1.0.4 helped a lot, 1 more question

[wayne47git]

1.0.4 fixed all my problems mentioned in 238.
What's the spell to make a stream work in HA (hassio)? I have:

camera:
    - platform: generic
    name: frontcam
    still_image_url: http://192.168.51.28:8123/local/outdoor1.jpg
    stream_source: rtsp://192.168.51.28:8554/outdoor1

which gets a snapshot (updated properly in www/CAMERA_NAME.jpg) but never gives a stream viewable in HA. (I do get 2 snapshots; one names "Wyze camname" and one named "frontcam" but I can live with that). My guess is that HA is confused because it's not going to the IP address of the camera. The stream is viewable using vlc, despite nmap not seeing anything on port 8554 when pointed at 192.168.51.28.

If anyone has the HAdashboard spell to make a stream come up by tapping the still image, I'd love to know that.

[mrlt8]

does using 127.0.0.1 help?

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: cam-name
    still_image_url: http://127.0.0.1:8123/local/cam-name.jpg
    stream_source: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/cam-name

[wayne47git]

Good idea, no luck. Note that the still image works fine with the 192.168.51.28 IP address. I just can't get the rtsp feed to do anything.

[mrlt8]

Is the 8554 port being used by another add-on?

[wayne47git]

Let me summarize my confusion:

• port 8123 shows an updating still image, both in HA Overview (tagged as idle on the bottom) as well as in in /local
• port 8554 shows live video, using VLC from another PC but, when I click on the image in HA Overview I get the still image, not a live feed.
• I can not get the live feed to show up on HADashboard,

Also will mention that the feed seems to start/stop a LOT:

2021/12/02 10:37:15 [RTSP][OUTDOOR1] 📖 New client reading
2021/12/02 10:37:23 [RTSP][OUTDOOR1] 📕 Client stopped reading
2021/12/02 10:40:23 [RTSP][OUTDOOR1] 📖 New client reading 
2021/12/02 10:40:28 [RTSP][OUTDOOR1] 📕 Client stopped reading
2021/12/02 10:43:29 [RTSP][OUTDOOR1] 📖 New client reading 
2021/12/02 10:43:34 [RTSP][OUTDOOR1] 📕 Client stopped reading

[mrlt8]

The reading/stopped reading is the container grabbing a still image from the live feed.

Not sure why the stream is not visible in HA.. Any errors in the browser's inspector?