core: Stream is not live

Home Assistant release with the issue: 91.1

Last working Home Assistant release (if known):

Operating environment (Hass.io/Docker/Windows/etc.): Docker Foscam R4 camera

Component/platform: Stream

Description of problem: I’m not explicitly using the streaming service, but viewing the stream from Lovelace UI. I see the still of the camera in the picture entity card, and it is current. When I click the still, the stream may be old, sometimes days old. This is with “Preload Stream” enabled (without, it never seems to load).
I’ve seen it with other cameras as well, but the R4 seems to always do it.

Problem-relevant configuration.yaml entries and (fill out even if it seems unimportant):

  - platform: foscam
    ip: <local ip>
    port: 88
    username: !secret camera_user
    password: !secret camera_password
    name: Home Camera

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About this issue

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 19 (6 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Good clarification BertilJ. Yes the “old” is usually the same clip for me as well for some time. I haven’t yet nailed down where that clip comes from (i.e. if it’s from the last restart or what) and I have been restarting hass a lot lately, adding this or tweaking that.

I have also tried from different devices and even networks and can see the same video. So whatever it is is “cached” inside hass somewhere.

TarheelGrad1998 on Apr 11, 2019

Same issue here running 0.96.5. Stream running for about 20 hours before it hangs. Reboot fixes it for another 20 hours or so.

This didn’t happen when my cameras was setup with platform: mjpg, but occured when I changed to platform: generic. Cameras running through Blue Iris.

jyrki69 on Aug 2, 2019