inner parrot
HA is really good at finding devices and cameras. However, it's not a great middleware if I want to run heavy processing in real time on camera feeds.
Ideally HA finds a reolink camera, I grab the meta data from HA (this is where I'm stuck), I manage the camera over socket in the cloud, I process images and send back audio in real time.
I've looked at the API in the docs but it is very unclear to me how to get the meta data of discovered cameras (and other devices) out of HA.
inner parrot
It looks like I can fetch this info after I add it in the UI with the python client here https://homeassistantapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html
However I'd like to run this all headless.
Also it looks like I can fetch the camera_stream_proxy but I do not want to proxy through HA. 🤔
inner parrot
It looks like the discovery helper delegates to each component which makes sense. The reolink component for example handles device discovery: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/bb7dc079ce6160ebdd9828864ac9f8df255083b7/homeassistant/components/reolink/config_flow.py#L144
