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layout: component
title: "Generic IP Camera"
description: "Instructions how to integrate IP cameras within Home Assistant."
date: 2015-07-11 0:36
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ha_category: Camera
---


This component allows you to integrate any IP camera into Home Assistant. It supports fetching images from a url with optional HTTP authentication.

Home Assistant will serve the images via its server, making it possible to view your IP camera's while outside of your network.

As part of the basic support the following features will be provided:

- MJPEG video streaming
- Saving a snapshot
- Recording(JPEG frame capture)

To enable this sensor in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
camera:
  platform: generic
  still_image_url: http://194.218.96.92/jpg/image.jpg
  name: my sample camera
  username: USERNAME
  password: PASSWORD
```

Configuration variables:

- **still_image_url** *Required*: The URL your camera serves the image on, eg. http://192.168.1.21:2112/
- **name** *Optional*: This parameter allows you to override the name of your camera.
- **username** *Optional*: The username for accessing your camera.
- **password** *Optional*: The password for accessing your camera.
