Generic x86-64 installation
Home Assistant version: 2026.8.2
Hi! First of all, thank you for this great add-on and for all the work you have put into it. HAOS Kiosk Display is a very useful project.
Camera live streams from Home Assistant do not play correctly in the Luakit browser used by HAOS Kiosk Display.
I installed Chromium inside the same HAOS Kiosk container and launched it in the same X/Openbox environment. The exact same cameras work normally in Chromium.
To check whether this was a general H.264 playback issue, I uploaded a test H.264 MP4 file to Home Assistant Media and opened it in Luakit. The video was extremely laggy and only showed a few frames before freezing.
After installing:
normal H.264 MP4 playback in Luakit started working correctly.
However, the camera streams still do not play. They either show a static frame or stop after a few frames.
I also checked:
gst-inspect-1.0 webrtcbin
and got:
No such element or plugin 'webrtcbin'
I also tried enabling WebRTC in Luakit with:
settings.webview.enable_webrtc = true
but Luakit returns:
cannot set unknown webview property 'enable_webrtc'
So I suspect this may be related to missing or disabled WebRTC support in Luakit/WebKitGTK, or some missing GStreamer dependencies.
Since H.264 MP4 playback was fixed by installing gst-libav, but WebRTC camera streams still fail while Chromium works in the same container, what would you recommend checking or installing to get WebRTC/H.264 camera playback working correctly in Luakit?
A similar problem with camera streams not displaying correctly in Luakit was reported here:
#21
Generic x86-64 installation
Home Assistant version: 2026.8.2
Hi! First of all, thank you for this great add-on and for all the work you have put into it. HAOS Kiosk Display is a very useful project.
Camera live streams from Home Assistant do not play correctly in the Luakit browser used by HAOS Kiosk Display.
I installed Chromium inside the same HAOS Kiosk container and launched it in the same X/Openbox environment. The exact same cameras work normally in Chromium.
To check whether this was a general H.264 playback issue, I uploaded a test H.264 MP4 file to Home Assistant Media and opened it in Luakit. The video was extremely laggy and only showed a few frames before freezing.
After installing:
normal H.264 MP4 playback in Luakit started working correctly.
However, the camera streams still do not play. They either show a static frame or stop after a few frames.
I also checked:
and got:
I also tried enabling WebRTC in Luakit with:
but Luakit returns:
So I suspect this may be related to missing or disabled WebRTC support in Luakit/WebKitGTK, or some missing GStreamer dependencies.
Since H.264 MP4 playback was fixed by installing
gst-libav, but WebRTC camera streams still fail while Chromium works in the same container, what would you recommend checking or installing to get WebRTC/H.264 camera playback working correctly in Luakit?A similar problem with camera streams not displaying correctly in Luakit was reported here:
#21