Generic Camera - Set Stream Source service

[psyciknz]

Integration name

Generic Camera

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/generic/

Describe the enhancement

I'd like the ability to set the stream source dynamically. Rather than a fixed live rtsp stream.

Use cases

My NVR has a playback url, and so I've developed a workflow that upon event the playback url of now - 10 seconds - now + 10 second is posted to a text object.

While a generic camera can use a template variable - of which I've set the text object, a lot of the behind the scenes work is not visible to show if the correct url is being used etc.

The advantage of this method is that home assistant is not constantly trying to stream from the camera, it's using the cameras native methods for detection and then the user is able to select each one (I use an actionable link to that if there are 10 events with 10 different playback urls - then the url from that event is given to the camera to view).

Anything else?

No response

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