Auto-reload/retry when server is down

[snoack]

Whenever I have to restart the Frigate server, all my various devices showing camera feeds in Home Assistant using Frigate card get stuck with a failed server connection, and I have to go around, manually refreshing the page / restarting the companion app.

It would be nice if the Frigate card would periodically attempt to reconnect after a failed connection in order to automatically recover from a server down scenario.

[Sarah-Connelli]

Strange, mine does recover, I'm often tweaking things in Frigate and stopping/starting the docker container for Frigate.

So if I stop Frigate, all the frigate-hass-cards then say "Camera unavailable: " on the display, and then when I restart Frigate, all the frigate-hass-card's return back to normal. No refresh needed, nothing.

This is on Chromium, Edge desktop browsers and the latest Home Assistant app on Android, I am using the frigate-hass-card v6.3.3 with latest stable Frigate and HA.

[dermotduffy]

+1, it should automatically recover from both the loss of a camera, and indeed loss of Home Assistant itself. @snoack Can you record a video of what you're seeing?

[snoack]

After some further testing, I can confirm that it only happens on Chrome and the HA companion app on Android (but not on Firefox), and only when using following settings:

live_provider: go2rtc
go2rtc:
  modes:
    - webrtc

In that scenario, the card remains black when restarting the Docker container running Frigate (and go2rtc). If I don't set live_provider or use Firefox then it seems to recover from the lost server connection.