantInstance is behind NGINX Proxy Manager and Cloudflare. How do this work with WebRTC?
Hi, Thank you for your videos, they have helped so much in the past, but for some reason I am getting an error "Unable to load valid image from still image URL (e.g. invalid host, URL or authentication failure)." do you have any ideas as to why?
Probably because the url is wrong or the usernane/password combination is wrong for the still image.
@SmartHomeJunkie This solution is the _ONLY_ one so far that's worked for me. I'm not sure what is the reason (I've tried installing HA on both my aging NAS and up-to-date Desktop PC using virtualbox, maybe due to running Windows or having too much security settings enabled in Ubiquiti or some Antivirus network protection feature??) but any other like Reolink's own HA integration, Go2rtc, some of the other Web RTC options introduces both noticeable lag but also stuttering/reloading/intermittent camera playback for a couple of seconds tops, reloading and reloading etc which makes it totally unuseable. Also using Google Home and casting to Google TV or Pixel Tablet would occasionally stutter. But this option there's no delay, no stutter, no reloading, nada. Clock keeps up perfectly in sync with the Reolink app's.
Looks like you've been on quite the tech journey! Glad to hear you finally found a solution that works without any stuttering or reloading. Say goodbye to the endless buffering and hello to smooth camera playback!
Hi Ed, I just watched this video. I am looking to install a PTZ TP-link tapo camera in my mother's house, she is old and frail and I want to monitor her. Is there a way, that you know of for adding a remote camera into my Home Assistant? I note you only talk about local cameras. Thanks very much!
Try remote access to your local home assistant. There are many ways to do that.
Do you know how to get the card to be full screen on a single dashboard ? I set the view type of the view in the dashboard to "panel" and this works... but after some seconds (the moment it goes in live view) it reduces the picture (not as sharp also).
Found it ! Used the substream of the camera, which has a maximum resolution of 640*480
So I will have to use the main stream instead.
Hi, Nice vídeo. Do you know How show the camera in an Alexa integrated tv?
Hi,
Nice and very interesting, but as far as I know this protocol isn't particularly secure. Especially important for the people who use a VPN connection for its high security, because by using WebRTC there is a possibility of IP leaks!
There are also ways to protect it, but I don't know if this add-on includes this protection!?
With this plugin, the camera time synchronization is very good, but when I connect from outside the home over the mobile network, I cannot see the video stream. I need to be on the internal network. What should I do so that I can see it when I connect remotely?
See the description of the video for hints.
Hi Ed, Noob question, sorry. Should this work with Reolink Argus PT 2K? I can't add that via the standard Reolink integration so hoped this would be an alternative as a generic camera, but at every attempt i get the following error @Unable to load valid image from still image URL (e.g. invalid host, URL or authentication failure). Review log for more info.
Well, it seems to me that the still url cannot be reached. You can fake this by pointing to a local image that you put in your www folder on your HA server. Be aware that you need to use /local for images that are stored in /www
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks for the quick response Ed but that puts me immediately out of my depth 🙂. Would any of your videos explain how to do this~?
@@gsmithdsl I have a couple of videos that explain how to store an image locally. I explain in this video how to store an image on your local server. How to SHOW YOUR CAMERA REMOTELY on Your Phone When The Doorbell Rings!
czcams.com/video/6jkzy2Cv9Pk/video.html
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thats great, thanks again, I'll give those a look when i get a moment.
Do you have advice for a good indoor camera that will work with HA? I tried tp link tapo c201 but could not get it to work.
I use Reolink cameras and I am pretty happy with all of them!
Hello sir, i just installed the RTSPtoWebRTC but when i press start nothing happens at all. it get stuck there. Any suggestions?
Another excellent video ED, been trying to add a Reolink camera snapshot as an attachment to my gmail. been trying unsuccessfully for weeks. Perhaps you already have a video or Can you point me in the right direction? Thank you.
I didn't do this for e-mail yet. I do have a video on how you can view the snapshot remotely on your phone.
Really good explanation as always, but unfortunately it doesn't work for me. I don't know what happens.
I followed you instructions and the Generic Camera is running fine.
When I install RTSPToWebRTS the problems start.
In the dashboard I can add the camera manually, but I also can wait a little bit and she will be shown. So what do I see?
For all of my cameras I see an icon (2 times 5 cameras from the Unifi Protect integration high and medium quality) and the generic camera I configured manually. None of these icons has a picture, just an icon.
If I click any camera, the page for the camera opens up, as shown by you I got 4 streams. None of these streams load, all hang up in the loading symbol and no picture is shown. You can only see a black background with the loading symbol. That happens for all cameras.
That's not all! If I open the generic camera entity, the stream fails to load! If I go onto the dashboard with all of my cameras those cameras with the same stream quality (my Unifi Protect is configured to serve the high and the medium quality stream, the low quality stream is turned off) will also fail to load the stream. Those with different stream quality will still be available. In RTSPToWebRTC no camera stream is shown, it doesn't matter which quality.
Uninstalling the integration solves the problem.
So I activated the debug function and it seems the integration does some strange things as I have a panic error in the log, the the memory address is invalid.....
I hoped, that this system would show faster the stream. The delay of the stream for all cameras is only about 4-5 seconds, but the system needs about 20-30 seconds to get to that state. First the stream is shown, than I have a loading pause and after that the stream runs to fast, until it catches up with the 4-5 second delay.
Not sure why this works different in your set up 🤷🏼
are you (or anyone reading) aware of the differences between the allenporter version of WebRTC demonstrated here and the AlexxIT version?
I'm not able to use the Reolink url you provided. If I just paste the url in the browse it works just fine. I got the following error when using the Reolink(Doorbell) url for the still image. I saw that some other people have the same problem but there is no answer yet.
Unable to load valid image from still image URL (e.g. invalid host, URL or authentication failure). Review log for more info.
What is the log saying?
You can also point to another image that you placed on your HA server in the www folder. But, you can also use the new Reolink integration nowadays.
@@SmartHomeJunkie OK I pointed to a random image and then I can continue
Do you think the new Reolink integration is fasted enough?
The repository is no longer maintained. also for some reason the WebRTC was slower on for me very jerky?
Hey Ed im just wondering how this works if you have homeassistant running on a Raspberry Pi? Isn't this not really recommend for use on Raspberry Pi since this could be very CPU intensive? That said i use Scrypted on othere Raspberry Pi for my camera's and send then to Homkit and it works pretty damn good.
Hi! I run this on an Odroid N2 Plus and it works great.
My camera is integrated from the UniFi integration. I can see the image with Picture Entity but I tried adding WebRTC as you outline in your video. The UniFi protect app makes it easy to find the link BUT it is rtsps not rtsp Is there a way to make this work with a rtsps url? In the RTSPtoWEB browser I do not see the image, just a spinner. Thank you,
I found a fix for this. Update the url by changing rtsps to rtsp, remove the parameter at the end and change the port to 7747.
rtsps://192.168.4.1:7441/Oq2ASjzPQkUVqDsa?enableSrtp
rtsp://192.168.4.1:7447/Oq2ASjzPQkUVqDsa
Drop the second “s”
Change port to 7447
remove ?enableSrtp
Maybe a dumb question but I recently bought a Reolink Outdoor POE camera and I noticed you provided the URL's to add in Home Assistant. I presume you need to first install them with the Reolink app to set a password? Or can you add them to Home Assistant like you did fresh out of the box without any install of Reolink apps?
You need to install the cameras first with app indeed.
@@SmartHomeJunkie just checked it myself, you can just login on the local ip and set the password. So no need to install the app or anything
Hi Smart Home Junkie. Thanks for the video. Very well explained as asusal. I just updated HA to the newest version and WebRTC stopped working. I re-installed the add-on and the integration. When I now try to open the WebUI, it says, that I need to add a stream first - but the stream needs to be added on the WebUI. Any hints how I can bypass this? Thanks for your feedbackund Regards, Aleardo
Hi Aleardo,
It's the first time that I hear from this issue. I will try to reproduce it myself. Not sure what's going on. Maybe rebooting the host (so not HA only) will fix this?
@@SmartHomeJunkie Restarting the Hub did not solve it. I de-installed the add-on, deleted the integration and rebootet the whole system. Then I installed all again and now all is fine again. Thanks!
@@user-ip6gu6hn4f That's great to hear!!!
Hi, at the very end (minute 5:49 of the video) , I get this error:
"Failed to start WebRTC stream: RTSPtoWeb server failure: stream channel codec not ready, possible stream offline: Internal Server Error. "
Can I do something to fix it?
👍👍👍
Will this work with the Ring Door bell camera? I could not find the URL's
No, it doesn't. See the comments.
hi, works with Xiaomi cameras ?
can't find the url's for stream and pic
Now frigate supports rstp re stream. I have to check how is doing
Cool, let me know!
@@SmartHomeJunkie I'd like to know to how it goes, I've done it and it's constantly freezing and lagging, I've also bought the google coral.
but I'm running HA in k8s
why install webrtc if you use generic camera and rtsp url directly inside Generic Camera device ? thanks
Because this is faster
is there any way to get this working without "addons"? i dont have that in my HA for some reason.. i managed to google that the reason for that might be, that i installed HA in some other way and can have it
You need to install HA OS to use the addons.
👍❤
i feel like im missing something.... so webrtc just...pulls the traffic towards it now? why wouldnt the live view STILL go to the url provided?
Yep, that's the way it works. The traffic gets rerouted.
Everything set up and working fine in homeassistent but in the android app there is no stream visible.
This only works locally.
Can you make a tutorial with the Eufy doorbell/homebase pls?
Mag ook in het nederlands :D
I couldn't get Eufi to work with Home Assistant.