This custom component for Home Assistant allows you to use the Pan and Tilt functions of Chinese cameras that do not fully comply with the ONVIF protocol.
This is a fork from original project available at https://github.com/fjramirez1987/PTZ-YCC365
For some reason, the Home Assistant ONVIF integration does not work with cameras that use the YCC365 Plus, Y05 or YOOSEE apps.
When using ONVIF Device Manager application from PC application it is possible to use pan and tilt functions.
Apparently, these cameras do not fully comply with the ONVIF protocol and the Home Assistant integration cannot integrate them at the moment.
This is a solution to use the pan and tilt functions into Home Assistant cards.
In order to use this custom component, capture your camera signal with motionEye, or Generic Camera.
- YCC365 cameras do not require user and password to connect to ONVIF controls
- Y05 and YOOSEE cameras must have the user and password defined before using ONVIF controls. Check into your camera manual or search on Google how to setup it.
- YOOSEE cameras do not accept preset positions, just pan and tilt.
- For YOOSEE cameras this control works based on move steps, the quantity of times it will be required to move until the desired position. The best that could be done so far.
- This component does not integrate the video signal from your cameras, only the pan and tilt functions.
You need to install the custom component as usual. Copy the ptz_camera folder from this project to your /config/custom_components/ directory on your Home Assistant.
If using cameras which relies on apps YOOSEE or Y05, you must set your encrypted password and encryption key into the file /config/custom_components/_init.py.
You don't need WireShark.
The password is based on native Onvif protocol. Here is also the core HA Onvif component this.
- If using YOOSEE cameras, firstly make sure to activate the option for "NVR connection" into camera settings in the app.
- Copy them and modify the file
/config/custom_components/ptz_camera/_init.pyto add your camera's information. - Add the
ptz_camera:entry into yourconfiguration.yamlfile. - Restart Home Assistant.
- Setup your card with controls (see below) and try your camera with pan and tilt controls (no zoom, but full view with webRTC option is possible. See Y05 and YCC365 examples).
This custom component creates several services with domain ptz_camera. To obtain information about these services you can use “Developer Tools” > Services. It will have detailed information about the arguments to call each service.
You can create a camera in the usual way, with Generic Camera. I recommend you to use the motionEye addon and create a mjpeg camera. It is the best setting I have found with a low delay. An example configuration would be:
camera:
- platform: mjpeg
name: camera_1
mjpeg_url: http://192.168.1.111:8083An easy way to use the pan and tilt controls is to overlay the controls on top of a camera image. Replace the IP address in this example with the IP address of your camera.
Example for YOOSEE camera.
type: picture-elements
camera_view: live
camera_image: camera.camera_1
elements:
- type: icon
icon: mdi:arrow-left-drop-circle
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_left
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: YOOSEE
move_time: 0.7
style:
bottom: 45%
left: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)
- type: icon
icon: mdi:arrow-right-drop-circle
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_right
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: YOOSEE
move_time: 0.7
style:
bottom: 45%
right: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)
- type: icon
icon: mdi:arrow-up-drop-circle
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_up
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: YOOSEE
move_time: 0.7
style:
top: 10%
left: 46%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)
- type: icon
icon: mdi:arrow-down-drop-circle
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_down
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: YOOSEE
move_time: 0.7
style:
bottom: 10%
left: 46%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)
- type: icon
icon: mdi:home-circle
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_origin
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: YOOSEE
move_time: 0.7
move_steps: 29
style:
bottom: 5%
right: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)
- type: icon
icon: mdi:cctv-off
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_privacy
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: YOOSEE
move_time: 0.7
style:
bottom: 5%
left: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)Example for Y05 camera:
type: picture-elements
camera_view: live
camera_image: camera.camera_1
elements:
- type: icon
icon: mdi:arrow-left-drop-circle
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_left
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: Y05
style:
bottom: 45%
left: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)
- type: icon
icon: mdi:arrow-right-drop-circle
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_right
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: Y05
style:
bottom: 45%
right: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)
- type: icon
icon: mdi:arrow-up-drop-circle
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_up
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: Y05
style:
top: 10%
left: 46%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)
- type: icon
icon: mdi:arrow-down-drop-circle
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_down
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: Y05
style:
bottom: 10%
left: 46%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)
- type: icon
icon: mdi:arrow-expand-all
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: fire-dom-event
browser_mod:
command: popup
deviceID:
- this
title: Camera Full View
large: true
card:
type: custom:webrtc-camera
muted: true
url: rtsp://admin:xxxxxx@192.168.1.244:8554/profile0
style:
top: 5%
right: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)
- type: icon
icon: mdi:home-circle
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_origin
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: Y05
move_time: 0.7
style:
bottom: 5%
right: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)
- type: icon
icon: mdi:cctv-off
hold_action:
action: none
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_privacy
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
camera_type: Y05
style:
bottom: 5%
left: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: scale(1.5, 1.5)Example for YCC365
type: picture-elements
camera_view: live
camera_image: camera.salon
elements:
- type: icon
icon: 'mdi:arrow-left-drop-circle'
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_left
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
style:
bottom: 45%
left: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: 'scale(1.5, 1.5)'
- type: icon
icon: 'mdi:arrow-right-drop-circle'
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_right
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
style:
bottom: 45%
right: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: 'scale(1.5, 1.5)'
- type: icon
icon: 'mdi:arrow-up-drop-circle'
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_up
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
style:
top: 10%
left: 46%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: 'scale(1.5, 1.5)'
- type: icon
icon: 'mdi:arrow-down-drop-circle'
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: ptz_camera.move_down
service_data:
host: 192.168.1.244
style:
bottom: 10%
left: 46%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: 'scale(1.5, 1.5)'
- type: icon
icon: 'mdi:arrow-expand-all'
tap_action:
action: more-info
entity: camera.salon
style:
top: 5%
right: 5%
color: white
opacity: 0.5
transform: 'scale(1.5, 1.5)'