Thanks for the additional details and sharing the full example. I think it’s likely not a problem for most people because the impact is fairly low… likely for a few reasons.
- When switching to another dashboard (without media), the streaming stops
- Some people keep their streams on a child dashboard and just have image snapshots or navigation buttons on their main dashboards
- Most people are streaming from cameras on their LAN, so there’s not really a functional impact
- In your case, it sounds like the concern is load on your Blue Iris server (see the last point)
- For people who keep their dashboards displayed (eg. on a tablet), they usually expect the streams to be immediately accessible
- For systems like Blue Iris, there’s a bunch of URL parameters you can use or alternative approaches you can take (eg. image snapshots)
That being said, it sounds like you have some sort of reliability issues that are causing more of a headache. You could use the ‘autorefresh’ feature of the Media Tiles to have the media streams attempt to autorestart themselves periodically… but then you’ll probably be back to your core issue of wanting the streams to stop when the browser loses visibility. 