[Bug]: Blinking/Dropping Feeds in Live View

[jasonmh37]

Describe the problem you are having

I am having difficulty watching live view. Every 15 secs or so, the camera feeds will blink black and then restart. Also there are frequent times the camera feed won't start or will freeze.

Steps to reproduce

Open Live view.

Version

0.14.0-bccffe6

Frigate config file

mqtt:
  enabled: false

detectors:
  coral:
    type: edgetpu
    device: usb

ffmpeg:
  hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi
  input_args: preset-rtsp-restream

go2rtc:
  streams:
    Outdoor_Front:
      - rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:11002/Streaming/Channels/101/
    Outdoor_Zoom:
      - rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:554/Streaming/Channels/101/
    Outdoor_Bullet:
      - rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:554/Streaming/Channels/101/
    Living_room:
      - rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:8554/video1_unicast

detect:
  fps: 6
  stationary:
    interval: 50
    threshold: 50

objects:
  # Optional: list of objects to track from labelmap.txt (default: shown below)
  track:
    - person
    - car
    - bicycle
    - motorcycle
    - dog
    - cat

motion:
  threshold: 25

record:
  enabled: true
  retain:
    days: 10
    mode: motion
  events:
    pre_capture: 4
    post_capture: 3
    objects:
      - person
      - car
      - bicycle
      - motorcycle
      - dog
      - cat
    retain:
      # Required: Default retention days (default: shown below)
      default: 10
      mode: motion

snapshots:
  enabled: true
  timestamp: false
  bounding_box: true
  retain:
    # Required: Default retention days (default: shown below)
    default: 10


cameras:
  Outdoor_Front: # <------ Name the camera
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:11002/Streaming/Channels/102/ # <----- Update for your camera
          roles:
            - detect
        - path: rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:11002/Streaming/Channels/101/ # <----- Update for your camera
          roles:
            - record

  Outdoor_Zoom: # <------ Name the camera
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:554/Streaming/Channels/102/ # <----- Update for your camera
          roles:
            - detect
        - path: rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:554/Streaming/Channels/101/ # <----- Update for your camera
          roles:
            - record

  Outdoor_Bullet: # <------ Name the camera
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:554/Streaming/Channels/102/ # <----- Update for your camera
          roles:
            - detect
        - path: rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:554/Streaming/Channels/101/ # <----- Update for your camera
          roles:
            - record

  Living_room: # <------ Name the camera
    detect:
      fps: 4
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:8554/video2_unicast # <----- Update for your camera
          roles:
            - detect
        - path: rtsp://ZZZ:[email protected]:8554/video1_unicast # <----- Update for your camera
          roles:
            - record


version: 0.14

Relevant log output

No identified relevant log

Operating system

Debian

Install method

Docker Compose

Network connection

Wired

Camera make and model

Hikvision

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[lineumaciel]

This is how the new automatic livemode works. I have similar symptoms. As far as getting MSE under control, like you sometimes MSE closes stream for no reason. This works nice on desktop browsers but on ios it is a bit tiresome

[hawkeye217]

When you say "live view", are you talking about watching a single camera or watching the Live dashboard with all of your cameras?

[jasonmh37]

I was writing about the new live dashboard in 0.14. I am on MacOS viewing through Chrome browser. I also notice similar behavior on Android Chrome, but on mobile it is more often to cycle between the substream and main stream in the "blinking" behavior.

[NickM-27]

it is difficult to tell if you might just be describing the normal behavior as the camera detects motion / objects and then stops

[jasonmh37]

@NickM-27

If that is intended behavior, apologies and please close this as a potential bug. But, it was unclear that the "live" view to me was meant to only be live when motion is detected. Perhaps some advice in the documentation or if there is a way to enable a real "live" view while keeping motion recordings, that would be helpful to point me towards.

[hawkeye217]

Have a look at the release notes for 0.14 beta:

Your camera images update once per minute when no detectable activity is occurring to conserve bandwidth and resources. As soon as any motion is detected, cameras seamlessly switch to a full-resolution live stream.