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[angrycatmeowmeow]

A consumer (frigate in this case) causes the stream to drop to 640x360. When no consumers the ffprobe shows 1080p, spin up Frigate and it drops to 640. The stream doesn't last long and eventually leads to broken pipe errors. Rebooting the feeder brings the cam back up. I am pointing frigate at the go2rtc stream from HA.

#FRIGATE OFF
angrycat@angrycat-XPS-13-9300:~$    ffprobe -rtsp_transport tcp rtsp://192.168.50.205:8554/petlibro_plaf203_sanitized 2>&1 | grep Video
  Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Baseline), yuvj420p(pc, bt709, progressive), 1920x1080, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn
#FRIGATE ON
angrycat@angrycat-XPS-13-9300:~$ curl -s http://192.168.50.205:1984/api/log | grep -i petlibro | tail -10
ffprobe -rtsp_transport tcp rtsp://192.168.50.205:8554/petlibro_plaf203_sanitized 2>&1 | grep Video
{"level":"warn","time":1790789007873,"message":"petlibro: startup attempt 1 failed: petlibro: probe timeout"}
{"level":"warn","time":1790789054601,"message":"petlibro: startup attempt 1 failed: petlibro: probe timeout"}
{"level":"warn","time":1790789585302,"message":"petlibro: startup attempt 1 failed: petlibro: probe timeout"}
{"level":"warn","time":1790789831121,"message":"petlibro: startup attempt 1 failed: petlibro: probe timeout"}
  Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Baseline), yuvj420p(pc, bt709, progressive), 640x360, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn

2026-09-30 17:23:31.949217 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.controller]: device online serial=sanitized
2026-09-30 17:23:31.956866 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.state]: feeder state transition previous=DISCONNECTED current=CONNECTED reason=feeder MQTT connected
2026-09-30 17:23:31.958497 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.state]: feeder state transition previous=CONNECTED current=RECONCILING reason=connect
2026-09-30 17:23:32.989726 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.state]: feeder state API recovered
2026-09-30 17:23:33.067137 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.state]: feeder state transition previous=RECONCILING current=READY reason=reconciliation complete
2026-09-30 17:23:33.072916 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.state]: feeder reconciliation complete core_rev=fnv64:31358cf12e799932
13:24:14.601 WRN petlibro: startup attempt 1 failed: petlibro: probe timeout
13:27:12.764 WRN github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc/internal/rtsp/rtsp.go:262 > error="unsupported method: GET"
13:27:13.836 WRN github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc/internal/rtsp/rtsp.go:262 > error="unsupported method: GET"
13:27:18.868 WRN github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc/internal/rtsp/rtsp.go:262 > error="unsupported method: GET"
13:33:05.302 WRN petlibro: startup attempt 1 failed: petlibro: probe timeout
2026-09-30 17:34:59.934393 WARNING plaf203_sanitized: [WARNING] [petlibro.camera]: camera runtime status is stale; publishing offline
2026-09-30 17:35:35.490327 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.controller]: device offline serial=sanitized
2026-09-30 17:35:35.492835 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.state]: feeder state transition previous=READY current=DISCONNECTED reason=feeder MQTT heartbeat lost
2026-09-30 17:35:35.494695 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.controller]: device online serial=sanitized
2026-09-30 17:35:35.499181 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.state]: feeder state transition previous=DISCONNECTED current=CONNECTED reason=feeder MQTT connected
2026-09-30 17:35:35.500230 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.state]: feeder state transition previous=CONNECTED current=RECONCILING reason=connect
2026-09-30 17:35:35.534682 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.state]: feeder state API recovered
2026-09-30 17:35:35.598927 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.state]: feeder state transition previous=RECONCILING current=READY reason=reconciliation complete
2026-09-30 17:35:35.604253 INFO plaf203_sanitized: [INFO] [petlibro.state]: feeder reconciliation complete core_rev=fnv64:31358cf12e799932
13:37:11.121 WRN petlibro: startup attempt 1 failed: petlibro: probe timeout
2026-09-30 17:43:04.293194 WARNING plaf203_sanitized: [WARNING] [petlibro.mqtt]: unknown or unhandled MQTT command channel=event command=ERROR_EVENT
2026-09-30 18:05:57.668940 WARNING plaf203_sanitized: [WARNING] [petlibro.mqtt]: unknown or unhandled MQTT command channel=event command=ERROR_EVENT
14:30:13.348 WRN petlibro: startup attempt 1 failed: petlibro: probe timeout
14:30:19.160 WRN petlibro: startup attempt 2 failed: petlibro: probe timeout
14:30:25.490 WRN petlibro: startup attempt 3 failed: petlibro: probe timeout
14:30:26.991 WRN [rtsp] error="streams: petlibro: probe timeout" stream=petlibro_plaf203_sanitized
14:30:32.300 WRN petlibro: startup attempt 1 failed: petlibro: probe timeout
14:30:37.436 WRN petlibro: startup attempt 2 failed: petlibro: LOGIN_RESP timeout
14:30:43.772 WRN petlibro: startup attempt 3 failed: petlibro: probe timeout
15:34:40.684 WRN github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc/internal/rtsp/rtsp.go:262 > error="write tcp 192.168.50.205:8554->192.168.50.2:37374: write: broken pipe"

Frigate config:

go2rtc:
  streams:
    catfood:
      - rtsp://192.168.50.205:8554/petlibro_plaf203_sanitized

cameras:
  catfood:
    ffmpeg:
      input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
      hwaccel_args: preset-intel-qsv-h264
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/catfood
          roles:
            - detect
            - record
    detect:
      width: 1920
      height: 1080
      fps: 5

    record:
      enabled: true
      alerts:
        pre_capture: 10
        post_capture: 30
        retain:
          days: 14
      detections:
        pre_capture: 10
        post_capture: 30
        retain:
          days: 14
      continuous:
        days: 0
      motion:
        days: 10

    objects:
      track:
        - cat
        - dog
detect:
  enabled: true
  fps: 5