Foscam

The foscam platform allows you to watch the live stream of your Foscam IP camera in Home Assistant.

Configuration

To add the Foscam integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Supported functionality

Entities

The Foscam integration provides the following entities.

Camera

• Streams
  • Description: Most Foscam IP Cameras support two video streams, by default the Main stream is the high quality stream while the Sub stream is a lower quality stream. These streams can be configured in your camera preferences.
  • Available for machines: all.

Switch

• Infrared

  • Description: Control the camera’s infrared illuminator.
  • Available for machines: all.

• Device indicator light

  • Description: Control the camera’s status indicator.
  • Available for machines: all.

• White light

  • Description: Control the camera’s white light illuminator.
  • Available for machines: Cameras equipped with white light illumination.
  • Remarks: Since there is currently no mechanism to determine device capabilities for conditionally displaying the white light switch, unsupported models will still show the switch — but in a disabled state. This will be refined in a future update.

• Siren alarm

  • Description: Control the device’s alarm.
  • Available for machines: all.

• Image flip/mirror

  • Description: Toggle image flip/mirror on the device.
  • Available for machines: all.

• Sleep

  • Description: Toggle sleep mode, when enabled, the device enters sleep state.
  • Available for machines: all.

• HDR

  • Description: Toggle the camera’s HDR, when enabled, the image will reveal more detail in shadows and highlights.
  • Available for machines: all.

• WDR

  • Description: Toggle the camera’s WDR, when enabled, the image will reveal more detail in shadows and highlights.
  • Available for machines: all.

Number

• Device volume

  • Description: Adjust the volume of device alert sounds, such as alarms and power on/off tones.
  • Available for machines: all.

• Speak volume

  • Description: Adjust the device’s intercom volume.
  • Available for machines: all.

Action foscam.ptz

• Control the device’s PTZ functions
  • Description: If your Foscam camera supports PTZ, you will be able to pan or tilt your camera.

• Available for machines: Devices with PTZ functionality.

Action foscam.ptz_preset

• Direct the device to a specified preset position.
  • Description: If your Foscam camera supports PTZ presets, you will be able to move the camera to a predefined preset using the preset name.

• Available for machines: Devices with PTZ functionality.

Example card with controls

Example showing a Foscam camera with controls for Pan and Tilt.

Using the following card code you can achieve a card displaying the live video feed from a Foscam camera with controls for moving the camera at the bottom right corner.

type: picture-elements
image: camera.bedroom
camera_image: camera.bedroom
camera_view: live
elements:
  - type: icon
    icon: "mdi:arrow-up"
    style:
      background: "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)"
      right: 25px
      bottom: 50px
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: foscam.ptz
      target:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
      data:
        movement: up
  - type: icon
    icon: "mdi:arrow-down"
    style:
      background: "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)"
      right: 25px
      bottom: 0px
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: foscam.ptz
      target:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
      data:
        movement: down
  - type: icon
    icon: "mdi:arrow-left"
    style:
      background: "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)"
      right: 50px
      bottom: 25px
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: foscam.ptz
      target:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
      data:
        movement: left
  - type: icon
    icon: "mdi:arrow-right"
    style:
      background: "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)"
      right: 0px
      bottom: 25px
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: foscam.ptz
      target:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
      data:
        movement: right
  - type: icon
    icon: "mdi:arrow-top-left"
    style:
      background: "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)"
      right: 50px
      bottom: 50px
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: foscam.ptz
      target:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
      data:
        movement: top_left
  - type: icon
    icon: "mdi:arrow-top-right"
    style:
      background: "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)"
      right: 0px
      bottom: 50px
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: foscam.ptz
      target:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
      data:
        movement: top_right
  - type: icon
    icon: "mdi:arrow-bottom-left"
    style:
      background: "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)"
      right: 50px
      bottom: 0px
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: foscam.ptz
      target:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
      data:
        movement: bottom_left
  - type: icon
    icon: "mdi:arrow-bottom-right"
    style:
      background: "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)"
      right: 0px
      bottom: 0px
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: foscam.ptz
      target:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
      data:
        movement: bottom_right

Extra CGI Commands

Foscam Webcams which support CGI Commands can be controlled by Home Assistant (Source).