Use external stream as live stream

[johnrobertcobbold]

Describe what you are trying to accomplish and why in non technical terms

I want to be able to use the external stream defined in my configuration file (below), such as rtsp://192.168.35.5:8554/front_yard_camera, as the live stream in the Frigate web UI. I am not using the Frigate go2rtc but an external go2rtc instance. Apart from the live stream, everything else works (detection, recording, reviewing through Frigate and the Home Assistant custom:frigate-card with WebRTC ). I can of course view the live stream in Home Assistant but it's annoying that it does not work in the Frigate web UI.

I tried to use the camera name front_yard_camera as defined in the configuration file under live.stream_name but this is not working. When checking the Chrome dev console, I see that a websocket connection is attempted but fails:

WebSocket connection to 'ws://192.168.35.5:5000/live/jsmpeg/front_yard_camera' failed: WebSocket is closed before the connection is established.

Describe the solution you'd like
To be able to view my external go2rtc rtsp using WebRTC the way I can do with the Home Assistant custom:frigate-card

Additional context

Frigate configuration

cameras:
  front_yard_camera:
    ffmpeg:
      hwaccel_args: preset-rpi-64-h264
      output_args:
        record: preset-record-generic-audio-aac
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://192.168.35.5:8554/front_yard_camera?video&audio
          roles:
            - detect
            - audio
            - record
    live:
      stream_name: front_yard_camera

go2rtc configuration:

streams:
    front_yard_camera:
       - rtsp://xxx:xxx@192.168.35.4/stream1
       - ffmpeg:front_yard_camera#audio=aac

[NickM-27]

Frigate has direct control of the internal go2rtc configuration and sets many specific values so it works in a way that it expects. We also use this config file to make decisions. For the improved live view to be used in the UI, the internal go2rtc must be configured

#10181 includes a detailed explanation of this