core: Amcrest cameras not working after upgrading to 2021.9.1
The problem
After upgrading to 2021.9.1 all my Amcrest cameras no longer stream in Lovelace, and produce this log message: “Error requesting stream: Camera is off”
Cameras continue to work directly or through eg. ZoneMinder or VLC.
The same cameras worked in a recent previous version, which I believe was 2021.7.
This may be related to #55550
What is version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?
core-2021.9.1
What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?
core-2021.7
What type of installation are you running?
Home Assistant Container
Integration causing the issue
Amcrest
Link to integration documentation on our website
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/amcrest/
Example YAML snippet
ffmpeg:
stream:
amcrest:
# IP4M-1025E
- host: SNIP
username: SNIP
password: SNIP
name: SNIP
stream_source: rtsp
Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?
Logger: homeassistant.components.camera
Source: components/camera/__init__.py:692
Integration: Camera (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 9:37:21 AM (8 occurrences)
Last logged: 9:37:27 AM
Error requesting stream: Camera is off
### Additional information
_No response_About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 3 years ago
- Comments: 16 (6 by maintainers)
Commits related to this issue
- Bump amcrest version to 1.8.1 The current version of the `amcrest` package has a bug in exposing if the video stream is enabled, which leads to the substream status being used to set if the camera is... — committed to flacjacket/core by flacjacket 3 years ago
- Bump amcrest version to 1.8.1 (#56058) The current version of the `amcrest` package has a bug in exposing if the video stream is enabled, which leads to the substream status being used to set if th... — committed to home-assistant/core by flacjacket 3 years ago
- Bump amcrest version to 1.8.1 (#56058) The current version of the `amcrest` package has a bug in exposing if the video stream is enabled, which leads to the substream status being used to set if th... — committed to brianegge/core by flacjacket 3 years ago
- Bump amcrest version to 1.8.1 (#56058) The current version of the `amcrest` package has a bug in exposing if the video stream is enabled, which leads to the substream status being used to set if th... — committed to home-assistant/core by flacjacket 3 years ago
This fix should be available in 2021.9.6!
I think I know how to re-create this error. I’ve proved it by doing it. Login to the Amcrest camera setup web page for the camera that is NOT working, Under the setup, camera, video setting make sure the Sub Stream is ENABLED. Save this setting. Restart home assistant. Check your camera should be working.
To prove this, on mine anyways, I DISABLED the sub stream saved restarted home assistant and got “camera off” message, Re ENABLED the substream, saved, restarted Home assistant and the camera was working again.