[Camera Support]: Not able to see video stream

Describe the problem you are having

Hello Community, I’m having trouble to see my Webcam stream in Home Assistant (https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B0766175L7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1).

I’m able to see the video stream in VLC using the same RTSP path that I’m using in the frigate.yml configuration file.

I’ve a Rpi3. I used the app Yoosee to add the Webcam to my wifi network. In the Setting section of the app I enabled the NVR connection in order to let the Webcam be accessible by other softwares and of course I set a password that’s the same I use in the RTSP link.

Version

0.11.1

Frigate config file

mqtt:
  host: 192.168.x.xx
  user: myuser
  password: mypwd
  
detectors:
  cpu1:
    type: cpu
    num_threads: 3
  cpu2:
    type: cpu
    num_threads: 3

cameras:
  cucina: # <------ Name the camera
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
         - path: rtsp://admin:[e-mail]:554/onvif1
           roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
    rtmp:
      enabled: False # <-- RTMP should be disabled if your stream is not H264
    detect:
      width: 1280 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
      height: 720 # <---- update for your camera's resolution

Relevant log output

[2022-11-21 13:53:51] frigate.app                    INFO    : Output process started: 215
[2022-11-21 13:53:51] frigate.app                    INFO    : Camera processor started for cucina: 217
[2022-11-21 13:53:51] frigate.app                    INFO    : Capture process started for cucina: 218
[2022-11-21 13:53:52] ws4py                          INFO    : Using epoll
[2022-11-21 13:53:54] frigate.video                  ERROR   : cucina: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
[2022-11-21 13:53:54] frigate.video                  ERROR   : cucina: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...
[2022-11-21 13:54:11] watchdog.cucina                ERROR   : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for cucina.
[2022-11-21 13:54:11] watchdog.cucina                ERROR   : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
[2022-11-21 13:54:11] ffmpeg.cucina.detect           ERROR   : [rtsp @ 0x4e8e70] Unable to open RTSP for listening
[2022-11-21 13:54:11] ffmpeg.cucina.detect           ERROR   : rtsp://admin:[e-mail]:554/onvif1: Cannot assign requested address
[2022-11-21 13:54:12] frigate.video                  ERROR   : cucina: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
[2022-11-21 13:54:12] frigate.video                  ERROR   : cucina: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...
[2022-11-21 13:54:21] watchdog.cucina                ERROR   : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for cucina.
[2022-11-21 13:54:21] watchdog.cucina                ERROR   : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
[2022-11-21 13:54:21] ffmpeg.cucina.detect           ERROR   : [rtsp @ 0x964e70] Unable to open RTSP for listening
[2022-11-21 13:54:21] ffmpeg.cucina.detect           ERROR   : rtsp://admin:[e-mail]:554/onvif1: Cannot assign requested address
[2022-11-21 13:54:21] frigate.video                  ERROR   : cucina: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
[2022-11-21 13:54:21] frigate.video                  ERROR   : cucina: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...
[2022-11-21 13:54:31] watchdog.cucina                ERROR   : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for cucina.
[2022-11-21 13:54:31] watchdog.cucina                ERROR   : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
[2022-11-21 13:54:31] ffmpeg.cucina.detect           ERROR   : [rtsp @ 0x1d88e70] Unable to open RTSP for listening
[2022-11-21 13:54:31] ffmpeg.cucina.detect           ERROR   : rtsp://admin:[e-mail]:554/onvif1: Cannot assign requested address
[2022-11-21 13:54:32] frigate.video                  ERROR   : cucina: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
[2022-11-21 13:54:32] frigate.video                  ERROR   : cucina: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
[2022-11-21 13:54:32] frigate.video                  ERROR   : cucina: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...
[2022-11-21 13:54:41] watchdog.cucina                ERROR   : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for cucina.
[2022-11-21 13:54:41] watchdog.cucina                ERROR   : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to

FFprobe output from your camera

N/A

Frigate stats

N/A

Operating system

HassOS

Install method

HassOS Addon

Coral version

CPU (no coral)

Network connection

Wireless

Camera make and model

Onvif P2P wifi

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[Knot83]

@Knot83 What helped me early on is making sure the RTSP link was a usable one. I tested it using VLC which can open an RTSP stream, on a Windows PC on the same network as Frigate. Once I knew the RTSP link is correct and readable in VLC, it worked in Frigate.

As I said in the post, the RTSP link works correctly in VLC

[Knot83]

Change the tcp in your input args to udp

It works, thank you so much