You may check additional ffmpeg options. I think we can make ffmpeg start faster.
I also will try to test later
Also, you need to know, WebRTC from addon Web UI will start faster than default Lovelace card. It has more advanced IP address exchange (candidates).
I am not sure what this is? I couldn’t find it. I see references to it in the docs but not sure. In the ‘GitHub - AlexxIT/hassio-addons: Hass.io addons: go2rtc and SSH Tunnel’ I only see go2rtc and ssh tunnels…
I’ve painfully moved my ha to 443 and have everything working with the go2rtc now. It’s fixed all my issues even with apps like ‘pipup’ which always paused my shield with notifications because they contain audio (can now just strip it from the feeds easily).
ITs all working great.
“Open Web UI” button on this picture:
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ohhh I thought there was something else. THankyou! I am actually using those URLs generated from the UI in many automations like android TV and such. It works really well.
Understood, but based on the documentation RTSPtoWeb is preferred over RTSPtoWebRTC. Add on: RTSPtoWeb and RTSPtoWebRTC
RTSPtoWeb is preferred over RTSPtoWebRTC though there are add-ons for both.
@johntdyer did you get it figured out? I’m at the same point you are.
I think it would be great if there was an end to end example of this being used.
Which documentation? Are you referring to the webrtc documentation? Because this is go2rtc. Different project. And RTSPtoWebRTC is specifically called out in the go2rtc documentation…
I think its difficult to produce an ‘end to end example’ because the use cases for this is so wide.
If you tell us where you’re stuck, maybe someone can help you. I have this working across various aspects of my HA now.
Thanks @calisro I appreciate your help!
I have cameras coming into home assistant via the frigate plugin. I want to limit the delay from the cameras because with the default rtmp I get 30+ second delay.
My goal is to be able to use go2rtc in the Frigate lovelace card and view externally through my Nabu Casa subscription.
Right now I have go2rtc installed and RTSPtoWebRTC but I don’t know how connect the pieces together and use them in the Frigate Lovelace Card.
Also similar to you I have the AD410 I want to get working through the Frigate card 
I don’t use frigate. But you shouldn’t need to do anything for webrtc to kick in. You should literally need to install those components, forward your 8555 port per the docs and it will make that existing camera stream webrtc. You can check in the go2rtc UI and see the numbers/info link with the data when you open up the camera. That will tell you if its working. Also turn up your debugging logs.
You only really need to define the ‘streams’ if you want to customize them more.
This will work too BUT you probably won’t get 2-way working in that card. Right now I don’t think there is a lovelace card to allow the 2-way. I currently use the ‘webrtc’ link in the go2rtc UI and send that link as a notification to our phones when motion is detected so we can open it and see/talk to the door. It technically just runs in a browser when we click it but it works fine. eventually I am sure someone will make a lovelace card.
There’s no way to mute the mic though. Lol so that’s made some comical fun with “open mic” when we forgot we opened the link. Oops
Hi,
can I use go2rtc to use the reolink camera with full resolution (4k, h265) and convert it to h264, to view it in home Assistant? I tested it and a don’t get any error messages, but i get an grey image with some fragments.
I used the following Command:
- ffmpeg:rtsp://user:pass@IP:554/h265Preview_main#video=h264
Thanks
You built the wrong link. Check docs
Oh, i removed the slashes after rtsp (typo), sorry.
Have i forgotten anything else? Checked the example in the docu, but cant find my fault.
Thanks
Everything should work now
After a few seconds i receive a very laggy stream. Audio and video are very jerky. Also tried to add pcmu for audio, but no difference.
Likely the hardware you’re doing transcoding on (running go2rtc) is making it jerky.
Is there a way to adjust the timeout (increase) for the ‘Timeout Handling WebRTC offer’? I have a couple cameras that run through ffmpeg with go2rtc and when loading at once sometimes some fail to display. This is likely due to hardware slowness but rather than ‘Failed to start WebRTC’, i’d prefer to either a) increase the timeout or b) retry itself.
Once it fails, I’d need to refresh the entire lovelace for it to retry again…
Its running as home Assistant Plugin, the ha vm has two cores and 4gig of RAM. When i Start the stream the cpu is at about 70% and RAM at 40%. Do you have suggestions for improvement?
Transcoding video is not chip operation. Hardware acceleration is very complicated task for all possible user setups. Native H265 support is very limited for all possible user devices.
Some of this problems will be solved in future go2rtc updates.
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@AlexxIT - my Dahua doorbell camera has never worked with any of your plugins. With go2RTC this is the error I’m getting. Any suggestions on how I can resolve? I am able to see the RTSP stream in VLC totally fine with the same URL.
07:32:41.702 INF [rtsp] listen addr=:8554
07:32:41.705 INF [hass] load stream url=hass:Camera_2_h264
07:32:41.705 INF [hass] load stream url=hass:Door_Camera
07:32:41.705 INF [hass] load stream url=hass:192_168_0_69
07:32:41.705 INF [api] listen addr=:1984
07:32:41.705 INF [srtp] listen addr=:8443
2022/09/07 13:03:04 [INFO] mdns: Closing client {true false 0xc00012c770 <nil> 0xc00012c778 <nil> 1 0xc000100780}
07:33:50.180 INF [streams] create new stream url=rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif
07:33:53.017 WRN [api.webrtc] add consumer error="couldn't find the matching tracks"
@sachinss increase log level to trace and came to github issues. Or you can find me in Telegram with same nick.