Stream component : unable to display rtsp stream

Configuration
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I think you can refer to this thread : Stream Component: Confirmed Cameras and Configurations

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Exactly! Thank you.

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I have the same errors. I swore it was working this morning, I’m now trying to connect remotely. Maybe that’s the issue? Should this work when not connected locally, or via VPN?

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All my Unifi cameras when trying stream also do the same thing and error. Work fine when removing stream: from the config. Worked with FFMPEG. Running in a docker container version on latest release.

2019-03-22 14:01:45 ERROR (stream_worker) [libav.h264] error while decoding MB 79 12, bytestream -22

2019-03-22 14:02:27 ERROR (stream_worker) [libav.h264] error while decoding MB 30 24, bytestream -28

2019-03-22 14:02:39 ERROR (stream_worker) [homeassistant.components.stream.worker] Error demuxing stream: No dts in packet

2019-03-22 14:03:18 ERROR (stream_worker) [libav.h264] error while decoding MB 82 22, bytestream -18

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@mcaminiti is running identical hardware to what is on my secondary site (that doesn’t work) with same errors). QNAP TS 451+, which is the same CPU as my QNAP TS 453 Pro (that does work), Unifi CloudKey gen2 Plus. Both running Home Assistant in Docker. Same camera models as well.

This makes me think either we are missing a dependency from another component that is loaded or and underlying OS component that is missing.

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Interesting find on this one. So I’ve been testing all kinds of things on this.

I kept noticing

ERROR (MainThread) [frontend.js.es5.201903200]

when the stream wouldn’t load. That indicated it was falling back to the older version of javascript.

I did a few tests by appending ?latest to the end of my URL to force the latest version of javascript and it worked. It didn’t matter what browser I was using it would still fallback to es5. I still see the occasional stream errors but those might not have been the actual issue.

This could be a byproduct of another issue misidentifying the browser version and applying an improper javascript version.

example test:
clear browser history
https://homeassistant-domain.com/lovelace/default_view?latest

I’m curious if this clears up some issues for others as well.

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I am trying to use Reolink cameras to stream to cast devices. The streams seem to load in home assistant as I am able to see the component on the state tab however when I use camera.play_stream on a device it just appears to load and shows a blank screen. Not sure if there something else I can try. On the front end it seems to work but loses connection often.

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I got 0.90.1 installed. I managed to get my cameras to stream properly now since 0.90.1 release. It wasn’t working with 0.90. If i watch a camera on my chromecast and at the same time decide to go to the pane in lovelace where i keep my cameras, it’s enough to just view the preview, the frontend for homeassistant crashes. A reboot fixes it though.

I manged to solve the above by putting all my cameras in homeassistant on Generic. Now I can pretty much do everything without it crashing.

Just thought i’d give my two cents. :slight_smile:

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So I have a few different instances of HA and only one of which experienced this issue (windows 10 linux subsystem). After following your suggestion I noticed it was working properly. I think you are correct that there may be another underlying issue here. There is a bug report on the frontend repo where myself and another user had the same issue and configuring the frontend to always show latest fixed it for us.

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer/issues/2987

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This is working with my Dahua cameras on 0.91.0, but with some of the issues below

  1. Does not work with H.265, but this is probably a browser/hw limitation.
  2. Will not load playlist.m3u8 the first time I click the stream, but will load it on the subsequent requests. This seems like a server side issue, because I can open it the first time on one device, then it works immediately on another device.

Error when doing #2
https://192.168.1.4:8123/lovelace/4:0:0 ResizeObserver loop limit exceeded

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Ditto.
Have a current model Foscam and an older Edimax. Stream component can’t handle either as yet and has the demux errors.
The Edimax supports only mjpeg and H264 streaming.
I can use either via VLC with same URL’s.
Early days for this component and it’s camera support so it will take time to tune up I expect…

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Same problem here with D-Link cameras.
I’ve a lot of different models of D-Link cameras and no one is working… The stream is good with VLC but no luck with HASS.
My log is the following:

2019-04-07 19:05:28 ERROR (stream_worker) [libav.rtsp] method DESCRIBE failed: 401 Unauthorized
2019-04-07 19:05:28 ERROR (stream_worker) [libav.tcp] Connection to tcp://192.168.1.48:554?timeout=0 failed: Connection refused
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You need to put the credentials in the rtsp URL

rtsp://user:pass@

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Thanks! now it works!

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dafang is working but its too slow and laggy on my chromecast. do you experience the same?

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This fixes the issue for me as well. I also use Unifi G3 cameras, but presumably it’s not isolated to the camera, more this javascript issue?

When I first added the camera it did work fine for a while, then one day I noticed that clicking on the card just opened a blank/black card that was stuck trying to load. Appending ?latest to the URL fixed it immediately (I’m on 91.1).

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How to set it to display on my tv (Samsung TV).
Please guide

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Problem with Dafang. Hassio gets real sluggish, even on a Intel NUC i7 with 32GB internal memory. Error in log file:

2019-04-08 08:51:51 ERROR (stream_worker) [libav.mp3float] Header missing

Look also at issue: Cant stream generic camera “Header Missing” #22591

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Hello
I have setup hikvision cameras and stream component.
I am able to “camera.play_strem” on a google screen cromecase device without issue
But on Hassio front end, after i click on the camera, my player always have a black screen and spinning circle. I do not get any errors in my log file (just “started stream message”)

I have verified the url’s with iSPi and streaming directly on cromecast through “camera.play_strem”

Why I can not see the stream with hassio?
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    - platform: generic
      name: Front House
      still_image_url: 
      http://xxx:[email protected]:80/PSIA/Streaming/channels/102/picture
      stream_source: rtsp://xxx:[email protected]:8554/Streaming/Unicast/channels/102
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You’re my hero with this ?latest hack. I lost several hours with dozens of configs and it was enough to add that crap at the end of the url :wink: