Tap cam looses stream in background mode

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n3wb
Jul 12, 2025
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Australia
Hi.

Have been using TC pro with old android phones for over as year. Bought a tapo c210. Its working in TC, however I discovered that it looses cam feed when you enable background mode for the c210 in TC.

Even though it looses the feed, it still seems to be connected to the c210 and says status OK in the camera settings.

I have found that the Dev doesn't response to anyone, including me, So looking at trouble shooting this. I looked at the logs in TC but dont know what i am looking for.

Here are the errors from the TC logs i think that are relevant

07-15 10:10:46.873 I: ONVIF (23818): ONVIF original stream URL: rtsp:/192.168.1.50:554/stream1
07-15 10:10:48.892 I: OMXClient(23818): IOmx service obtained
07-15 10:10:48.902 W: c (23818): Video decoder "OMX.ffmpeg.h264.decoder" does not support size: 2304x1296. Decoder may fail.

07-15 10:10:53.397 I: BackgroundService(32456): [Background] Service started. Starting 1 camera(s) w/ main-stream.
07-15 10:10:53.418 I: Watchdog(32359): Watchdog registered Background
07-15 10:10:53.452 W: FA (32456): Failed to retrieve Firebase Instance Id
07-15 10:10:53.480 I: ONVIF (32456): ONVIF original stream URL: rtsp:/192.168.1.50:554/stream1
07-15 10:10:53.901 I: f (32456): Home/away for camera "c210" (portsMask:6) = home
07-15 10:10:53.901 I: DB (32456): Home/away updated 1 cameras within 2 msec
07-15 10:10:55.589 I: OMXClient(32456): IOmx service obtained
07-15 10:10:55.593 W: c (32456): Video decoder "OMX.ffmpeg.h264.decoder" does not support size: 2304x1296. Decoder may fail.

07-15 10:10:57.523 I: ONVIF (23818): ONVIF original stream URL: rtsp:/192.168.1.50:554/stream1
07-15 10:10:57.527 W: System (23818): A resource failed to call close.
 
Hi Again. After checking the logs notice the fail "does not support size: 2304x1296. Decoder may fail." So changed it to stream 2 (TC channel 2) and it fixed the issue. I assume stream 2 is a lower res. ?I am not up on all the different streams etc. Hope this might help someone
 
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