Cameras

#Cameras with RTSP

Any camera with a local RTSP stream: a Tapo with a camera account set in its app, a Reolink, most ONVIF cameras. Devices, Add a device, Cameras (RTSP), Add the camera with its RTSP address (stored encrypted). The eye shows what you typed. Test it first checks the address before anything is saved: that it reads as one (an @, / or # in the password has to be written %40, %2F, %23), that something answers on its port, and what stream ffprobe finds there, or the camera's answer when it refuses (wrong password, wrong path).

The worker runs one ffmpeg per camera. It copies the video as it comes, without re-encoding, into a short live stream for the camera's page and, with Record on the server on, into five-minute MP4 files kept for the days you choose. Files live next to the database, in plugin-data/camera/<device id>/recordings inside the data volume, and are only served to signed-in people. Recordings from before plugins sit in the old cameras/ folder: move each camera's files there by hand to keep them. A 1080p camera fills roughly 20 GB a day; size the volume and the retention together.

The camera page plays the live view and lists recordings by day. The Docker image ships ffmpeg; running the binaries yourself needs it on the PATH.

#Frigate

With a Frigate NVR, connect it instead: Devices, Add a device, Frigate, with its internal address (port 5000) and the labels to be told about (person by default). Its cameras come in as devices; their pages show Frigate's live view and its events, each playing its clip. Frigate records; LocalAssistant only proxies its pictures and clips to signed-in people.

Behind a proxy like Pangolin, use its public address and put the header it checks in Extra headers, one Name: value per line (stored encrypted): every request to Frigate carries it.

With the MQTT broker connected (see Zigbee and Shelly), a new detection of one of those labels pushes a notification to everyone, once every five minutes per camera and label.

#The printer's camera

A Bambu Lab P1 or A1 card has a camera button: it shows a picture from the printer every two seconds while open. Turn on LAN mode liveview in the printer's settings.