Nothing in Home App

[ghost]

Hi, I installed all as described but nothing appeared in my home app. No crash on running of Homebridge process and the camera is running on another port as I supposed. Can you help me?

[nikriek]

Have you tried running the standalone mode? This worked for me

[ghost]

I tried this and it works! Thank you very much!

[ghost]

How can I improve the video quality?

[moritzmhmk]

What is wrong with the quality? (lag, resolution, framerate...)

[charlietomo]

Hi, I have similarly followed the instructions for the homebridge plugin and everything appears to install except nothing new appears in my home app. I would prefer to get it working without using the standalone version if possible.

What should I look for in logs? In terms of related things I get:

Loaded plugin: homebridge-camera-rpi
Registering platform 'homebridge-camera-rpi.rpi-camera'
[rpi-camera] Initializing rpi-camera platform...
Loading 2 accessories...
Pi Camera is running on port 39379.
no did or loc found!

I added the following to my config.json

        {
            "platform" : "rpi-camera",
            "cameras": [{"name": "Pi Camera"}]
        }

But must admit I don't fully understand the naming convention. Thanks in advance.

[moritzmhmk]

try changing id, pincode and username

e.g.

{
  "platform" : "rpi-camera",
  "cameras": [{
    "name": "Pi Camera",
    "id": "foobar",
    "pincode": "042-45-154",
    "username": "EC:42:3D:D3:CE:CE"
 }]
}

[charlietomo]

I followed the instructions under "Installation (as homebridge plugin)" which makes no mention of id/pincode/username etc? Did I miss some stages of install, or is that for the standalone version?

[charlietomo]

Following up I have got this to work. I did not have to add extra details (but thanks for the input). I had to, in my Home app on iPhone, click + in top right, then Add Accessory then Don't have a code or Can't Scan? - then I saw Pi Camera listed. I added it, using the same code as for my main Homebridge setup (specified earlier, once, in my config.json file).

Can I suggest this info is added to the readme? This may have solved the OPs issue as well.

[moritzmhmk]

done 👍