WebRTC support for Camera (stream) Components

Feature Requests
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Hi folks, Chris posted a great video talking about LL-HLS and the RTSPtoWeb Add-on for folks who want to learn more about the current state of things: Real Time Camera Viewing using RTSPtoWeb and Glance Cards in Home Assistant. - YouTube

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Is it worth marking this as solved now? I think it’s worth updating that

  • LL HLS is now on by default and should satisfy most users (~4-5s). Maybe a couple more things we want to fix for initial startup latency
  • The rtsp to webrtc add-on now exists and is also an option though has caveats, but can be improved over time.
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Got it, I considered these projects to be solved but I realize given unifi protects aren’t working at all I hear you. We updated the certificate handling and now ignore the bad cert. Do you know what is different about the rtsps stream compared to the rtsp stream otherwise that still causes it not to work? I personally won’t be able to do anything about it since I don’t have one, but it certainly seems close to a solution.

Yes, I agree audio re-encoding and stream preloading would be great improvements.

One other angle I’ve thought about is doing a hybrid of stream with pyav and the python webrtc as a fun proof of concept, since it’ll have better stream support in general.

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Edit: Sure, I’m not feeling discredited, what I mean to say is they are “projects” we should tee up and go solve. I don’t think I worded that clearly. My initial point was to update the status from 2022.02 (e.g. LL HLS is now on by default and the edit says it’s on beta) and you’re right webrtc is not complete yet.

Are unifi protect rtsp urls stable? I’m curious if just setting on demand=false in the config is enough so that they are always preloaded after initially registered.
If so, that one could be straight forward to address.

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@AngellusMortis just curious, which method did you land on for accessing your UniFi Protect streams via HA?

I’ve been using WebRTC since well before the LL-HLS default was made earlier this year, but I’m starting to see some slow down in my UniFi Protect live streams via the official app, so I’m troubleshooting with disabling the WebRTC streams to see if that’s causing it.