Configure extra sensor for setting camera entity as (in)active

@Boggie wrote:

I have a webcam running and showing in home assistant configured like this:

camera:
  - platform: mjpeg
    name: mycam
    still_image_url: "http://mycam.local/snapshot"
    mjpeg_url: "http://mycam.local/stream"

It shows up as always Inactive, since it has no motion detection.

But what if I have a way to see if there are motion (like motioneye) that I can use to set a secondary sensor (maybe via MQTT) to active or inactive.

Can I somehow configure a hybrid camera that takes the image from still_image_url and mjpeg_url but the active/inactive from another sensor (or even just directly from an MQTT topic)?

Please say yes

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