Camera issue with external access

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I have managed to setup remote access with duckdns and port forwarding. Everything was working perfectly for a few hours but I noticed that my camera cards had about 6 seconds lag compared to 1 second on internal network.

I am using picture glance cards with webrtc camera for low latency. I noticed that I still had the preload stream option in the card settings which means that it is not using webrtc, hence the lag.

This happened once before, before I setup external access and it was resolved by deleting webrtc and reinstalling. I tried to do this again but now the camera cards do not load on external network. I get the blank card with the play button that is normal before the card loads. Everything else works externally and the cameras load fine on internal network.

I have tried deleting and adding the cameras and also the cards. I then tried using a frigate card but this also does not load. However if go to the frigate page I can get a live feed. It is only the cards that are not working.

Any suggestions how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

I have just found that if the card is set to auto it shows an image and updates every 10 seconds. If I set it to live there is no stream, just the blank card

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The webrtc card itself says that when not on the local network extra steps need to be taken https://github.com/AlexxIT/WebRTC#webrtc-external-access

As far as the frigate card, this works fine for me (which “provider” are you using?)

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Thanks for the reply.

The way I understand it is that webrtc wont work externally without the extra steps but it should revert to mse automatically, this will give some lag which is what I had before the feed stopped loading.

I don’t get what has happened to stop the feed altogether when it was working for some time.

For frigate I am using home assistant provider.

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I may have confused things a bit. I actually have 2 integrations, webrtc which works with a manual card setup or frigate, and rtsptoweb which works with glance cards.

I disabled rtsptoweb, the glance cards are working now but they lag by 6 seconds which I am not happy with.

The frigate cards are also working now and don’t really lag, but when I add 3 or 4 cards on one page then they buffer every few seconds.

So I am currently using the manual webrtc type cards and they are working great with no lag, but my preference would be to use frigate cards.

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@crzynik thanks for pointing me in the right direction regarding webrtc external access. Followed the instructions and I now have the frigate cards working with webrtc and no lag or buffering. The only issue is the initial load time but I can live with that