Live camera steam not working on android device (fully kiosk)

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Hi All,
I am having trouble incorporating a live camera feed to Home Assitant.

  • The issue is that i am not able to stream the live feed in my android tablet.

I have found some articles related to the lack of codec (H.265/H.254/AdobeFlash?) support in Andriod. I’m sure there is a way around this but I can’t seem to find any concrete solution.

Im using a Anran (AR-W620) camera to pull a RSTP feed. it functions fine on my desktop and iPhone. The card was added to HA using the Generic Camera platform using Raspberry pi 4.

View on my Android tablet using chrome :

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camera:
  - platform: ffmpeg
    name: Anran
    # substream = small window
    input: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/11

tags Fully-Kiosk, Anran, live-camera,rstp

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View on my Desktop using chrome :

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Did you ever find a solution to this? I’m experiencing the same thing.

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Finally got dev tools working on my android tablet and the service worker seems to be returning an HLS stream that 404s by the server. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to trace it back further since. Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

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I think I have the same.
I have multiple Foscam camera’s working fine via ONVIF.
Just added another one type X4, added via ONVIF working fine on my computer, but on my Android Phone and Tablet the image loads, but does not refresh.

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anyone found a resolution for this yet? I am facing the same issue on Android phone and tablet

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Hi I wanted to share my solution to this issue.

Camera streams were smooth when viewing HA dashboards via laptop/browser and on my main Android mobile device via HA app. But the streams would not work correctly via app or browser on a cheap Samsung Android tablet I bought to use for HA.

After extensive troubleshooting I concluded the cheap Samsung tablet just doesn’t have the power and/or memory to stream the full quality “main” stream from my Reolink cameras. Switching to the lower quality “sub” stream allowed the video to work.

TLDR; reduce the quality of the stream or use more powerful hardware.

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@robonode Thank you for posting this here. This resolved my issue! I nearly threw the tablet in the bin :rofl: