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twrecked / hass-aarlo

Asynchronous Arlo Component for Home Assistant
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Question, possibly feature request, about live video #365

Open pro-forma opened 3 years ago

pro-forma commented 3 years ago

Apologies if this is the wrong place.

I'm setting up my home security system, which includes some Arlo pieces. Thanks to your efforts, everything's working almost as I'd like. I've set up thomasloven's hass-browser mod, and I can now get an attached "monitor" tablet to automatically switch to a dashboard with a panel view of the front door camera, whenever motion is detected. All the pieces are (almost!) in place.

If I'm using a standard IP cam, this works exactly as I'd like. However, if the front door cam is an arlo cam, the panel view shows a still image, not video. I don't see any way of getting the video stream rolling automatically (without approaching the tablet and tapping on the widget). Is this possible, either with your custom lovelace widget, or a default widget?

It seems possible, since your custom widget includes live streaming -- and it works great. The widget's default behavior just isn't ideal for this situation... It can take a couple seconds for any live video feed to start, so the ability to start the process automatically -- just as soon as the correct dashboard is loaded -- well, that'd be the difference between my setup being useful or clunky.

So, is there currently a way to make an Arlo camera (either with your custom lovelace widget or a default widget) just show the stream by default?

(I realize this might eat battery... but in my setup, the view with the livestream widget would only be active for a couple minutes, when motion was detected.)

Edit: OK, I see this same request a little further down, so I'm guessing this isn't currently possible. Leaving my comment for now, both to say "I'd like this too!", and maybe illustrate why this would (IMO) add so much utility. Thanks for your efforts!

twrecked commented 3 years ago

I'm looking to add an auto- start function and a continuous stream facility. It's not that difficult I just need to work around the fact that Arlo will kill the stream every 30 minutes.

tmmedic20 commented 3 years ago

To piggy back off his subject...

is there a way to use the live stream feature as a tap action in a picture element card?

twrecked commented 3 years ago

The standard picture element? I'm not sure.

If you use the aarlo lovelace card you can set it up to either play the last recording or live stream when you click on the picture. You can also set it up to live stream from arlo directly instead of going via home assistant.

twrecked commented 3 years ago

Experimental auto-play is added here: https://github.com/twrecked/lovelace-hass-aarlo/releases/tag/v0.1.6.2