Choppy video

[SpencerKaiser]

For whatever reason the video feed on all of my cameras is super choppy; I get like 1 frame every 3-5 seconds. Any idea what could be amiss? It also takes between 5-10 seconds to start a camera fee ☹️

[dgreif]

See https://github.com/dgreif/ring/wiki/Camera-Troubleshooting#live-stream-quality

[SpencerKaiser]

So I've done a lot of debugging on my end and did find one issue with my network but I resolved that and I'm still seeing super poor quality. I hopped on the ring app and the quality is great, so I'm not sure where to go from here... any suggestions? I did enable logging and saw some strange stuff (my video just stopped at some point and now shows "This camera is not recording" and it has some funky errors:

[3/1/2023, 11:00:46 AM] [Ring] Stopped Live Stream for Patio Floodlight Camera
[3/1/2023, 11:00:46 AM] [Ring] connectionStateChange: closed
[3/1/2023, 11:00:46 AM] [Ring] iceConnectionStateChange: closed
[3/1/2023, 11:00:46 AM] [Ring] Preparing Live Stream for Patio Floodlight Camera
[3/1/2023, 11:00:47 AM] [Ring] Stream Prepared for Patio Floodlight Camera (0.367s)
[3/1/2023, 11:00:47 AM] [Ring] Activating stream for Patio Floodlight Camera (0.444s)
[3/1/2023, 11:00:47 AM] [Ring] WebSocket connected for Patio Floodlight Camera
[3/1/2023, 11:00:53 AM] [Ring] Return Audio (Patio Floodlight Camera): stopped gracefully
[3/1/2023, 11:00:53 AM] [Ring] Return Audio (Patio Floodlight Camera): pipe:: Connection timed out
Finishing stream 0:0 without any data written to it.
[libopus @ 0x33091e0] No bit rate set. Defaulting to 96000 bps.
Output #0, rtp, to 'rtp://127.0.0.1:52477':
  Metadata:
    title           : Talk
    encoder         : Lavf59.16.100
  Stream #0:0: Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 96 kb/s
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc59.18.100 libopus
size=       0kB time=00:00:00.00 bitrate=N/A speed=   0x    
video:0kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: unknown
Exiting normally, received signal 15.

[3/1/2023, 11:00:57 AM] [Ring] From Ring (Patio Floodlight Camera): stopped gracefully
[3/1/2023, 11:00:57 AM] [Ring] From Ring (Patio Floodlight Camera): pipe:: Connection timed out
size=      40kB time=00:00:12.67 bitrate=  25.7kbits/s speed=0.538x    
video:0kB audio:33kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 20.192137%
Exiting normally, received signal 15.

[3/1/2023, 11:00:57 AM] [homebridge-ring] This plugin slows down Homebridge. The write handler for the characteristic 'Selected RTP Stream Configuration' on the accessory 'Patio Floodlight Camera B66F' didn't respond at all!. Please check that you properly call the callback! See https://homebridge.io/w/JtMGR for more info.
[3/1/2023, 11:00:57 AM] [Ring] Stopped Live Stream for Patio Floodlight Camera
[3/1/2023, 11:00:57 AM] [Ring] connectionStateChange: closed
[3/1/2023, 11:00:57 AM] [Ring] iceConnectionStateChange: closed
[3/1/2023, 11:00:57 AM] [Ring] Call ended before answered

I didn't close the camera and had only had it open for like 20 seconds when this happened... any ideas?

[SpencerKaiser]

Also I did enable the un-bridge cameras option and it honestly seemed to make things worse 😅

[dgreif]

Those logs indicate that a connection was established but no packets actually flowed from your camera to homebridge. Again, this is likely network related and not something that can be fixed by the plugin. The diagrams in the document I linked should give you a good idea of the complexity involved in how the packets travel, and finding the week link in that chain is not something I'm able to dive into