ICSee PTZ control integration for Home Assistant

Home Assistant integration to send ptz commands to ICSee/XMEye/DVR-IP/NetSurveillance/Sofia cameras.

It can also set presets and recall them and synchronize the camera clock.

Installation

Option 1: HACS Link

1. Click
2. Restart Home Assistant

Option 2: HACS

1. Or HACS > Integrations > ⋮ > Custom Repositories
2. Repository: paste the url of this repo
3. Category: Integration
4. Click Add
5. Close Custom Repositories modal
6. Click + EXPLORE & DOWNLOAD REPOSITORIES
7. Search for icsee
8. Click Download
9. Restart Home Assistant

Option 2: Manual copy

1. Copy the icsee_ptz folder inside custom_components of this repo to /config/custom_components in your Home Assistant instance
2. Restart Home Assistant

Configuration

Go to the integration and add an entry for each of your cameras

Usage

This integration exposes services for PTZ and a motion alarm entity.

Motion alarm

First make sure to enable and configure motion alarms in the standard camera application (e.g ICSee or XMEye). Then, you can use the provided entity in your automations.

Pan, tilt, zoom (PTZ)

icsee_ptz.move: move, zoom and set/goto preseets.

Requires:

• WebRTC integration v3.2.0 - 2023-07-11

Test PTZ control from .

Example automation

alias: Notify camera motion alarm
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.garden_motion_alarm
    to: "on"
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_pixel_7
    data:
      message: TTS
      data:
        tts_text: Attention: motion detected in garden
        ttl: 0
        priority: high
mode: single

Usage in WebRTC card:

# lovelace card
type: custom:webrtc-camera
url: garden_dvrip
ui: true
shortcuts:
  services:
    - name: Sync
      icon: mdi:clock-check
      service: icsee_ptz.synchronize_clock
      service_data:
        entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
    - name: Force frame
      icon: mdi:play
      service: icsee_ptz.force_frame
      service_data:
        entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
ptz:
  service: icsee_ptz.move
  data_home:
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
    cmd: GotoPreset
    preset: 0
  data_long_home:
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
    cmd: SetPreset
    preset: 0
  data_start_left:
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
    cmd: DirectionLeft
  data_end_left:
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
    cmd: Stop
  data_start_right:
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
    cmd: DirectionRight
  data_end_right:
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
    cmd: Stop
  data_start_down:
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
    cmd: DirectionDown
  data_end_down:
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
    cmd: Stop
  data_start_up:
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
    cmd: DirectionUp
  data_end_up:
    entity_id: binary_sensor.garten_motion_alarm
    cmd: Stop

Video stream from go2rtc

# go2rtc.yaml
streams:
  garden_dvrip:
    - dvrip://admin:my_password@192.168.178.104:34567
  garden_dvrip_mini:
    - dvrip://admin:my_password@192.168.178.104:34567?channel=0&subtype=1
  garden: # try this if the video is choppy or audio is out of synch
    - ffmpeg:garden_dvrip#audio=copy#async#video=copy#async

Entities

Note

There are some disabled entities, But you can enable them on

Settings -> Devices & Services -> ICSee -> Configure -> Enable experimental entities

Entity	Description	Enabled by default
switch.*_blinddetect_enabled		No
select.*_white_light	You can control camera's lights.	No
switch.*_humandetection_enabled		No
switch.*_lossdetect_enabled		No
binary_sensor.*_varanda_motion_alarm	It will be trigged when someone pass on front of camera.	Yes
switch.*_motiondetect_enabled		No

Miscelaneous

With https://xmeye.org/xmeye-for-pc/ you can configure the fps and encoding params of ICSee cameras.

Recommended configuration:

in device config / encode config select:

• fps: 30 (maximum available)
• Iframe interval: 1 (minimum available)
• Static encode config: high profile
• H264+ enable: disabled

in device config / camera param select:

• Clear fog: ON
• Level: 100