Stream not streaming in HASS about ring-hassio HOT 3 OPEN

It works for me, don't use generic camera but ffmpeg.

  # Ring Feed
  - platform: ffmpeg
    name: Ring LAN ffmpeg
    input: http://<<HA IP>>:3000/public/stream.m3u8

My setup on HA records on motion, saves to a HA media folder, HA media folder is rsynced on linux to external drive, send notification to devices and it works neat. Only issue is I had to charge my Ring every week until I hard wired it - I no longer pay for Ring Protect but the issue is motion alerts do not work as well, wind moves my bush and I get notified as there is no human detection.

You'll need to enable the addon on demand or else your battery will die within a hour or two.

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Do you have sound on your video?
I have no sound

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Do you have sound on your video?
I have no sound

@merlin2k No, I do not have sound either.

HA does not support audio with AAC ffmpeg integration it seems. I use an WyzeCam 2 (128mb device - 64mb devices shutter a lot) with dafang hacks and 1080p bootloader - setting audio encoding of MP3 and AAC and with either encodings I have same issue with HA under a different device. Btw, Ring camera stream quality is poor compared to cheaper cameras - no way that is 1080p.

I probed the stream coming from this add-on and see that audio is AAC. The video is h264 at 640x360. My internet connection is over 5G and I get about 600/50 (hovers around 400-600Mbps) with latency of 9ms, Ring doorbell connected via 2.4Ghz with RSSI - 48, I do not think Ring is throttling via adaptive streaming, but it does look like the live stream is not 1080p but recordings are 1080p.

Unfortunately, this is an issue with HA ffmpeg component and not this add-on. I am considering selling my Ring doorbell as it is really bad, but I got it on Black Friday with workplace discount for £46 but I feel like it's not worth it at all.

I had a look online and I can't find many people getting audio working with ffmpeg. If you use generic component for camera - there is some issue with it not displaying, as HA looks for a constant stream at start-up before the add-on is started and as it can't find this stream, it does not display anything despite the add-on becoming available later. I don't know if the generic component has worked in previous HA versions but that is the problem. The generic component would just proxy the stream to the located m3u8 - it does no processing unlike ffmpeg.

Stream Probe:

streams :
0 :
index : 0
codec_name : h264
codec_long_name : H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
profile : Main
codec_type : video
codec_time_base : 0/2
codec_tag_string : [27][0][0][0]
codec_tag : 0x001b
width : 640
height : 360
coded_width : 640
coded_height : 384
has_b_frames : 0
pix_fmt : yuv420p
level : 30
chroma_location : left
refs : 1
is_avc : false
nal_length_size : 0
r_frame_rate : 90000/1
avg_frame_rate : 0/0
time_base : 1/90000
start_pts : 497278
start_time : 5.525311
bits_per_raw_sample : 8
disposition :
default : 0
dub : 0
original : 0
comment : 0
lyrics : 0
karaoke : 0
forced : 0
hearing_impaired : 0
visual_impaired : 0
clean_effects : 0
attached_pic : 0
timed_thumbnails : 0
tags :
variant_bitrate : 0
1 :
index : 1
codec_name : aac
codec_long_name : AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
codec_type : audio
codec_time_base : 1/0
codec_tag_string : [15][0][0][0]
codec_tag : 0x000f
sample_fmt : fltp
sample_rate : 0
channels : 0
bits_per_sample : 0
r_frame_rate : 0/0
avg_frame_rate : 0/0
time_base : 1/90000
disposition :
default : 0
dub : 0
original : 0
comment : 0
lyrics : 0
karaoke : 0
forced : 0
hearing_impaired : 0
visual_impaired : 0
clean_effects : 0
attached_pic : 0
timed_thumbnails : 0
tags :
variant_bitrate : 0
format :
filename : http://HA-IPadr:3000/public/stream.m3u8
nb_streams : 2
nb_programs : 1
format_name : hls,applehttp
format_long_name : Apple HTTP Live Streaming
start_time : 5.525311
probe_score : 100
url : http://HA-IPadr:3000/public/stream.m3u8
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