Home Assistant

FFmpeg Camera

The ffmpeg platform allows you to use every video feed with FFmpeg as camera in Home Assistant.

You need a ffmpeg binary in your system path. On debain 8 you can install it from backports. If you want HW support on raspberry you need self build from source. Windows binary are avilable on ffmpeg homepage.

To enable your FFmpeg feed in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
camera:
  - platform: ffmpeg
    input: FFMPEG_SUPPORTED_INPUT
    name: FFmpeg
    ffmpeg_bin: /usr/bin/ffmpeg
    extra_arguments: -q:v 2

Configuration variables:

  • input (Required): A ffmpeg compatible input file, stream or feed.
  • name (Optional): This parameter allows you to override the name of your camera.
  • ffmpeg_bin (Optional): Default ‘ffmpeg’.
  • extra_arguments (Optional): Extra option they will pass to ffmpeg. i.e. image quality or video filter options.

Image quality

You can control the image quality with extra_arguments -q:v 2-32 or with lossless option -pred 1.