ONVIF for Home Assistant (built-in integration)

About

ONVIF is a built-in integration that connects ONVIF-compatible network cameras to Home Assistant over the local network. It adds camera entities along with binary sensors, sensors, buttons and switches, including switches for autofocus, the IR lamp and the wiper. Cameras that support PTZ can be panned, tilted and zoomed through an action. Home Assistant can discover devices on the network and offer to add them, or the device can be searched for automatically or entered by host, port, username and password. Options cover webhooks, extra FFmpeg arguments, the RTSP transport mechanism and using the wall clock for timestamps. Setup is done in the UI, and a diagnostics file can be downloaded for bug reports.

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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.
Found by itself Home Assistant spots it on the network and offers to add it.
Updated with Home Assistant Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release.

Provides

Cameras
Switches
Sensors

Setting it up

Home Assistant usually finds it on the network and offers to add it. It can also be added by hand under Settings, Devices and services.

ONVIF device setup

Search automatically

Configure ONVIF device

HostThe hostname or IP address of your ONVIF device.
Name
Password
Port
Username

Configure profiles

Create camera entity

Select ONVIF device

Select discovered ONVIF device

Reauthenticate the ONVIF device

Password
Username

After setup

Enable webhooks
Extra FFmpeg arguments
RTSP transport mechanism
Use wall clock as timestamps

Texts from Home Assistant's source code, Apache License 2.0.

Entities

SwitchesAutofocus, IR lamp, Wiper

Actions

PTZIf your ONVIF camera supports PTZ, you will be able to pan, tilt or zoom your camera.Fields: Continuous duration, Distance, Move Mode, Pan, Preset, Speed, Tilt, Zoom