RTSP stream in Home Assistant

[CodeFatherG]

Hi! End goal is to use mqtt for state and rtsp for live view.

I am having trouble streaming this.

As per a previous discussion, vlc seems to timeout during connection. I was trying to get this running in home assistant somehow and from research was going to use the ffmpeg integration.

When I execute ffmpeg -i 'rtsp link' in terminal the docker logs show the following,

neolink  | [2024-05-12T10:46:29Z INFO  neolink::rtsp::stream] front_door_camera: Enabling Client
neolink  | [2024-05-12T10:47:06Z ERROR neolink::rtsp::stream] r: Err(App source is closed)
neolink  | [2024-05-12T10:47:06Z ERROR neolink::rtsp::stream] Exiting send_to_appsrc
neolink  | [2024-05-12T10:47:06Z INFO  neolink::rtsp::stream] front_door_camera: Pausing Client

Is there a recommended HA integration or even ffmpeg configuration I am missing to get the stream to work?

Is #253 possibly related causing timeouts?

Compose

version: '3.8'
services:
  neolink:
    image: quantumentangledandy/neolink:latest
    command: ["/usr/local/bin/neolink", "mqtt-rtsp", "--config=/etc/neolink.toml"]
    container_name: neolink
    ports:
      - 8554:8554
    volumes:
      - $PWD/neolink.toml:/etc/neolink.toml
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host

Config

# Expose on all networks
bind = "0.0.0.0"

# Define RTSP user
[[users]]
name = "admin"
pass = ...

# Front Camera
[[cameras]]
name = "front_door_camera"
discovery = "local"     # Discover local
username = "admin"      # Camera user
password = ...
address = "..."       # Reserved ip of camera
uid = "..."        # Camera UID
stream = "Main"
idle_disconnect = true          # Disconnect on idle for battery
  [cameras.pause]
  on_motion = true # Should pause when no motion
  on_client = true # Should pause when no rtsp client
[cameras.mqtt]
  [cameras.mqtt.discovery]
  topic = "homeassistant"       # Enable Discovery with the following controls
  features = ["Floodlight", "Camera", "Motion", "Reboot", "Battery", "Siren"]

[mqtt]
broker_addr = "127.0.0.1"       # local broker
port = 1883
credentials = ...

[EricLauber]

I have a similar goal to you. This discussion is a few months old, but I posted a similar issue here and we found that running the previous release v0.6.2 helped. It's possible there are new issues with using gstreamer that are on the master branch and are in the latest docker image.

I haven't settled on a configuration just yet, but using v0.6.2 I was able to add a Generic Camera in Home Assistant and use the rtsp stream, secure connection disabled, no credentials. I could add the camera to a dashboard, click to open it, and view the stream without issue.

[CodeFatherG]

I was on a specific branch due to discussion here.

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