Camera Camera Gallery Card v2.0.0 — Live View Overhaul & FileTrack Integration

What's new in v2.0.0

This release brings a major overhaul of the live view experience. The mute button now works reliably,
camera stream flickering has been resolved, and you can now control exactly which cameras appear in
the live picker — and in what order. The editor has been redesigned in several places, replacing plain
dropdowns with a modern tag-input style that shows both the friendly name and entity ID for easy
identification.

Fixed

• Mute button in live view not working — the mute state was being reset on every screen refresh internally; this has been fixed
• Camera stream flickering in live view — the stream was unnecessarily reloading on every minor update; this has been fixed
• Removed redundant Autoplay toggle from Live tab — a live camera always autoplays, so the toggle served no purpose

Added

• Media folder browser now starts at the root — instead of opening directly in Frigate, the browser now starts at the top level so you can navigate to any media source (issue #6)
• Separate Auto muted setting for live view and gallery — both now work independently from each other
• Mute button in live view overlay — shown as a pill button next to the camera name and picker button
• Autoplay and Auto muted toggles in Viewer tab — these apply only to the gallery viewer, not to live view
• Configurable camera picker — choose which cameras appear in the live picker; by default all cameras are shown (live_camera_entities) (issue #9)
• Entity ID visible in picker and editor — shown next to the friendly name in a dimmed style, making it easier to identify the right camera
• Camera list improvements in editor — cameras are listed vertically with a position number, and can be drag-and-dropped to change order — including on mobile
• Default live camera redesigned — replaced the plain dropdown with the same modern tag-input style used for the camera picker
• Warning when default camera is not in the filtered picker list — an inline warning is shown directly in the editor
• Cover / Contain option for media display — choose whether images and videos fill the thumbnail (cover) or are shown in full without cropping (contain) (issue #7)

FileTrack

Camera Gallery Card can display images and videos from a local folder on your Home Assistant server.
To make this work, it needs a sensor that watches that folder and reports its contents. That is exactly
what FileTrack does. And the best thing is, no fiddling with YAML, you can make the sensor and destination map for the media from inside the editor!

FileTrack is a custom Home Assistant integration that monitors a folder and exposes its files as a sensor entity. It is a fork of files by TarheelGrad1998, which has since been archived. FileTrack picks up where that project left off and continues active development.

Why FileTrack and not something else?
It is lightweight, easy to set up, and integrates directly with this card. Once installed, the built-in wizard in the card editor can create a new sensor for you in seconds — no YAML required.

How to install

1. Open HACS in Home Assistant and add https://github.com/TheScubadiver/FileTrack as a custom repository
2. Search for FileTrack and install it
3. Restart Home Assistant
4. Go to Settings → Devices & Services, click Add integration and search for FileTrack and install
5. Open the Camera Gallery Card editor, go to the General tab and use the Create new FileTrack sensor wizard to create a sensor pointing to your media folder
6. Select the newly created sensor in the card config — done

Full Changelog: v1.9.2...v2.0.0