It seems like it could be TinyCam intermittently not responding to the request (or the network request is otherwise failing for some reason). I wonder if that could perhaps exacerbated by multiple Media Tiles from the same TinyCam server all at once.
Have you tried creating a dashboard with just a single Media Tile (from this TinyCam server)? Maybe close your browser completely after creating the sample dashboard and try a fresh test of just the single stream from that TinyCam server at once.
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I just setup a quick TinyCam instance and poked around the webserver and it looks like it has some diagnostic tools on the admin page. I wonder if the diagnostic charts or any of the logs might be any help in this situation:
Perhaps the TinyCam developer could help provide some guidance too?
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James is using a camera software for PC called Blue Iris rather than TinyCam. In Blue Iris, you can define ‘short names’ for cameras and the URLs for accessing those camera streams use the short names.
Another neat feature of Blue Iris that James mentioned earlier in the thread is the ability to combine several cameras together into a single group as shown in these screenshots below. This results in a single Media Tile streaming multiple cameras as a group under one stream.
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Yes, TinyCam supports image snapshots.
There’s some other tips on ways you can optimize the MJPEG stream from TinyCam in the following thread: