core: ONVIF integration is not working anymore, PTZ was not working before!

The problem

In the version before my ONVIF camera was working fine and showed a video without any problem. PTZ was not working, there is already an issue with it from me.

Environment

Home Assistant Core release with the issue: 0.110.0
Last working Home Assistant Core release (if known): 1.109.x
Operating environment (Home Assistant/Supervised/Docker/venv): HassOS on a Pi 4B
Integration causing this issue: ONVIF
Link to integration documentation on our website:

Problem-relevant `configuration.yaml`

This is the config I used before:

ffmpeg:

camera:
  - platform: onvif
    host: 192.168.178.32
    port: 5000
    username: <Username>
    password: <Password>
    rtsp_transport: udp
    extra_arguments: -rtsp_flags none -rtsp_transport udp -q:v 2 
    name: Rundum

Traceback/Error logs

These are the messages in the log:

2020-05-20 14:05:53 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.onvif] Couldn't get device 'Rundum' date/time. Error: None
2020-05-20 14:05:55 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.onvif] Couldn't connect to camera 'Rundum', but will retry later. Error: None
2020-05-20 14:05:55 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.config_entries] Config entry for onvif not ready yet. Retrying in 5 seconds.
2020-05-20 14:06:07 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.onvif] Couldn't get device 'Rundum' date/time. Error: None
2020-05-20 14:06:12 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.onvif] Couldn't connect to camera 'Rundum', but will retry later. Error: None
2020-05-20 14:06:12 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.config_entries] Config entry for onvif not ready yet. Retrying in 10 seconds.
2020-05-20 14:06:24 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.onvif] Couldn't get device 'Rundum' date/time. Error: None
2020-05-20 14:06:26 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.onvif] Couldn't connect to camera 'Rundum', but will retry later. Error: None
2020-05-20 14:06:26 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.config_entries] Config entry for onvif not ready yet. Retrying in 20 seconds.
2020-05-20 14:06:48 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.onvif] Couldn't get device 'Rundum' date/time. Error: None
2020-05-20 14:06:50 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.onvif] Couldn't connect to camera 'Rundum', but will retry later. Error: None
2020-05-20 14:06:50 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.config_entries] Config entry for onvif not ready yet. Retrying in 40 seconds.

Additional information

Now I set the name to “Rundum”, host to “192.168.178.32”, port to “5000”, username to the same username, password to the same password, extra options to: “-rtsp_flags none -rtsp_transport udp -q:v 2” and transport to “udp”. But it doesn’t work!

Here is the old issue with PTZ not working: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/34641

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 56 (17 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Also my cameras work with ODM.

Sorry @hunterjm but I do not understand. I get that this is a free project and we are extremely grateful for your efforts/work. But our cameras were working before the latest update.

I am not a professional coder but usually newer software versions improve things by extending support, not by breaking what was working before.

When I started using Home Assistant I was able to use my cameras with PTZ, then I had to switch to generic camera. Then ONVIF was working again but without PTZ. Now we have to switch back to generic camera…

It seems to me that the real problem is that every camera manufacturer does whatever he wants with ONVIF spec…

Veda82 on May 24, 2020

@hunterjm my bad, I didn’t express myself clearly.

My cameras work with the stream component only if you use the udp protocol instead of tcp, which is not working.

As far as I know, but I may be wrong, with the generic camera component it is not possible to select udp protocol.