advanced-camera-card/docs/configuration/cameras/live-provider.md

live_provider

Overview

The live_provider parameter determines what provides the live stream for a camera. Each provider offers different capabilities:

Live Provider	Latency	Frame Rate	Loading Time	Installation	Description
go2rtc	Best	High	Better	Builtin	Uses go2rtc to stream live feeds. This is supported by Frigate >= 0.12.
ha (default HA configuration)	Poor	High	Better	Builtin	Use the built-in Home Assistant camera stream. The camera doesn't even need to be a Frigate camera!
ha (Native WebRTC)	Best	High	Better	Builtin	Use the built-in Home Assistant camera streams -- can be configured to use native WebRTC offering a very low-latency feed direct to your browser.
ha (when configured with LL-HLS)	Better	High	Better	Builtin	Use the built-in Home Assistant camera streams -- can be configured to use an LL-HLS feed for lower latency.
image	Poor	Poor	Best	Builtin	Use refreshing snapshots of the built-in Home Assistant camera streams.
jsmpeg	Better	Low	Poor	Builtin	Use a the JSMPEG stream.
webrtc-card	Best	High	Better	Separate installation required	Embed's AlexxIT's WebRTC Card to stream live feed, requires manual extra setup. See below. Not to be confused with native Home Assistant WebRTC (use the ha provider).

go2rtc

The go2rtc block configures use of the go2rtc live provider. This configuration is included as part of a camera entry in the cameras list.

cameras:
 - camera_entity: camera.office
   live_provider: go2rtc
   go2rtc:
     [...]

Option	Default	Description
modes	[webrtc, mse, mp4, mjpeg]	An ordered list of go2rtc modes to use. Valid values are webrtc, mse, mp4 or mjpeg values.
stream	Determined by camera engine (e.g. frigate camera name).	A valid go2rtc stream name.
url	Determined by camera engine (e.g. the frigate engine will automatically generate a URL for the go2rtc backend that runs in the Frigate container).	The root go2rtc URL the card should stream the video from. This is only needed for non-Frigate usecases, or advanced Frigate usecases. Example: http://my-custom-go2rtc:1984

image

All configuration is under:

cameras:
 - camera_entity: camera.office
   live_provider: image
   image:
     [...]

Option	Default	Description
refresh_seconds	1	The image will be refreshed at least every refresh_seconds. 0 implies no refreshing.
url		Advanced: A static image URL to be fetched in lieu of the Home Assistant image for the given camera. This may be useful for advanced configurations where the camera image is being provided by some non-Home Assistant system. This will also set the temporary loading image used when show_image_during_load is set to true under the live configuration.

jsmpeg

All configuration is under:

cameras:
 - camera_entity: camera.office
   live_provider: jsmpeg
   jsmpeg:
     [...]

Option	Default	Description
options		Advanced users only: Control the underlying JSMPEG library options. Supports setting these JSMPEG options {audio, video, pauseWhenHidden, disableGl, disableWebAssembly, preserveDrawingBuffer, progressive, throttled, chunkSize, maxAudioLag, videoBufferSize, audioBufferSize}. This is not necessary for the vast majority of users: only set these flags if you know what you're doing, as you may entirely break video rendering in the card.

webrtc_card

WebRTC Card support blends the use of the ultra-realtime WebRTC card live view with convenient access to Frigate events/snapshots/UI. AlexxIT's WebRTC Integration/Card must be installed and configured separately (see details) before it can be used with this card.

cameras:
 - camera_entity: camera.office
   live_provider: webrtc-card
   webrtc_card:
     [...]

Option	Default	Description
entity		The RTSP camera entity to pass to the WebRTC Card for this camera.
url	Depends on the camera engine (e.g. Frigate cameras will automatically use the camera name since this is the recommended setup).	The RTSP url to pass to the WebRTC Card, e.g. rtsp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@CAMERA:554/RTSP_PATH
*		Any options specified in the webrtc_card: YAML dictionary are silently passed through to the AlexxIT's WebRTC Card. See WebRTC Configuration for full details this external card provides, e.g. ui: true will enable the WebRTC Card UI.