Home Assistant

Generic MJPEG IP Camera

The mjpeg camera platform allows you to integrate IP cameras which are capable to stream their video with MJPEG into Home Assistant.

To enable this camera in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
camera:
  - platform: mjpeg
    mjpeg_url: http://192.168.1.92/mjpeg

Configuration variables:

  • mjpeg_url (Required): The URL your camera serves the video on, eg. http://192.168.1.21:2112/
  • still_image_url (Optional): The URL for thumbnail picture if camera support that.
  • name (Optional): This parameter allows you to override the name of your camera.
  • username (Optional): The username for accessing your camera.
  • password (Optional): The password for accessing your camera.
  • authentication (Optional): basic (default) or digest auth for requests.

There is a known issue in urllib3 that you will get error messages in your logs like [StartBoundaryNotFoundDefect(), MultipartInvariantViolationDefect()], unparsed data: '' but the component still works fine. You can ignore the messages.

Examples

Example of using a DCS-930L Wireless N Network Camera from D-Link:

camera:
  - platform: mjpeg
    name: Livingroom Camera
    still_image_url: http://IP/image.jpg
    mjpeg_url: http://IP/video/mjpg.cgi