Camera randomly become unavailable

[Phantomx2]

Hi,
I'm not sure if this is a configuration issue or what, but both of my Tapo (C100 and C200) randomly become unavailable and I'm getting a lot of errors in the logs.

For info, I have Frigate running as a docker container on my Unraid server.
For hardware accel I only use the iGPU of my 13th Gen i3
Everything on latest version.

My config looks like this:

mqtt:
  host: 192.168.0.xx
  user: MQTTUser
  password: Password

go2rtc:
  streams:
    front_1:
    - rtsp://user:pass@192.168.0.145:554/stream1
    front_1_sub:
    - rtsp://user:pass@192.168.0.145:554/stream1substream
    front_2:
    - rtsp://user:pass@192.168.0.62:554/stream1
    front_2_sub:
    - rtsp://user:pass@192.168.0.62:554/stream1substream

  restream:
    force_audio: false

ffmpeg:
  hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi

objects:
  track:
  - person
  - bird
  - dog
  filters:
    bird:
      min_score: 0.7
      threshold: 0.7
    person:
      min_score: 0.5
    dog:
      min_score: 0.5
      threshold: 0.7

snapshots:
  enabled: true
  retain:
    default: 1
record:
  enabled: true
  retain:
    days: 1
    mode: active_objects
  events:
    retain:
      default: 1
      mode: active_objects


cameras:
  front_1:
    ffmpeg:
      output_args:
        record: preset-record-generic
      inputs:
      - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/front_1
        roles:
        - record
        
      - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/front_1_sub
        roles:
        - detect
    detect:
      width: 1280
      height: 720
      fps: 5
    motion:
      mask:
        - 0,36,414,33,411,0,0,0

  front_2:
    ffmpeg:
      output_args:
        record: preset-record-generic
      inputs:
      # Highres
      - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/front_2
        roles:
        - record
      # Lowres
      - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/front_2_sub
        roles:
        - detect
    detect:
      width: 1280
      height: 720
      fps: 5
    motion:
      mask:
        - 0,36,414,33,411,0,0,0`

The errors are something like this:

2024-02-16 16:45:42.297485917  [2024-02-16 16:45:42] watchdog.front_2               ERROR   : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for front_2.
2024-02-16 16:45:42.297537217  [2024-02-16 16:45:42] watchdog.front_2               ERROR   : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
2024-02-16 16:45:42.297571837  [2024-02-16 16:45:42] ffmpeg.front_2.detect          ERROR   : rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/front_2_sub: Connection timed out
2024-02-16 16:45:42.297601081  [2024-02-16 16:45:42] ffmpeg.front_2.detect          ERROR   :     Last message repeated 1 times`

then a couple hundred lines of this:

2024-02-16 16:45:42.305007359  [2024-02-16 16:45:42] ffmpeg.front_2.record          ERROR   : [segment @ 0x562506801a80] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous: 285181778, current: 285181777; changing to 285181779. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.

Then more of this etc....

2024-02-16 16:56:52.345632404  [2024-02-16 16:56:52] ffmpeg.front_2.record          ERROR   : rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/front_2: Connection timed out
2024-02-16 16:56:52.345653145  [2024-02-16 16:56:52] watchdog.front_2               INFO    : Terminating the existing ffmpeg process...
2024-02-16 16:56:52.345670407  [2024-02-16 16:56:52] watchdog.front_2               INFO    : Waiting for ffmpeg to exit gracefully...
2024-02-16 16:57:02.351123604  [2024-02-16 16:57:02] watchdog.front_2               INFO    : No frames received from front_2 in 20 seconds. Exiting ffmpeg...
2024-02-16 16:57:02.351171804  [2024-02-16 16:57:02] watchdog.front_2               INFO    : Waiting for ffmpeg to exit gracefully...
2024-02-16 16:57:02.406305415  [2024-02-16 16:57:02] frigate.video                  ERROR   : front_2: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
2024-02-16 16:57:02.406346444  [2024-02-16 16:57:02] frigate.video                  ERROR   : front_2: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...
2024-02-16 16:57:02.407773147  [2024-02-16 16:57:02] ffmpeg.front_2.record          ERROR   : [rtsp @ 0x563c4a0c10c0] method DESCRIBE failed: 404 Not Found
2024-02-16 16:57:02.407802172  [2024-02-16 16:57:02] ffmpeg.front_2.record          ERROR   : rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/front_2: Server returned 404 Not Found
2024-02-16 16:57:02.407828576  [2024-02-16 16:57:02] watchdog.front_2               INFO    : Terminating the existing ffmpeg process...
2024-02-16 16:57:02.407850419  [2024-02-16 16:57:02] watchdog.front_2               INFO    : Waiting for ffmpeg to exit gracefully...
2024-02-16 16:57:12.413956553  [2024-02-16 16:57:12] watchdog.front_2               ERROR   : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for front_2.
2024-02-16 16:57:12.414004699  [2024-02-16 16:57:12] watchdog.front_2               ERROR   : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
2024-02-16 16:57:12.414034740  [2024-02-16 16:57:12] ffmpeg.front_2.detect          ERROR   : rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/front_2_sub: Connection timed out
2024-02-16 16:57:12.414060027  [2024-02-16 16:57:12] ffmpeg.front_2.detect          ERROR   : [rtsp @ 0x55c9de819fc0] RTP: PT=60: bad cseq 5f42 expected=f6ed
2024-02-16 16:57:13.572530835  [2024-02-16 16:57:13] frigate.video                  ERROR   : front_2: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
2024-02-16 16:57:13.572577420  [2024-02-16 16:57:13] frigate.video                  ERROR   : front_2: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...
2024-02-16 16:57:22.420641826  [2024-02-16 16:57:22] watchdog.front_2               ERROR   : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for front_2.
2024-02-16 16:57:22.420689378  [2024-02-16 16:57:22] watchdog.front_2               ERROR   : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
2024-02-16 16:57:22.420716227  [2024-02-16 16:57:22] ffmpeg.front_2.detect          ERROR   : [rtsp @ 0x561c5642bfc0] method DESCRIBE failed: 404 Not Found
2024-02-16 16:57:22.420732558  [2024-02-16 16:57:22] ffmpeg.front_2.detect          ERROR   : rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/front_2_sub: Server returned 404 Not Found

So I'm not sure if it's coming from my config or what? I have strong wifi signal on both camera so I don't think this is the issue, unless there is a parameter I need to set on the AP. I use a Unifi U7 Pro

[NickM-27]

rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/front_2_sub: Connection timed out camera is timing out it looks like

[Phantomx2]

yes I saw that, but what does it mean?
Is this because of a wifi issue or is it crashing because of something in my config?

I can see that it's always doing that when it's starting to do a recording (ffmpeg.front_x.record) is that related to having issue to save the file or something?

Thanks!

[NickM-27]

Typically due to the camera having issues and wifi can be a problem as well