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FFmpeg Noise Binary Sensor: stops working after a few hours

See original GitHub issue

The problem

FFmpeg Noise Binary Sensor stops working approximately one hour after restart hass or ffmpeg service while FFmpeg Motion Binary Sensor continues to work.

Calling the service ffmpeg.restart seems to fix it temporarily.

What is version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2021.9.6

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

FFmpeg Noise

Link to integration documentation on our website

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

Example YAML snippet

binary_sensor:
  - platform: ffmpeg_noise
    input: rtsp://admin:password@192.168.1.10:554//h264Preview_01_main
    peak: -30
    name: cry_detect

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Maybe related:

2021-09-18 15:33:46 WARNING (MainThread) [haffmpeg.core] Timeout while waiting of FFmpeg

Additional information

The exact same issue was reported 4 years ago and closed without resolution: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/7081

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:9 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

timdonovanukcommented, Apr 19, 2022

Still an issue in latest HA.

0reactions

conorlapcommented, Aug 3, 2022

For what it’s worth, I’ve added the below extra_arguments: -nostats to my sensor and it’s been rock solid for a day so far! Info obtained from the FFmpeg Noise Troubleshooting section.


binary_sensor:
  - platform: ffmpeg_noise
    input: FFMPEG_SUPPORTED_INPUT
    extra_arguments: -nostats

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