Very long delay

[twrecked]

Very long delay

[TheDK]

Other IP cameras are being picked up directly (so their stream is directly played in your browser / app), while Arlo sends the stream to its cloud where it is probably transcoded and sent back to you. The delay is accumulated depending on wifi strength, internet uplink, load on Arlo Cloud, etc.

In my experience 10s is pretty long, for me it's usually more like 3-5s - but real-time is just not possible with Arlo, for that you would need a local IP cam.

[pinkfloydFR]

ah ok didn't know that.

The strange thing is, like you said, that in the arlo apps the delay is pretty short ( ie 2/3 second ), it's only very long on HA.

[TheDK]

If that's the case there might be additional transcoding going on in HA, see here:
https://github.com/twrecked/hass-aarlo#other-streaming

Maybe try around a bit what works best / all in your setup...

[twrecked]

One more thing to add: we are using the web interface to make this work, I think the Arlo app gets access to a better interface with more features and faster responses so you can't do a direct comparison. My delays are similar to @TheDK , more in the 5 second range.

[pinkfloydFR]

Added user agent, will test if it's better...

aarlo:
username: !secret arlo_username
password: !secret arlo_password
tfa_source: imap
tfa_type: email
tfa_host: imap.gmail.com
tfa_username: !secret tfa_username
tfa_password: !secret tfa_password
user_agent: linux

[twrecked]

Don't forgot to add direct to image_view.

[pinkfloydFR]

like i have done ?

type: custom:aarlo-glance
entity: camera.aarlo_arlo_entree
name: front door
image_view: direct
image_top: signal,battery|status
image_bottom: onoff,motion,library,stream,sound|snapshot
image_click: stream
library_sizes: 3,4,2

[twrecked]

That looks good.

And thanks for the WebRTC link, I have a single FosCam camera and I'm going to see if that will speed up the access to that. Not sure I can get that to work with Arlo because, as you may have noticed, the stream URL changes every time.

[platini76]

I have only two camera that stream ok.
the other 2 won't stream... someone can help me?