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Home Assistant custom component for viewing cameras connected to a MIPC account.

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MIPC Camera

HACS Custom

⚠️ Not maintained

Home Assistant custom component for viewing cameras connected to a MIPC account.

Site : http://www.mipcm.com/download/

App : https://www.mipcm.com/

Description available on the website : MIPC is a mobile real-time video surveillance software used with Cloud IP Camera. Through this client, you can view your home, shops, offices and other places at any time in real-time video and video history, also receive immediate alert to the place of abnormal information alarm, and take safety precautions at the first time.

Currently, the integration can only load video streams from cameras added to the MIPC account.

Installation

HACS

Requirements :

Shortcut :

  1. Open https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/hacs_repository/?owner=0xybo&repository=homeassistant-mipc-camera&category=integration and follow the instructions until you see the repository README on Home Assistant.

    Open your Home Assistant instance and open a repository inside the Home Assistant Community Store.

  2. Go to installation step 7.

Installation :

  1. Go to HACS Integrations section.
  2. In the top right-hand corner, open the menu and click on Custom repositories.
  3. Enter https://github.com/0xybo/homeassistant-mipc-camera in repositoy field.
  4. Select integration as category.
  5. Then click on Add.
  6. In Integrations section click on MIPC Camera card.
  7. At bottom right, click Download and then Download in the popup window.
  8. Restart Home Assistant.

Manual

  1. Using the tool of choice open the directory for your HA configuration (where you find configuration.yaml).
  2. If you do not have a custom_components directory there, you need to create it.
  3. In the custom_components directory create a new folder called mipc_camera.
  4. Download all the files from the custom_components/mipc_camera/ directory in this repository.
  5. Place the files you downloaded in the new directory you created.
  6. Restart Home Assistant.

Configuration

Shortcut :

  1. Open https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/config_flow_start/?domain=mipc_camera and follow the instructions until the configuration pop-up window appears on Home Assistant.

    Open your Home Assistant instance and start setting up a new integration.

  2. Go to configuration step 5.

Configuration :

  1. In the Home Assistant UI go to Configuration.
  2. Click Integrations.
  3. Click + Add Integration.
  4. Search for mipc.
  5. Complete the form with your MIPC account information.
  6. The integration will then connect to your account and import all cameras under the identifier camera.mipc_camera_{{id}} where {{id}} is the camera's internal identifier.