Recorded videos in Lovelace?

[INPoppoRTUNE]

Issues

I'd like to use gallery card to display a gallery of recorded videos in Lovelace, but I cannot find a way to make it works.
As far as I'm understanding:

• cold storage path is setted to /config/www/tapo_control and it is automatically emptied even if I setted the number of hours to keep synchronized to 1h;
• gallery card accept URI scheme only, no local path;

Attempt instructions

• I mounted /config/www/tapo_control in configuration.yaml

homeassistant:
    media_dirs:
        tapo: /config/www/tapo_control

• I passed the URI scheme to the gallery card

type: custom:gallery-card
entities:
  - path: media-source://media_source/tapo
    recursive: true
show_controls: true
include_images: false
include_video: true
autoplay: true
interval: 5000

Results

The folder is automatically emptied, so I'm unable to see any video listed in the gallery card integration unless I recently played one from the media sources or it's being synchronized.

Expected results

Having a folder with 1h of videos synced, accessible from the gallery card integration.

I'm sure I'm missing something super obvious, but I'm bashing my head in circle without reaching any solution.
Any suggestions? Thanks for your time.

[JurajNyiri]

This works like this on purpose because of privacy reasons. Hot storage /config/www/tapo_control will be always emptied out after 1 hour and has further obfuscation in place to prevent anyone guessing the file name and path.
What you can do is set cold storage to something else, like /config/www/tapo_control_cold_storage and then it will stay but your recordings will be accessible WITHOUT authorization to everyone who can access your HA host, provided they know the path to the cold storage "/config/www/tapo_control_cold_storage" so I recommend setting it to a random folder string name at least.

[JurajNyiri]

@INPoppoRTUNE Updated^ see editted message please.

[INPoppoRTUNE]

So my updated setup is:

Cold storage folder

Created a new folder /config/www/custom_rng_generated_long_path_for_cold_storage

configuration.yaml

homeassistant:
   media_dirs:
    tapo: /config/www/custom_rng_generated_long_path_for_cold_storage

Tapo media synchronization settings

• Enable media synchronization: checked
• Number of hours to keep synchronized: 1
• Cold storage path: /config/www/custom_rng_generated_long_path_for_cold_storage

Gallery card

type: custom:gallery-card
entities:
  - path: media-source://media_source/tapo
    recursive: true
show_controls: true
include_images: false
include_video: true
autoplay: true
interval: 5000

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At the moment the /config/www/custom_rng_generated_long_path_for_cold_storage folder is empty and the sensor.camera_recordings_synchronization entity goes from starting to idle after restarting Home Assistant.
I guess it need some time to fully sync all 1h of videos and will do it sometime today autonomously(?)
Will check on the status in a couple of hours. Please let me know if any of my setting are not setted correctly. Thanks for your time!

Edit: I just realized I misinterpreted this instruction: "You need to also define the number of hours to synchronize". This parameter define the datetime difference between now() and the video date, not the total number of hours of video to synchronize. I now updated the Number of hours to keep synchronized to 168 (aka 1 week) and the synchronization started immediately upon restart.
I'd also like to ask if it's possible to implement a filename format field in settings: gallery card expect a file_name_format in datetime format (ES: file_name_format: YYYY_MM_DD__HH_mm_ss), so I don't think it's compatible with the Unix format used by this integration.

[jojeji]

You can use "file_name_date_begins" and file_name_format=X to solve it
Filename look like "1734829030-1734829094.mp4", so I start at char 12 parsing the date.

type: custom:gallery-card
entities:
  - path: media-source://media_source/tapo/xyz
    recursive: true
  - path: media-source://media_source/tapo/zxy
    recursive: true
  - path: media-source://media_source/tapo/yzx
    recursive: true
maximum_files: 5
file_name_format: X
file_name_date_begins: "12"
caption_format: DD.MM.YY hh:mm
menu_alignment: bottom

[INPoppoRTUNE]

@jojeji my dude out of nowere!
Worked flawlessly, thanks!