WTH isn't there a configurable window (click on card to open) to play video from IP cameras

Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
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When you display a card with an IP Camera on your dashboard you can usually click it to see a larger version. The window in which it appears is not customizable in any way… for example size.

A recent change added the very annoying top tabs that should not be in an IP Camera view window IMO. Worse of all, the video was not resized to fit the smaller space now available so a scrollbar appeared on the right and part of the image is truncated on the bottom. The example below shows how the bottom 2 or 3cm of the image (on my screen) are cut off. In case it matters it is an 8MP / 4K IP Camera stream viewed on a 4K computer screen.

It would be nice to be able to configure the window to not display the tabs, and to set the size desired.

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Unrelated… but restyling also caused other issues such as:

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Echo this issue! Clicking any camera feed in my dashboard brings up a HUUUUGE window of the stream which is just way too big to view, and you have to scroll. It’s also independent of the stream resolution, as testing with an ESP32CAM, I set the resolution down to 320px, and the window was just a HUGE stream of a very pixelated feed.

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