Amcrest for Home Assistant (built-in integration)

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Amcrest is a built-in Home Assistant integration that connects Amcrest cameras and works locally. It provides binary sensors, cameras, sensors and switches, and it is configured in the configuration file. Actions cover PTZ control, including pan, tilt and zoom, moving the camera to a saved preset, and starting or stopping the camera's PTZ tour. Recording can be turned on or off, both for continuous recording and for clips recorded when motion is detected, with the footage kept in camera storage. Further actions enable or disable the audio stream and set the camera color mode.

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Supports

Works locally Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between.
Set up in YAML Added through configuration.yaml.
Updated with Home Assistant Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release.

Provides

Cameras
Switches
Sensors

Setting it up

It is set up in configuration.yaml, not in the UI.

Actions

Disable audioDisables audio stream.Fields: Entity
Disable motion recordingDisables recording a clip to camera storage when motion is detected.Fields: Entity
Disable recordingDisables continuous recording to camera storage.Fields: Entity
Enable audioEnables audio stream.Fields: Entity
Enable motion recordingEnables recording a clip to camera storage when motion is detected.Fields: Entity
Enable recordingEnables continuous recording to camera storage.Fields: Entity
Go to presetMoves camera to PTZ preset.Fields: Entity, Preset
PTZ controlMoves (pan/tilt) and/or zooms a PTZ camera.Fields: Entity, Movement, Travel time
Set colorSets camera color mode.Fields: Color, Entity
Start tourStarts camera's PTZ tour function.Fields: Entity
Stop tourStops camera's PTZ tour function.Fields: Entity