ESP32-CAM Home Assistant shows Picture Card on Chrome laptop browser, but not mobile app or other laptop browsers

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Ross Satchell asked 3 years ago

Hi,
I have set up the ESP32-CAM following the guide here:
https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-cam-video-streaming-web-server-camera-home-assistant/
I can see the video streaming server and then started working on the Home Assistant part.
I added the Picture Card (via my laptop: Chrome browser) and was able to see the camera image.
https://imgur.com/a/V4vdFER

Then I opened the Home Assistant Android app, but the picture is now broken (see image below)
https://imgur.com/a/cOORBqW

I also tried with Chrome browser in Android and had the same broken image. I tried clearing the cache in Chrome (Android), with no change.

Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong?

Question Tags: Home Assistant

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Sara Santos Staff answered 3 years ago

Hi Ross.
The ESP32-CAM can only stream to one client at a time.
So, you can just watch the video streaming on one device at a time.
You must close the web browser window on the other device before you can access it on the other.
I hope this answers your question.
Regards,
Sara

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Ross Satchell answered 3 years ago

Thanks for your reply Sara. I was thinking this was likely the case after testing it on several different devices.