Sonoff Camera GK-200MP2-B integration with Home Assistant and Node-RED using RTSP

In this video I will unbox the latest Sonoff GK-200MP2-B camera that has RTSP support, 360 degree viewing angle, 1080p, night vision, motion detection, two-way audio and it cost around 30 US dollars. After that I will connect it to Home Assistant & Node-RED.

Buy the camera from:

• AliExpress – http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_sVWd1j
• Banggood – https://www.banggood.com/custlink/mD3KQuvO8U
• Directly from Sonoff / ITEAD – https://shrsl.com/2qq3u

For the Home Assistant:

You will need the FFMPEG tool installed on the same device where the Home Assistant is installed. If you followed my tutorial here: https://youtu.be/5JMNHuHv134

or my article here:

https://peyanski.com/raspberry-pi-as-smart-home-hub-video-tutorial/

then you have FFMPEG installed and you are good to go. Otherwise you’ll have to find a way to install it.

Add the lines below to your configuration.yaml file in Home Assistant. Don’t forget to replace the RTSP link with yours

 camera:
   - platform: ffmpeg
      name: sonoff cam
      input: -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://rtsp:[email protected]:554/av_stream/ch0 

The Sonoff camera is now working with Home Assistant, now I will try to integrate it with Node-RED

For the Node-RED

You will need the FFMPEG tool installed on the same device where the Node-RED is installed, if not then install it using the following

1. Enter inside your Node-RED Docker image by using:
   docker exec -it nodered /bin/bash
2. Then update and install ffmpeg using: 
   1. For Alpine linux use APK package manager:
      apk update && apk add ffmpeg
   2. For Debian based Linux distributions use:
      sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
3. In Node-RED graphical interface through the Manage pallete – add these two plugins:
   1. node-red-contrib-image-tools
   2. node-red-contrib-image-output
4. Copy and paste the lines below in the Node-RED using the ‘import’ functionality.

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Question for you?

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