If you plan to add the RTSP feed to Home Assistant, You should also have it installed and running. You can also learn how to access your Pi over SSH if you want to build a headless system. If you need to install the latest version of Raspbian, go check out my Raspbian installation tutorial. You can also use a USB or other camera connected to your Pi. If you are looking to add a Raspberry Pi camera connected to the same Pi that you use for your Home Assistant server, see this page on the Home Assistant website.įor this tutorial I will be using a Raspberry Pi 4 and the official Pi camera. This should be separate from your Home Assistant server as this tutorial is for configuring a remote Raspberry Pi camera.

You will need a Raspberry Pi and a camera connected, like the official Pi camera. However as this method is headless, it requires fewer resources and is ideal for your Raspberry Pi Zero W.

I will be using a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspbian Lite for maximum performance. We will do this keeping the complexity of the terminal commands to a minimum. In this tutorial we will learn how to set up a headless lightweight RTSP server on a Raspberry Pi and then add the stream source to Home Assistant. This method works great with the official Raspberry Pi camera! Here’s how my working config.json looks (just with a lot more cameras and sensitive info removed) - Note: The supported types have nothing to do with getting the cameras to work - those are just the ones I’m using for other HomeKit automation.It took me a while to refine this method, however I eventually collated a variety of information together to make this super-simple for you. You can validate it here (just replace usernames, passwords, and other sensitive info before posting: “source”: “-re -i “stillImageSource”: “-f mjpeg -i “maxStreams”: 2,

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