diff --git a/scripts/e2e-edge.sh b/scripts/e2e-edge.sh
index c17d9e0..d8e960b 100755
--- a/scripts/e2e-edge.sh
+++ b/scripts/e2e-edge.sh
@@ -186,13 +186,19 @@ echo "==> starting the real continuum-proxy against it"
 # or cleanup kills only the wrapper and leaves an orphan reconnecting with a
 # stale token. An earlier version did exactly that, and the orphan then
 # reported a deleted farm's printers into the next run.
+# STREAM_BASE_URL is deliberately set: it is what the gateway advertises in
+# its hello and the only way GET /printers/:id/stream can answer 200, so
+# leaving it unset would make the camera assertions below untestable rather
+# than passing. It does not have to be reachable - nothing here plays video.
+STREAM_BASE_URL="http://e2e-gateway.invalid:1984"
 env -C "$PROXY_DIR" \
   CONTINUUM_GATEWAY_ID=e2e-gw \
   CONTINUUM_FARM_ID="$FARM_ID" \
   CONTINUUM_GATEWAY_TOKEN="$TOKEN" \
   CONTINUUM_UPLINK_URL="ws://localhost:$PORT/ws/edge/v1" \
   CONTINUUM_GO2RTC_BIN=/nonexistent-go2rtc \
-  CONTINUUM_GO2RTC_CONFIG=./go2rtc.yaml \
+  CONTINUUM_GO2RTC_CONFIG="$WORK/go2rtc.yaml" \
+  CONTINUUM_STREAM_BASE_URL="$STREAM_BASE_URL" \
   CONTINUUM_PRINTERS_PATH=printers.toml \
   RUST_LOG=info \
   "$PROXY_DIR/target/debug/continuum-proxy" > "$WORK/proxy.log" 2>&1 &
@@ -277,6 +283,58 @@ else
   COMMAND_TESTED=yes
 fi
 
+# --- 5b. the camera path ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# Only the X1/H2 class publishes an rtsp_url - confirmed at the network layer:
+# the H2C accepts TCP on 322, a P1P refuses it and listens on 6000 instead. So
+# "some printers have a stream and most do not" is the expected state, and both
+# halves are asserted. A run where no printer has a camera still passes, but
+# says so rather than claiming the path works.
+echo "==> the camera path: what the gateway reported, and what the API answers"
+WITH_CAMERA="$(psql_q "SELECT gateway_printer_id FROM printers
+                       WHERE farm_id='$FARM_ID' AND camera_stream IS NOT NULL
+                       ORDER BY gateway_printer_id LIMIT 1")"
+
+if [ -z "$WITH_CAMERA" ]; then
+  echo "  SKIPPED: no printer reported a camera stream."
+  echo "  Expected if only P1/A1-class printers are on: they publish no rtsp_url."
+else
+  # The gateway sets camera_stream to its own printer id, so this also checks
+  # the two ends agree about the name a stream is served under.
+  STREAM_NAME="$(psql_q "SELECT camera_stream FROM printers
+                         WHERE farm_id='$FARM_ID' AND gateway_printer_id='$WITH_CAMERA'")"
+  [ "$STREAM_NAME" = "$WITH_CAMERA" ] \
+    || fail "camera_stream for '$WITH_CAMERA' is '$STREAM_NAME', expected its own gateway id"
+  ok "'$WITH_CAMERA' reported camera stream '$STREAM_NAME'"
+
+  CAM_UUID="$(psql_q "SELECT id FROM printers
+                      WHERE farm_id='$FARM_ID' AND gateway_printer_id='$WITH_CAMERA'")"
+  STREAM="$(curl -sf -H "$AUTH_HEADER" "$BASE/printers/$CAM_UUID/stream")" \
+    || fail "GET /printers/$CAM_UUID/stream failed for a printer that has a camera"
+  echo "$STREAM" | grep -q "\"cameraId\":\"$WITH_CAMERA\"" \
+    || fail "wrong cameraId: $STREAM"
+  # The farm's stream base URL has to survive the hello and come back out of
+  # an in-memory connection, which is the part with no unit test behind it.
+  echo "$STREAM" | grep -q "\"streamUrl\":\"$STREAM_BASE_URL\"" \
+    || fail "streamUrl did not come back from the gateway's hello: $STREAM"
+  ok "GET .../stream: $STREAM"
+fi
+
+# A printer with no camera must 404, and say which half is missing. This is
+# the case a frontend hits for most of a mixed fleet, so it matters that it is
+# a clean refusal rather than a 200 carrying nulls.
+NO_CAMERA="$(psql_q "SELECT id FROM printers
+                     WHERE farm_id='$FARM_ID' AND camera_stream IS NULL
+                     AND gateway_printer_id IS NOT NULL LIMIT 1")"
+if [ -n "$NO_CAMERA" ]; then
+  CODE="$(curl -s -o "$WORK/nocam.json" -w '%{http_code}' -H "$AUTH_HEADER" \
+    "$BASE/printers/$NO_CAMERA/stream")"
+  [ "$CODE" = "404" ] || fail "expected 404 for a printer with no camera, got $CODE"
+  grep -q 'no camera' "$WORK/nocam.json" \
+    || fail "the 404 should blame the printer's camera, not the gateway: $(cat "$WORK/nocam.json")"
+  ok "a printer with no camera is refused with 404, blaming the right half"
+fi
+
 # --- 6. the negative case --------------------------------------------------
 
 echo "==> an unclaimed printer must be refused, not guessed at"
@@ -292,6 +350,11 @@ ok "unclaimed printer refused with 409 PRINTER_UNREACHABLE"
 echo
 # Say what was actually exercised. Claiming commands work when the command test
 # was skipped is worse than not running it.
+if [ -n "${WITH_CAMERA:-}" ]; then
+  echo "  Camera path verified: '$WITH_CAMERA' reported a stream and the API served it."
+else
+  echo "  Camera path NOT verified: no printer on this LAN publishes an rtsp_url."
+fi
 if [ "$COMMAND_TESTED" = yes ]; then
   echo "PASS - telemetry and commands both verified against a real database and real printers."
 else