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The generic camera platform allows you to integrate any IP camera into Home Assistant. It supports fetching images from a url with optional HTTP authentication.

Home Assistant will serve the images via its server, making it possible to view your IP camera's while outside of your network. The endpoint is /api/camera_proxy/camera.[name]?time=[timestamp].

To enable this camera in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
camera:
  platform: generic
  still_image_url: http://194.218.96.92/jpg/image.jpg
  name: my sample camera
  username: USERNAME
  password: PASSWORD
  authentication: basic

Configuration variables:

• still_image_url (Required): The URL your camera serves the image on, eg. http://192.168.1.21:2112/
• name (Optional): This parameter allows you to override the name of your camera.
• username (Optional): The username for accessing your camera.
• password (Optional): The password for accessing your camera.
• authentication (Optional): basic (default) or digest auth for requests.