Real Time Camera Viewing using RTSPtoWeb and Glance Cards in Home Assistant.

Here is yet another and better option for live streaming cameras using the RTPStoWeb Add-on and the WebRTC integration. Not only that, but LL HLS is an option if it works for you. I discuss all that is this video so take a look!
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[@Rownyy]

Setting up Home Assistant for first time. I bet you know how it can be. However, Just wanna thank you so much for your videos. You cover up so much and slow enough for me to understand.

[@xbmcnut]

Hi Chris. Love your work. Any idea if this plays nicely now with gortc in the new Frigate v12? Seems there is now an option to leverage gortc and have this restream so wondering if webrtc is still required. Hopefully you've got plans to do an updated Frigate video sometime soon?😁😁😁

[@cemaranetfeedback6295]

Hi Chris, thanks for the comprehensive video, i was wondering if there's any way to auto re-connect whenever the cam loses connection, in my case it wont do it and i have to either restart or refresh the page, not too ideal for 24/7 viewing station

[@bruxy70]

That's great Chris. A bit heavy, but it also works in picture-elements card, that's cool!

[@mostlychris]

Thanks.

[@chris]

This is a MUST for my Wyze V3 cameras. It starts the video immediately and stays connected without buffering.

[@mostlychris]

Excellent!

[@JoshuaJohnsonHou]

What are you using to get your Wyze V3 stream into HA?

[@prestigedesigner]

How were you able to do the Wyze integration in HA?

[@rolandschuepbach6836]

Hi Chris, as always I do like your videos. I was following your instructions and could install all as described, but i am running into a strange problem. The integration seems to work, but when opening the WebUi to get to the dashboard I can see one of my camera streams in the middle of the screen, but no web interface on the dashboard. Any idea what that could be. I was searching in the community, but couldn't find and useful hints.

[@jellyjenn12291]

awesome thanks for the video this really helped reduce the lag time in my videos

[@rrrrrrrr290]

Excellent video, very easy to follow, so thanks

[@mostlychris]

You are welcome!

[@huantrahuongson]

Great product! Don't hesitate to buy one!

[@gchinwanno]

thank you for this video. This really help the use case I am implementing

[@mostlychris]

Glad it was helpful!

[@krusej23]

I found that you have to install this add on locally and not from the remote url using Nabu Casa. Once I installed it locally, it worked perfectly. Thanks for the video.

[@mostlychris]

Thanks for the info.

[@SBinVancouver]

Hey Chris, I was struggling getting a Eufy Security camera displaying on a dashboard. It'd work briefly with "RTSP Simple" add-on, but RTSPtowebRTC seems to be solid. Thanks!

[@ptmoy1]

I followed the instruction from this video to add RTSPtoWeb. My picture glance cards now load up very fast. But there's still a lag of between 7 and 10 seconds on the video stream itself. Does the addon suppose to fix stream-lag problems as well? The streams are mostly from POE Reolink cameras.

[@tald747]

Hi Chris, Thanks for this video. Your explanation was clear and easy to follow. After installing this addon I saw a significant improvement with my camera (Yi outdoor 1080p) latency compared to the generic camera addon. Keep up the good work 👍

[@mostlychris]

Thanks!

[@Disi2008]

I use restream via go2rtc already via Frigate? Does it still benefit using this extra component? The Frigate restream opens quickly and is steady.

[@koen889]

Very interesting, will give it a try soon, just yesterday I was thinking about googling for a solution for the slow start-up of the picture glance cards and the out of sync camera streams because it defeats the purpose for me. Sometimes guests were already in the house while the stream still showed them parking up the drive way :D

[@mostlychris]

Excellent. Good luck!

[@user-ef4zt6no3h]

Great video, but my streams are not starting.. They are just "still pictures". Do you know what this could be?

[@michaelmenzie5535]

can you have both the allenporter version and the AlexxIT version at the same time or is it one or the other?

[@vectrasale]

Thx a lot! It's helped me. I couldn't find entities of cameras (I made it in RTSPtoWeb UI before) end now all OK :)

[@mostlychris]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

[@erumaithi]

thank you for the video, I have done the installation and everything works. One question, how to change the protocol from WEBRTC to MSE for home assistant? in the RTSPtoWeb portal the MSE stream was performing much better and faster than WEPRTC.

[@mostlychris]

I don't think that this platform works with MSE. The original WebRTC auto selects. I hope I'm not getting the two confused as I've played around with a number of WebRTC solutions now. The one I use currently supports auto switching to MSE when the connection allows it.

[@boopeshkumarprabhakaran]

thanks..but when I add cam live view with picture glance card ...then the card starts to jump and show some error...but if I click on it I get the feed..but in dashboard it's not showing ...any way to fix it?

[@ericschoenberger6812]

Thanks for the video, i installed this add on, all of my cameras are setup as picture entity cards as opposed to glance. I switched two of them over to glance but don't seem to notice any difference in performance. Do you know if entity vs glance matters? My cameras don't load as fast as yours but I'm thinking that's more becasue i'm running HA on a RPi4 and think that might be the limiting factor.

[@mostlychris]

I think the main difference will be with what options the card has. The speed you mention is probably like you said--running on a Pi4. It could also be due to network speeds.

[@Dominic-ls8oo]

Thanks for the video. Were you able to view your streams remotely via webrtc? It doesn't show on my phone when I connect remotely

[@mostlychris]

I'm testing this. I am actually running into an issue with the way I have my local and remote URLs setup in that even locally I sometimes get errors that web-rtc cannot be found. This is due to my proxy setup as far as I can tell. It's been driving me crazy but today I bypassed the proxy locally and it worked fine on the local network.

[@jonbrownisamazing]

I have 5 ring cameras. I don't like the built in ring integration in HA. Is there a way to use my cams in a live stream card in HA? I'm using a Pi 4 64 GB RAM. I'd prefer not to have to get a whole new camera system. And I don't mind the $10/month for all my cams. Appreciate your help!

[@shawnhaywood4199]

Hello. Great video. You mentioned you have Amcrest cameras. Are you viewing them via the Amcrest integration, or just RTSP generic camera?

[@mostlychris]

All generic. I don't have any camera specific integrations (except Ring doorbell).

[@jesusmr]

@@mostlychris I have a Amcrest NVR and I just can't add to generic. What url are you using for generic integration?

[@oudoulj]

Very interesting video and add-on. I should give it a shot with a spare Wyze cam v2 (that I would need to switch to RTSP beforehand)

[@mostlychris]

Give it a try!

[@peterdigitalit]

Hi man, Great tutorial. I just bought new cameras that Frigate community recommended and Frigate work like a charm. How ever i dont like the live view in Frigate so i have been using the HACS add on WebRTC and sure i get pictures but i have to manually put the rtsp links i every live feed and i still get som error in white text overlayed thet goe away so i can copy them and show you. Now i have removed the HACS WebRTC add on and going to try this. I already have cameras setup in HA with Frigate so i dont think i need the generic camera right? Will this interfere somehow with my Frigate? Thank you and have a nice day

[@mostlychris]

It won't interfere with Frigate directly. However, you need to consider how many streams your cameras will allow at one time and how much capacity your network has. Try it out and see what happens. It's all about experimenting and figuring out the best solution for your environment.

[@kpurintun]

This works wonders for one of my cams.. the garage cam that lets me see if my doors are closed and when I left lights on. I can switch the light on and off and see the change really quickly. Oddly, only one of my 8 unifi cams (connected to UDMP) work and one foscam.. does this work for Nest doorbell Gen1? I just get errors that say "Failed to start WebRTC Stream: RTSPtoWeb Server failure: stream channel codec not ready, possible stream offline: Internal Server Error" Weird that I cannot see any of the video streams from the RTSPtoWeb UI. The ones that work do not have the preload and snap up super fast. Thanks for your videos, they are really great and loaded with details.

[@mostlychris]

You won't be able to see any of the streams in the RTSPtoWeb UI until you actually view them via the add-on. You can manually add them of course to that interface. I'm not sure if this works with the Nest doorbell. Allan is using this with the Nest integration stuff but I don't know for sure if Gen1 is supported. You might want to jump into my Discord and ask in the camera channel.

[@nurimoca]

I was able to run the cameras, but only with internal network access, when I try to remote access it doesn't work. Do you know how to solve this?

[@troutt1744]

Had high hopes. It worked awesome on the computer. Unfortunately it does not play on my Samsung tablet running fully kiosk browser.

[@-Gadget-]

Thanks for the clarification on this Addon. This definitely works in getting the image with less lag. I still have the same issue I had originally with Alex's build in that it opens the stream quickly, but if I experience any movement on the cameras (car driving past, people walking or birds crossing the path) the feed blanks out to a grey background and stays that way for a few minutes until any movement ceases (a person can actually see pixelation on the top of the feed while it's in the grey state. I'm assuming the feed is still active just trying to catch up again or something to that effect) . I was quite lucky in that when I initially installed home assistant, it pre found all my cameras running on my dvr, so I never had to sit battling to add it, but the latency is absolutely horrendous (sometimes I manage to see a 30 second delay at worst, but an average of 15-20 seconds isn't uncommon) I am currently using it with this anomaly where it blanks out and gives me a grey screen. Although annoying, it is still better than the native solution home assistant added. Maybe one day I'll figure out a hack and get it working properly, who knows 🤷🏼‍♂️ Thanks again for the tutorial, at least now I can add feeds without having to decipher code in the "Custom" cards 🤣 Edit. Thought I'd take a chance and post my code, so if anyone notices an error, and knows how to solve it, or tweak it, it would be most appreciated. - platform: generic name: Main Gate still_image_url: 10.0.0.21/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi?channel=1 authentication: digest username: user password: pass stream_source: rtsp://user:pass@10.0.0.21/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0 A boring view of what's happening bellow: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5O2pqypeJKfhbc Edit: Edit. Scratch that thought, solved the problem by changing the codec on the DVR from H264 to H264H 😃

[@mostlychris]

It sounds like you got it working in the end. There are so many formats/codecs/audio settings on each end of things so sometimes it takes a bit of experimentation.

[@ryanandrewbaker]

This is great, thanks. Strangely when casting the image to a google screen it has 20+ seconds of latency, but in the glance card it's instant. Confusing and will need more digging by me. Thanks again.

[@mostlychris]

Let us know if you find anything on that.

[@gismoscherer]

How to set this all up under proxmox and not within HA and stream all of it via frigate proxy to HA

[@otaconoverdrive]

There are currently 2 supported add-ons, with the RTSPtoWebRTC add-on supporting audio. So that's not unique to the "custom" webrtc integration as suggested at 16:43

[@mostlychris]

Thanks for the clarification.

[@edwardlytton1548]

Hi Chris, very good video and a good, free alternative. I personally prefer the Blue iris app (up to 64 cameras) and have all my cameras on one map. Available in Homeassistant cost once 70 Dollars (in Germany)

[@mostlychris]

I used BI for a long time prior to Frigate and the other stuff in HA. So you are saying there is a Bi supplied Home Assistant plugin/app/integration?

[@Joseph-ko2kl]

@@mostlychris I think he is talking about the integration through HACS

[@edwardlytton1548]

@@Joseph-ko2kl Yes , is a Hac Application

[@edwardlytton1548]

@@mostlychris It is a Homeassistant App under Hacs and it works good

[@mostlychris]

Ahh ok. I was using that before Frigate. BI works great and I have/had no problems with it...until the power kept going out and that huge PC I needed wouldn't run long. Then I ran Frigate on the Odroid N2+ with little overhead and that works for my scenario. Each person has a use case that fits what they need/want. I still pay a BI license in case I want to use it again.

[@ngoctaiquach3144]

Please help me fix the error "This entity does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the UI. See the documentation for more details" when adding a H.265 standard Yoosee brand camera to the home assistant. Thank you very much!

[@Musicman-50]

Would I be correct to assume this integration would easily overload Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 3b+ ?

[@mostlychris]

I don't think so. Depends on what else is running but I had 5 cameras running on a pi4 with no issues. If you are streaming 4k, it might make more of a difference. Test it out and let us know!

[@alexgill2154]

With your guidance, thinking I followed okay with the HA logs running clean. Maybe it's because I'm accessing remotely (via Nabu Casa) and don't understand the connectivity, but the Picture Glance Card set to 'live' shows a black box... Yet changing it from live to auto (all w/o the pre-load option), the feed then refreshes a frame every ~10 seconds. Work in progress here, and thanks VM for getting it moving!

[@mostlychris]

Sounds like you maybe don't have the RTSPtoWeb server running/installed?

[@alexgill2154]

@@mostlychris I had a another look and the Add-in was running clean, so this time I changed the RTSP camera URLs in configuration.yaml to use substreams of 640x480 and it's very good, with a one second lag betweek NTP and the feeds onscreen timestamp! TYVM

[@mostlychris]

Glad it's working!

[@ManuMora]

Can the two cameras audios be heard at the same time? I would need it for two kids rooms. Thank you!

[@mostlychris]

I have more than one camera with audio and I can hear both of them at the same time.

[@tarcisio_menezes]

Great video! I have a question though. I get about 2~3 seconds using the default LL HLS. But when I cast the camera to a google tv I get 20~25 seconds delay. Is it the same for you? if so, is there a solution for it? I have a doorbell camera and the ideia was to create an automation to stream the camera to the tv whenever someone rings the doorbell, but 20~25 seconds delay make this automation useless.

[@mostlychris]

I don't have a good answer for that since I haven't tried to send it to my tv. I would think that the delay is due to "negotiation" with the TV and getting all the network stream stuff set up. Have you tried sending video directly from a source to the TV and see how long that takes?

[@tarcisio_menezes]

@@mostlychris I can't think about another way to send to the tv. What do you mean by "send directly"? Can you give me some examples? Then I can try here. Thank you so much.

[@mostlychris]

I was just asking if you've tried to get the cast to accept a video stream directly from some other source to see if it has a similar delay. Just running through troubleshooting steps in my head and thought about process of elimination.

[@Rich33527]

You can cast the lovelace view to the Chromecast. It takes a few seconds to load, but it is live.

[@biggyk87]

Im confused how did the entities get into HA? You just started the addon then you started creating glance cards.

[@bernisworlds]

Q did you find a way to integrate the PTZ Control inside HA? I only by using the API but this open everytime a login window

[@mostlychris]

There is some PTZ discussed here on the frigate card github.com/dermotduffy/frigate-hass-card. Not sure if you are using frigate or not.

[@MrAsafalfa]

Hi Chris, Thanks for this video. As alway you reall explaing that really good but this time im having an issue. All my cameras works just fine with Generic Camera (basic) but when i installing the RTSptoWEB its stops to work and also th WEBRTC does not showing anything .. eventually it timesout ... Is there a reason?

[@MrAsafalfa]

i found the issue ! it seems like webrtc CANT work with h265+ :/ so i had to down grade to H264 which is old.... How come this is not yet supporting this ?

[@MrAsafalfa]

More point to mention in case using cloudflare solution with zero trust - video stream does not work when you out side - can you tell us what need to be done ... (this is for a glace validation not 24H use so i dont break the cloudflare role)

[@amadomaldonadogalvan5920]

Hello ! that was very nice, thx for sharing, I am having problems with the video streaming on my camera, I am using the Tuya integration and all my devices are listed on the dashboard, but when I try to see the video, doesn't load, neither on the card, Is there is something I can do ? There is no live feed or any feed actually. But on the smart life app, it works just fine.

[@mostlychris]

Can you see an RTSP live stream from any of those cameras in something like VLC? You need to verify that those cameras have a compatible stream.

[@amadomaldonadogalvan5920]

@@mostlychris How can I find the direction to use in a VLC stream ? I have done it with other cameras, not with tuya, where can I find it ?

[@TheRealAnthony_real]

I'm using frigate cards ... selected frigate in the frigate card as a stream provider ( not webrtc) and it works with a 2 seconds delay .. Tried the picture glance ... as per this video and compared the speed between 2 browsers side by side one running the rtsp to web and the other just frigate card with frigate as a camera provide and it seems they run the same .. .however what I`m not sure off .. is if I`m really running the webrtc addon because when I clcik on rtsptoWeb I see no cams stats ... Update: just realised the difference when I actually added the stream of the camera in the rtsp to webrtc add-on manually .. Huge difference but only in the add-on rtsptoweb UI .. when I add a picture glance in home assistant it still has latency of 2-3 seconds ... I`m just wondering why is this ? It would be nice to integrate this addon with frigate card where it would allow you to select the rtsp to webrtc but still keep frigate card. I find that if you select the rtsp stream in frigate and select frigate JSMpeg it`s just straming live stream which is really cool.

[@mostlychris]

Might be restating what you said here, but frigate doesn't know about RTSPtoWeb so it doesn't use that (as far as I can tell). RTSPtoWeb relies on the configured cameras in configuration.yaml and doesn't know about the others so I don't think they are using the same underlying streaming. There is also LL HLS that will work with the picture glance cards if you don't install both the RTSPtoWeb add-on AND the integration. That might be fast enough for some.

[@Mrlinatsa69]

Hello sir, i just installed the RTSPtoWebRTC but when i press start nothing happens at all. it get stuck there. Any suggestions?

[@ngoctaiquach3144]

Great video. I followed your instructions, but the time on camera is 1970/1/1 and there is no sound (speaker image in the bottom right corner is locked) Help me! Thanks very much!

[@mostlychris]

Is the camera generating the time? If so you'll need to update that in the camera itself. RTSP only has sound for certain stream types. Does your camera have sound if you stream it directly in something like VLC?

[@bernisworlds]

6:46 when i add repo i dont see any kind of RTC when i search for it, what can be the issue?

[@tinkerer67]

Unable to install this plugin. Tried several times but the installation of this plugin doesn't work. Just idles.

[@imranghafoor7639]

Hi Chris, followed this and got everything working. But now I have found that my glance cards do not work on external network, I just get a blank card. If I disable the integration then they load but are slow again as before installing this. I am using duckdns. Any tips how to get this working. Thanks

[@mostlychris]

It could be a port issue. If you are using duckdns and the cards are on a specific port you'll need to forward that port. Have you tried Nabu Casa that doesn't require port forwarding for anything that has ingress support or is native to HA?

[@LuigiGaudino]

@@mostlychris I also have the same problem, even using nabu casa or other vpn. The problem is my firewall (pfsense) blocking traffic but I can't resolve. Where is the configuration for the UDP ports used? Thank you

[@jmr]

I saw "Fam aprs". Have you integrated aprs into HomeAssistant? That's a topic I've been thinking about for a long time.

[@mostlychris]

I have not. That is a bookmark ( and stop stalking my bookmarks 😀 ) to all the APRS trackers myself and my brothers have. It's a quick look at where everyone is--as long as they turn them on once in awhile.

[@jmr]

@@mostlychris I recognized the icon as aprs.fi. 🤣 As a ham my eyes were immediately drawn to it.

[@mostlychris]

@@jmr Lol. Probably like my eyes are drawn to antenna towers I see as I drive down the road--or am I just weird....

[@jmr]

@@mostlychris ABSOLUTELY! There's a really nice antenna farm not far from me. The guy used to run a 6M repeater.

[@beauhookway3617]

I'm having a issue where I can view the camera from my local network but once I use my phone Internet to access out of the house it doesn't show me video. Any ideas?

[@mostlychris]

The URL that you are specifying in the camera cards is probably only reachable internally. That would be my first guess.

[@cjjay9627]

Hi There, I've followed your instructions but I'm unable to access the 8083 port using the webUI and as a result get the corresponding error in my logs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It says server failure. Not found.

[@mostlychris]

Lots of reasons this could be. If you look in the Home Assistant logs, does it give you any clues such as a port already in use or something like that? How about in the add-on log? Also, make sure the add-on is running.

[@cjjay9627]

Hey mate. I've got a bunch of information. Would you mind if I PM it to you if you don't mind taking a look?

[@mostlychris]

Feel free to throw it in my Discord. Use the frigate-cams... channel so other eyes can see it as well and maybe get you an answer quicker.

[@battletv777]

Eufy can you use it? Thanks for the video Chris.

[@mostlychris]

I don't have any Eufy devices so I can only go with what this page says: www.home-assistant.io/integrations/eufy/. It only shows Light and Switch type devices as being integrated into Home Assistant. This page does show an integration so you might try that: github.com/fuatakgun/eufy_security

[@battletv777]

@@mostlychris Yes currently use the one offerred but it suffers the delay issue, maybe that answers my question, but just so curious to options. Fuatakgun is doing a great job. Does yours have a homebase or just a NVR, maybe it's the authentication part that's harder for Eufy to comprehend? I'm still going to have a play around with it, see if it does work... But awesome you started the ball rolling on showing it. Not many have since the update.

[@mostlychris]

Not sure what a homebase is. My cameras are direct on the network so there is nothing between them and the RTSPtoWeb server. They do use auth, but it doesn't affect the speed at which they render.

[@battletv777]

@@mostlychris On holidays now I will be testing...... Will be interesting............... Fuatakgun has updated to so bit to do testing both.

[@battleflint]

cameras appear, but the picture is in place on all cameras, why?

[@PaulRichards1]

Seems pretty hit or miss. I have 10 or so Wyze cams that I loaded RTSP firmware onto. They will load properly on a lovelace view using RTSPtoWeb about 30% of the time. If they don't load immediately when I click on a view tab, they won't ever load either which is kind of a pain.

[@mostlychris]

Is that an issue with the Wyze cams? What resolution are you running them at. It could be that you are overloading your device or your network.

[@PaulRichards1]

​@@mostlychris I ended up having to change my home assistant installation from a raspberry pi 4 to loading it on Docker through my Synology NAS. The RTSPtoWeb integration works much better through Docker for my Wyze cams. Not sure why, but I'm happy with it now.

[@mostlychris]

@@PaulRichards1 More juice! Glad it's working. I just think you needed more horsepower, especially with that many cams.

[@nlublovary]

Same experience here, sometimes it play, sometimes it won't. Also there seems to be a bug with high CPU loads after a while. Try rtsp-simple-server which does the same, but I found it lighter on resources and works every time. Using it with Wyze v2 and v3 cams with RTSP firmware.

[@fred7flinstone]

I've installed the add-on but I can't open the web ui. "The site can't be reached" refused to connect. (port 8083).

[@mostlychris]

Are you doing this on the local network? Are you using the IP address of the HA instance? In configuration, is 8083 listed under "http_port". Make sure you are using http and not https as well.

[@fred7flinstone]

@@mostlychris Yeah, on the local network. I am using duck-dns so not sure I can use http. I'll re-install and check the config, I just used the button on the add-on.

[@fred7flinstone]

@@mostlychris Thanks for the info.

[@mostlychris]

@@fred7flinstone Good luck!

[@ansomeBob]

I'm having the same issue but I use https with remote access and DuckDNS, will it not work then?

[@BluelightGaming1]

This works terribly for me... But to be fair the main issue is my nest hello doorbell integration and the video from that is already laggy... This makes it worse. Not sure how it would work with other stuff

[@mostlychris]

Cloud services don't always behave the way we would like. All my cameras, including my new doorbell have local RTSP streams.

[@ArthurvanGinderachter]

Can I install this with HACS? I dont have the addon store in my settings

[@mostlychris]

There is a different WebRTC integration in HACS. It's not the same as this one but you can use WebRTC cards with it.

[@ArthurvanGinderachter]

@@mostlychris I did that already but is very slow and lagy with the android app of HomeAssistent

[@mostlychris]

@@ArthurvanGinderachter I assume you can't install HACS because of the way you are running Home Assistant (non supervised)?

[@ArthurvanGinderachter]

@@mostlychris No, HACS is installed on my container in Homeassistent.

[@mostlychris]

@@ArthurvanGinderachter Have you tried the other WebRTC?

[@DavidFerreira1986]

you did not explain how to add the camera entitie....

[@danielducu]

No remote view…

[@mostlychris]

There has been discussion on this. No MSE. My workaround has been to use the custom webrtc card or just VPN using wireguard or tailscale. Those put me on the local network and then I can view the RTSPtoWeb feeds.

[@vento3232]

love the video but this is pretty much useless as you can only steam the cameras on LAN. I would have thought that HA is acting as a proxy in this situation and we are not streaming directly to the device (for example the Companion mobile app over cellular). did you find any workaround? obviously the last thing you want to do is to expose / forward the ports on the router. and of course without turning on VPN each time. Thanks!

[@mostlychris]

There are some options to be able to reach your local network via things like Tailscale, Cloudflare Argo, etc. Those don't require opening up ports. If I have to stream like that, I just turn on tailscale to reach my network. Usually though, I just deal with the alerts and clips while away (using frigate and notifications).

[@vento3232]

@@mostlychris I tried that with Frigate but gave up as TPU keeps freezing my cameras whenever it starts a detection process, I spent too much time trying to troubleshoot Frigate, when it works, it works great, but when it doesn't the troubleshooting process is such a torture!

[@mostlychris]

@@vento3232 That's disappointing. I wonder what is happening. TPU is freezing the cameras??

[@vento3232]

@@mostlychris I finally found the issue after days of torture! It turned out that one of the TPUs on my dual TPU. M2 board is causing this issue on detection. I turned only the other one and it seems stable now. Even though it did recognize both of them! But one is somehow faulty