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A Home Assistant add-on to enable live streams of Ring Cameras. This add-on wraps around Dgreif's excellent work and exposes a livestream.
DOT NOT run this add-on with 24-hour streaming - use this addon by starting it on-demand
camera:
- platform: generic
name: Ring Livestream
stream_source: http://homeassistant.local:port/public/stream.m3u8
still_image_url: http://homeassistant.local:port/public/stream.m3u8
(Don't worry about the still_image_url
not pointing to an actual image, we are not going to use it, but it is required.)
Picture Glance
card to your UI, set the 'Camera Entity` to the camera you have just created.Example configuration:
ring_refresh_token: your_refresh_token
camera_name: Front Door
Currently the addon does not support taking snapshots, but when it does this is the configuration you will need:
In order to use the snapshot
service, you will need to following settings in your configuration.yaml
:
homeassistant:
whitelist_external_dirs:
- /config/tmp
You can then call the snapshot
service like this:
service: camera.snapshot
entity_id: [entityID]
filename: tmp/foo.jpg
Some users reported success to create a snapshot using:
- platform: ffmpeg
input: http://hassio.local:port/public/stream.m3u8
A workaround to start/stop streaming (and avoid quick discharge) in Hassio is to start the addon on demand. To do this set up a sensor and switch:
sensor:
- platform: rest
resource: "http://hassio.local:port/api/hassio/addons/xxxxxxxx_ringlivestream/info"
headers:
Authorization: "Bearer [Long_Lived_Access_Token]"
Content-Type: application/json
name: ring_addon_state
value_template: "{{value_json['data']['state']}}"
switch:
- platform: template
switches:
ring_live_stream:
value_template: "{{ is_state('sensor.ring_addon_state', 'started') }}"
turn_on:
service: hassio.addon_start
data:
addon: xxxxxxxx_ringlivestream
turn_off:
service: hassio.addon_stop
data:
addon: xxxxxxxx_ringlivestream
[Long_Lived_Access_Token]
can be generated on your profile page in Home Assistant (https://hassio.local:port/profile), scroll all the way to the bottom.