diff --git a/src/card.ts b/src/card.ts
index 18909c92..8d33002b 100644
--- a/src/card.ts
+++ b/src/card.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,12 @@ import type {
   Message,
 } from './types.js';
 
-import { CAMERA_BIRDSEYE, CARD_VERSION, MEDIA_PLAYER_SUPPORT_BROWSE_MEDIA, REPO_URL } from './const.js';
+import {
+  CAMERA_BIRDSEYE,
+  CARD_VERSION,
+  MEDIA_PLAYER_SUPPORT_BROWSE_MEDIA,
+  REPO_URL,
+} from './const.js';
 import { FrigateCardElements } from './components/elements.js';
 import { FrigateCardImage } from './components/image.js';
 import { FRIGATE_BUTTON_MENU_ICON, FrigateCardMenu } from './components/menu.js';
@@ -428,14 +433,23 @@ export class FrigateCard extends LitElement {
       tap_action: createFrigateCardCustomAction('image') as FrigateCardCustomAction,
     });
 
-    buttons.push({
-      icon: 'mdi:chart-gantt',
-      ...this._getConfig().menu.buttons.timeline,
-      type: 'custom:frigate-card-menu-icon',
-      title: localize('config.view.views.timeline'),
-      style: this._view?.is('timeline') ? this._getEmphasizedStyle() : {},
-      tap_action: createFrigateCardCustomAction('timeline') as FrigateCardCustomAction,
-    });
+    // Don't show the timeline button unless there's at least one non-birdseye
+    // camera with a Frigate camera name.
+    if (
+      this._cameras &&
+      [...this._cameras.values()].some(
+        (config) => config.camera_name && config.camera_name !== CAMERA_BIRDSEYE,
+      )
+    ) {
+      buttons.push({
+        icon: 'mdi:chart-gantt',
+        ...this._getConfig().menu.buttons.timeline,
+        type: 'custom:frigate-card-menu-icon',
+        title: localize('config.view.views.timeline'),
+        style: this._view?.is('timeline') ? this._getEmphasizedStyle() : {},
+        tap_action: createFrigateCardCustomAction('timeline') as FrigateCardCustomAction,
+      });
+    }
 
     if (
       this._view?.isViewerView() ||
@@ -484,9 +498,11 @@ export class FrigateCard extends LitElement {
         }
       }
       return false;
-    }
+    };
 
-    const mediaPlayers = Object.keys(this._hass?.states || {}).filter(isValidMediaPlayer);
+    const mediaPlayers = Object.keys(this._hass?.states || {}).filter(
+      isValidMediaPlayer,
+    );
     if (
       mediaPlayers.length &&
       (this._view?.isViewerView() ||
@@ -843,7 +859,7 @@ export class FrigateCard extends LitElement {
         if (success) {
           this._initialized = true;
         }
-      })
+      });
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/components/timeline.ts b/src/components/timeline.ts
index 3d8ad9ff..108aa6f7 100644
--- a/src/components/timeline.ts
+++ b/src/components/timeline.ts
@@ -37,9 +37,11 @@ import { View, ViewContext } from '../view';
 import {
   dispatchErrorMessageEvent,
   dispatchFrigateCardEvent,
+  dispatchMessageEvent,
   getCameraTitle,
   stopEventFromActivatingCardWideActions,
 } from '../common.js';
+import { localize } from '../localize/localize';
 
 import timelineCoreStyle from '../scss/timeline-core.scss';
 import timelineStyle from '../scss/timeline.scss';
@@ -593,7 +595,7 @@ export class FrigateCardTimelineCore extends LitElement {
   protected _getGroups(): DataGroupCollectionType {
     const groups: FrigateCardGroupData[] = [];
     this.cameras?.forEach((cameraConfig, camera) => {
-      if (cameraConfig.camera_name !== CAMERA_BIRDSEYE) {
+      if (cameraConfig.camera_name && cameraConfig.camera_name !== CAMERA_BIRDSEYE) {
         groups.push({
           id: camera,
           content: getCameraTitle(this.hass, cameraConfig),
@@ -882,10 +884,21 @@ export class FrigateCardTimelineCore extends LitElement {
       if (this._timeline) {
         this._timeline.setOptions(options);
       } else {
+        // Don't show an empty timeline, show a message instead.
+        const groups = this._getGroups();
+        if (!groups.length) {
+          dispatchMessageEvent(
+            this,
+            localize('error.timeline_no_cameras'),
+            'mdi:chart-gantt',
+          );
+          return;
+        }
+
         this._timeline = new Timeline(
           this._refTimeline.value,
           this._events.dataset,
-          this._getGroups(),
+          groups,
           options,
         );
         this._timeline.on('select', this._timelineSelectHandler.bind(this));
diff --git a/src/localize/languages/en.json b/src/localize/languages/en.json
index b9223c0e..3ef5eefc 100644
--- a/src/localize/languages/en.json
+++ b/src/localize/languages/en.json
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@
     "no_camera_name": "Could not determine a Frigate camera name for camera (or one of its dependents), please specify either 'camera_entity' or 'camera_name'",
     "download_no_media": "No media to download",
     "download_no_event_id": "Could not extract Frigate event id from media",
-    "download_sign_failed": "Could not sign media URL for download"
+    "download_sign_failed": "Could not sign media URL for download",
+    "timeline_no_cameras": "No Frigate cameras to show in timeline"
   }
 }