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alexa: camera stream is 10s late

See original GitHub issue

The problem

The camera handler for alexa doesn’t set the ll_hls flag for streaming. This makes the camera stream 10s late.

Also, Alexa supports RTSP stream, so it seems redundant for RTSP cameras to switch to HLS (be it LL or not).

See: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/2022.11.4/homeassistant/components/alexa/handlers.py#L1709-L1745

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2022.11.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

2022.11.4

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Core

Integration causing the issue

Alexa

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.nabucasa.com/config/amazon_alexa/

Diagnostics information

config_entry-generic-b5470678ab465d1a8884ee4112bef443.json.txt

Example YAML snippet

No response

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

No response

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 10 months ago
Comments:21 (12 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

jbouwhcommented, Dec 2, 2022

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/generic/

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allenportercommented, Dec 16, 2022

I will learn about Alexa and WebRTC – don’t have any background with that.

One other hack i’ve done in the past is to cast a home assistant panel that has a camera stream card on it, rather than the stream itself. (I used this to get webrtc cast working, and it can also work to get LL-HLS cast working)

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