Dahua
Dahua camera with H.265 stream
Cameras · Security
Partly worksApple Home issues
1 report: 1 says it partly works.
Reported with 1 integration: Dahua.
What people report
| Integration | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dahua | Partly works | Broken in Home H.265 stream loads forever in Home app; use H.264 | Camera works in Home Assistant; HomeKit needs H.264 sub streamSaved copy@Tornadoalley constantly loading in HomeKit while working in the Home Assistant app is almost always the codec. HomeKit needs H.264. If the stream it is handed is H.265 or HEVC, nothing errors, it just never paints, which matches your screenshot and your clean logs. Worth checking on the camera itself, under Encode, for whichever stream HomeKit is using. If Main is H.265, either switch it to H.264 or point HomeKit at the sub stream and set that to H.264. I hit the same thing from the other direction on a video wall here: H.265 negotiated audio only and showed nothing, and moving the sub … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #576 · 2026-05 |
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In ReReHome
Once Home Assistant’s HomeKit Bridge shares it, this device reaches Apple Home as a HomeKit accessory behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls it like any other.
Identifiers
| Brand | Dahua |
|---|---|
| Category | Cameras |