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title: "Foscam"
description: "Foscam is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 2.1k installs sharing analytics and works locally."
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last-updated: "2026-10-22"
version: "1.4"
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# Foscam

> Foscam is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 2.1k installs sharing analytics and works locally.

Foscam is a built-in integration that connects Foscam cameras to Home Assistant over the local network. It adds each camera as a camera entity, with a choice between the main stream and another stream type for video. Number entities cover device volume and speak volume. Switches cover detection for cars, humans and pets, along with flip, mirror, HDR, WDR, infrared mode, siren alarm, sleep mode, light and volume mute. Two actions move the camera, one toward a given direction and one to a saved preset position. Setup is done in the UI with the camera's host, port, RTSP port, username and password.

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## Supports

- **Works locally**: Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between.
- **Set up in the UI**: Add it in Settings, Devices and services. Nothing to download.
- **Updated with Home Assistant**: Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release.

## Setting it up

It is added under Settings, Devices and services, with Add integration.

### Connect

- **Host**: The hostname or IP address of your Foscam camera.
- **Password**: The password to log in to your Foscam camera.
- **Port**: The port of your Foscam camera, default is 88.
- **RTSP port**: The RTSP protocol port of the camera, used to pull the camera's real-time video stream. New model cameras only support RTSP ports 88 and 554, while old model cameras only support ports 88 and 65534.
- **Stream**: Select the video stream type to pull. The main stream offers higher clarity but requires a better network environment.
- **Username**: The username to log in to your Foscam camera.

Texts from Home Assistant's source code, [Apache License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

## Entities

- **Numbers**: Device volume, Speak volume
- **Switches**: Car detection, Flip, HDR, Human detection, Infrared mode, Mirror, Pet detection, Siren alarm, Sleep mode, Light, Volume muted, WDR, and 1 more

## Actions

- **PTZ**: Moves a Foscam camera to a specified direction.
  Fields: Movement, Travel time
- **PTZ preset**: Moves a Foscam camera to a predefined position.
  Fields: Preset name

## At a glance

- Kind: Built-in integration
- Category: [Security and safety](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/security-and-safety.md), Cameras
- Brand: Foscam
- Number: 2.1k installs sharing analytics
- Connection: Works locally
- Upkeep: Part of Home Assistant
- Needs: Built into Home Assistant
- Domain: `foscam`
- Source: <https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/foscam/>

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Last updated 2026-10-22. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/foscam

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