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---
title: Stream
description: Instructions on how to integrate live streams within Home Assistant.
ha_category:
- Other
ha_release: '0.90'
ha_iot_class: Local Push
ha_quality_scale: internal
ha_codeowners:
- '@hunterjm'
ha_domain: stream
---
The `stream` integration provides a way to proxy live streams through Home Assistant. The integration currently only supports proxying H.264 source streams to the HLS format and requires at least FFmpeg >= 3.2.
## Configuration
To enable this component, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml` file:
```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
stream:
```
### Services
Once loaded, the `stream` platform will expose services that can be called to perform various actions.
#### Service `record`
Make a `.mp4` recording from a provided stream. While this service can be called directly, it is used internally by the [`camera.record`](/integrations/camera#service-record) service.
Both `duration` and `lookback` options are suggestions, but should be consistent per stream. The actual length of the recording may vary. It is suggested that you tweak these settings to fit your needs.
| Service data attribute | Optional | Description |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `stream_source` | no | The input source for the stream, e.g., `rtsp://my.stream.feed:554`. |
| `filename` | no | The file name string. e.g., `/tmp/my_stream.mp4`. |
| `duration` | yes | Target recording length (in seconds). Default: 30 |
| `lookback` | yes | Target lookback period (in seconds) to include in addition to duration. Only available if there is currently an active HLS stream for `stream_source`. Default: 0 |
The path part of `filename` must be an entry in the `whitelist_external_dirs` in your [`homeassistant:`](/docs/configuration/basic/) section of your `configuration.yaml` file.
For example, the following action in an automation would take a recording from `rtsp://my.stream.feed:554` and save it to `/config/www`.
```yaml
action:
service: camera.record
data:
entity_id: camera.quintal
filename: '/config/www/my_stream.mp4'
duration: 30
```
## Streaming in Lovelace
As of Home Assistant version 0.92 you can now live-stream a camera feed directly in lovelace.
To do this add either [picture-entity](/lovelace/picture-entity/), [picture-glance](/lovelace/picture-glance/) or [picture-elements](/lovelace/picture-elements/), set `camera_image` to a stream-ready camera entity and set `camera_view` to `live` in one of your Lovelace views.
## Troubleshooting
Some users on manual installs may see the following error in their logs after restarting:
```text
2019-03-12 08:49:59 ERROR (SyncWorker_5) [homeassistant.util.package] Unable to install package av==6.1.2: Command "/home/pi/home-assistant/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-udfl2b3t/av/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-ftn5zmh2/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/pi/home-assistant/include/site/python3.6/av" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-udfl2b3t/av/
2019-03-12 08:49:59 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.requirements] Not initializing stream because could not install requirement av==6.1.2
2019-03-12 08:49:59 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for stream: Could not install all requirements.
```
If you see this error you can solve it by running the following commands and restarting Home Assistant (commands do not need to be ran as the `homeassistant` user):
```text
sudo apt-get install -y python-dev pkg-config libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libavresample-dev libavfilter-dev
```