7.0.0

[JurajNyiri]

7.0.0 🎥 1️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ • 0️⃣ • 0️⃣

New Features

Stream on battery, solar & hub devices

Integration now supports video stream through proprietary TP-Link protocol - called Direct stream. These Direct stream camera entities will automatically show up as enabled HD (Direct) and SD (Direct) (disabled by default), if RTSP streaming is not available for your camera.
If you have RTSP entities already, Direct entities will be disabled by default, but can be manually enabled.

Why use the new streams?

1. If you have a device which does not have RTSP functionality, you now have a stream in HA. This includes battery devices, solar devices, as well as devices working through a hub. 🤯
2. If you have used up all your RTSP streams and/or your RTSP streams are unstable in Home Assistant.
3. They are extremely fast to load and have less than a half a second delay in stream* (*make sure to DISABLE Use Stream from Home Assistant (restart required) in integration options for the fastest experience and best battery life). Measured delay is lower than RTSP with go2rtc. Under the hood, the new streams are a binary stream of data "straight to your browser", with no unnecessary translations or overhead.

Why not use the new Direct streams?

If you have an option to use RTSP, consider sticking with RTSP streams.

1. Direct streams take a bit more CPU resources since the device running this integration is now handling the binary stream directly, instead of camera exposing a standardized RTSP stream.
2. Direct streams cannot be used with webrtc card, or go2rtc.
3. RTSP streams are very fast with almost no delay with webrtc camera card

Recording downloads on battery, solar & hub devices & Media Sync

Similarly to streams, recorded videos can now be viewed inside Home Assistant on all cameras out there, including solar, battery, or hub devices.

They can be also automatically synced using the Media Sync.

Fixes

• Fix Configuration fails without cloud password #1006: Edge case where adding a camera failed
• Fix Requires HA restart when reloading Tapo Camera Control integration #1001: Edge case where reloading an integration required Home Assistant restart

Thank you

• @GracefulTabby for initial research & code on recordings download for hub devices
• @rivergo1d for sharing his D230 doorbell with me allowing me to quickly test all the changes

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This discussion was created from the release 7.0.0.

[bkintanar]

Thank you for this update @JurajNyiri !!!

In HA Dashboard

HA iOS App

[back-2-95]

I installed 7.0.0 successfully (connection needed to be "tried" twice as someone suggested) but I have all Controls, Sensors, Configuration as disabled and cannot enable them. What am I missing?

[back-2-95]

Does this mean manual editing of some json files 🙈

[JurajNyiri]

Lol. Possibly, it is the easiest way for myself since google did not really tell me where to change that.

Make backup of .storage/core.config_entries, turn off ha.

In that file, look for any value of key disabled_by that is not null, easy way to do it is to search for "disabled_by":", then simply change it to "disabled_by":null and start HA.

[JurajNyiri]

And you might need to do the same for core.device_registry and/or core.entity_registry.

[JurajNyiri]

There is most likely a UI way to do it, but I do not know where.

[back-2-95]

I'm using SSH connection and vim or nano to edit those. It's pain.

[andreabafile]

Now that camera stream has been successfully decoded for battery cameras (successfully tested on C425), any chance motion sensor could also be included?

[JurajNyiri]

#273 (comment)

[GSzabados]

@JurajNyiri, I just tried the Direct Streams, and I feel a bit it is a hit and miss. If the camera thinks that all the RTSP slots are used, then it does not provide Direct feed either. I had to disable to local SD Card recording to get back in control of the camera, then the Direct ones started to work, and not fully again. The SD loads and displays video, but the HD one loads and displays video for about 1 second and then stays on that one image. No video for HD, just for SD. It is a quite awkward behaviour. The camera is C520WS, the C100 seems to be working without issues, but there the recording is not set to continuous recording to SD.

Any advise from the top of your head?

[GSzabados]

Also, another thing which I noticed, these Direct Streams are not offering Full Screen mode.