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coasttech

Home Assistant is a smart things hub for everything. For people asking for homekit support Home Assistant is the way to go.

I would love to be able to use SS with Home Assistant.

Here is a list of support systems. https://www.home-assistant.io/components/#camera

I tried using - https://www.home-assistant.io/components/camera.generic/ and https://www.home-assistant.io/components/camera.mjpeg/

Issue here was the fact I am using H.246 and I don't want to stop using it.

Ben, am I able to stream from SS to Home Assistant?

Side note... Home Assistant is amazing and has a great community. I know if you built a plugin for it you would sell a heaps of SS to the community! You would also then have the benefit of all the other amazing thing people could do with SS using Home Assistant!!

coasttech

I just discovered with sub stream is, so I got it working but all the above still applies!!

coasttech

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coasttech

You know you want to Ben..

Ben

This is interesting, we will have a look at the possibility of a SecuritySpy plugin for Home Assistant, I think that would be a good idea.

The "Generic MJPEG IP Camera" plugin seems to be the best one to use currently. The MJPEG URL to supply would be something like this:

http://ss-server-address:8000/++video?cameraNum=0

(see the SecuritySpy Web Server Specification document for a full description of the ++video request.

You can obtain the correct camera number from the Camera Info window in SecuritySpy - if you don't currently have this column displayed, click the header bar where you see the column names, and you will get a pop-up menu that allows you to add the Camera Number column.

DaveGarratt

I agree, from what I've seen on the web so far there would be a great demand for something like this. The NEST solution is Clould based and insanely expensive. I genuinely think that a home server solution which could integrate with Google Home and Homekit would be very popular.

jjbanker

I am working with Home Assistant to develop a series of switches that arm and disarm individual cameras. The benefit will be to enable the switches to be used with other automatons or scripts within Home Assistant. Here is the yaml I am using in my Home Assistant configuration.yaml.

switch:
- platform: command_line
switches:
camera_arm:
command_on: '/usr/bin/curl -k "http://{ip}:8000/++ssControlMotionCapture?cameraNum=3&arm=1&auth={authkey}"'
command_off: '/usr/bin/curl -k "http://{ip}:8000/++ssControlMotionCapture?cameraNum=3&arm=0&auth={authkey}"'
command_state: '/usr/bin/curl -k --silent "http://{ip}:8000/++cameramodes?cameraNum=3&auth={authkey}" | grep -oP "(?<=M:).*"'<br /> value_template: '{{ value == "ARMED" }}'

where {ip} = my camera IP address and {authkey} = my authentication. Ignore the not sure why that keeps popping up value_template is a separate line in the yaml.

I suspect my error is in the syntax of the grep command because when I use curl on the command line in terminal to fetch the state of the camera it returns

C:DISARMED
M:DISARMED
A:DISARMED

however, as soon as I add the grep command it fails. If I can get this working I should be able to control this camera's motion capture, notifications, etc.. with switches in Home Assistant.

jjbanker

Anyone else have any experience with integrating security spy with home assistant. I am close, but do not have it working successfully yet.

briis

Hi jjbanker
This: {authkey} will not work in a command_line switch. Either you will have to type the full Auth Key or you will have to put the whole line in the secrets file with the typed auth key and then just do something like:
command_on: !secret cam1_on
command_off: !secret cam1_off
command_state: !secret cam1_state

Your value template is fine and so is you grep command. I use exactly the same and it works.

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