homebridge-camera-ffmpeg VS homebridge-camera-ui

homebridge-camera-ffmpeg hasn't been updated in several years and it was having issues even back then. I'd probably consider it to be a dead plugin.

So I bought a couple TP-link C100 cameras and paired them with Homebridge and Homekit with the camera-ffmpeg plugin. Everything works fine, except motion detection. I’ve tried the suggested workaround creating a dummy companion switch for the cameras, the switch gets created but only triggers a notification if I trigger it manually.

I am using the homebridge-camera-ffmpeg package https://github.com/Sunoo/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg

Here is an Instar Camera example config from somebody who . I tried it, but it doesn't work.

https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui maybe?

You need a plug in called Camera.UI. It’s great, I use it with my Wyze cams.

You can use virtually any IP camera you want thanks to HomeBridge. I am currently using a Yi cam that I hacked then I’m using HomeBridge and camera-ui.ip plug-in for it. Not the most straightforward, but the cheapest, and setting up HomeBridge unlocks so many possibilities with smart wifi things that are not HomeKit native.

camera.ui

I use https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui with my RLC-523WA and it also supports Homekit Secure Video.

Now that this is a Homebridge Raspberry Pi, I can't find any plugins allowing me to use the camera. Only RTSP plugins, like camera.ui (https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui)...

Recently I came across a new home bridge plug-in for rtsp cameras which enables HKSV support. Here it is https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui

Homebridge-camera-ui is very well maintained and works well. I’d use it over homebridgecamera-ffmpeg for now, unfortunately the author of homebridge-camera-ffmpeg has had some difficulties lately and hasn’t had much time to update it.

homebridge-camera-ui