Strange error when viewing live streaming from "Home" app

[redeemer666]

Strange error when viewing live streaming from "Home" app

[tsightler]

This is not really a bug or even an error. Ring uses a websocket based control channel with their own protocol for the WebRTC connection. The code as currently written logs "UNKNOWN MESSAGE" and then the raw message if it receives any message with a method type that it doesn't know about, but this doesn't cause any actual problem as it is unrelated to the video stream itself, which is handled completely by WebRTC.

The "fix" would just be an additional case statement the "timed_metadata" method type that returned without logging the message to the console as my guess is that it is just coordinate data for the birds eye view thus ring-client-api wouldn't do anything with it anyway. This is almost certainly not related to any video/audio stuttering as those are handled directly by the WebRTC stream.

As it appears you are running on an RPi, more likely it is overrunning the UDP buffers as those devices struggle to keep up with the bursty bitrates output from newer Ring cameras. You can try increasing rmem_max/rmem_default on your host and see if that helps. Also, ring-client-api currently has no support for dynamic bitrate, so you get the maximum bitrate at all times which means it has high expectations of your network equipment.