Switchbot Pan/Tilt Camera no Camera Stream

[BangerTech]

Hi and first of all thanks for the Binding! Great job! I got a Switchbot Pan/Tilt Camera the other day and it works like other Tuya Cams too. I connected it in the SmartLife App and with your Binding i can add it to openHAB3. The only Problem is there is no Camera Stream Channel. On HomeAssistant there is no Problem with the Tuya integration i get a camera Stream right away. I´ve tried to setup a manual channel but this didn´t work as well. Do you have any idea what i can do?

Thanks again and kindest regards.

[J-N-K]

I don't have such a camera. What channels are added?

[BangerTech]

thanks for the reply. ok i´m just wondering why there is no stream channel or something. here is the full list

[J-N-K]

I guess that's because the schema does not provide such a channel. Is it this model

https://www.amazon.de/SwitchBot-Überwachungskamera-Sichtfeldabdeckung-Bewegungserkennung-Bewegungsverfolgung/dp/B09WCQP14H

?

[BangerTech]

yes exactly thats the camera. integrated it in HomeAssistant and had almost the same channels (entities) but there was one more streaming channel :-( maybe i need to create a channel manually?

[J-N-K]

If I'm not mistaken HomeAssistant uses the Tuya Cloud for connecting the devices. It's possible that some functionality is not available for local control. Which category is the device? If you log-in to iot.tuya.com and go to

• the device overview in your cloud project and click on "Debug device" or
• the API Explorer / Device Management / Get Device Details or
• the API Explorer / Device Control / Get Device specifications

do you see something that looks like a value that could provide the stream URL? Unfortunately I don't have a use-case for another indoor cam, otherwise I would have ordered one to check out myself.

[BangerTech]

so in device debugging i don´t see any stream url or something only one thing called movement_detect_pic RAW nothing else which let me think there is a stream url. Product Category is: sp for the api explorer stuff i couldn´t find anything too but i´m not a pro on the tuya iot platform ;-) i thought homeassistant uses kinda the same method with the iot platform, because i use the same cloud project as with openhab.

[J-N-K]

Yes and no. They use the same project, but with cloud access, while we use local access. I also found out why they can show the video stream: You have to add the "IoT Video Live Stream" API to your project. But this is a paid API. I'll check if I can add something so you can use it.

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