Privacy without error logs in Home Assistant

[McGiverGim]

Hi! The new privacy switch is great, I use it a lot, but I've a "cosmetic" problem with it. When enabled, the Home Assistant log shows a lot of errors because is trying to connect with the camera RTSP or snapshot stream.

2021-09-30 09:14:48 ERROR (stream_worker) [libav.tcp] Connection to tcp://192.168.100.20:554?timeout=5000000 failed: Connection refused
2021-09-30 09:14:48 ERROR (stream_worker) [homeassistant.components.stream.worker] Error opening stream rtsp://****:****@192.168.100.20/ch0_0.h264

Is there a way to tell Home Assistant that the camera image is down, stopped or suspended? In this way it will not try to connect with it I suppose. Thanks!

[roleoroleo]

I will check it.

[McGiverGim]

The generic camera integration (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/camera/) has a service turn_off that I suppose internally will do it. But I don't know if it is implemented in some of the real camera implementations.

Thanks for looking at it!!

[roleoroleo]

I can't see errors in the logs. What is the event causing the error? When you use a lovelace card?

[McGiverGim]

Yes, I have one standard lovelace image card (hidden when privacy is on), but I don't need to go to the UI to produce the errors. They appear in the log each few seconds. Maybe it loads the camera in the background? I don't know. I have too a very basic face recognition added on top of the camera: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/dlib_face_detect/ I don't know if it can hurt...

[roleoroleo]

What's your debug configuration? Could you try to disable temporarily the face detection feature?

[McGiverGim]

I don't have any debug configuration, so I have it default.

I tried to disable the face detection and the error continues.

This is what I get just enabling the privacy switch:

2021-09-30 16:46:56 ERROR (stream_worker) [homeassistant.components.stream.worker] Error demuxing stream:
2021-09-30 16:47:06 ERROR (stream_worker) [libav.tcp] Connection to tcp://192.168.100.20:554?timeout=5000000 failed: Connection refused
2021-09-30 16:47:06 ERROR (stream_worker) [homeassistant.components.stream.worker] Error opening stream rtsp://****:****@192.168.100.20/ch0_0.h264

It's weird that you can't reproduce it :( maybe if others have the same problem can point to something more...

[roleoroleo]

I think you shouldn't see the error, if you are not "consuming" the stream. Because ha shouldn't open a connection. Is there another client application connected to ha?

[McGiverGim]

No that I'm aware off. It happened to me too when I was using the ONVIF integration and deactivate the camera using the web service.

Do you have enabled the Preload stream? Maybe if enabled the stream is accessed always...

[roleoroleo]

Enabling preload the error appears. But I don't know ho to fix it. turn_on, turn_off, is_on and is_off are already implemented. Do you know a cam that doesn't show errors, I could take it as an example.

[McGiverGim]

No, I don't know of other cameras... Maybe it's a bug on the Home Assistant side?

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