Setting up the Guardian Eye camera dashboard in Home Assistant

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Your cameras have appeared in Home Assistant through MQTT, but you still need to turn all those entities into something useful: a picture, recording controls and a way to see which camera has gone offline. Doing that again for each camera gets tedious.

I work on Guardian Eye. Our dashboard builds an NVR overview and a card for each camera from the discovered entities. Adding or removing a camera updates the panel, without copying entity IDs or editing dashboard YAML.

Start with Home Assistant 2026.5 or newer, with HA and Guardian Eye connected to the same MQTT broker. Check that the cameras are visible under the MQTT integration first.

1. In Guardian Eye's Home Assistant settings, find the Guardian Eye Dashboard section. Click Check for update, then copy the resource URL.
2. In HA, enable Advanced mode in your profile. Open Settings, Dashboards, the three-dot menu, then Resources.
3. Add the copied URL as a JavaScript module and hard-refresh the browser.
4. Open Settings, Dashboards, Add dashboard. Select Guardian Eye under Community dashboards, then create the panel.

The camera cards show connection status, recording mode and the latest detection snapshot. That image updates on events. Try changing one camera's recording mode in HA and check that Guardian Eye receives it.

The dashboard is MIT licensed. It needs Guardian Eye, which has free and paid tiers.

Full setup guide with screenshots
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