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Anyone having issues with Google Video Doorbell (Wired, 2nd Gen) Device page locking up under Safari? It does this under Mac OS and iOS.

If I switch to Chrome in Mac OS, it works fine. It also loads fine using a Samsung browser on my Android smartphone.

There are times when I can access the Device page from Safari, but that's rare. I've not been able to determine any pattern / trigger event that makes it possible pattern. At one point, I thought hitting Refresh was the key. Nope.

BTW, thank you for the Google SDM API App. I was concerned that I would not be able to integrate any functionality given some earlier searches. Now I see that even video has some measure of support (I see a clip in the Device page of Chrome and my Samsung browser).

So, ideas about the Apple challenges?

And, should I be able to simply enable HomeKit to get the basic doorbell event or do I need to use Homebridge?

EDIT: I have registered my wife's iPhone as a device and successfully pushed the Doorbell press notification. That's an approach that has me engaging the Apple ecosystem device by device rather than once via HomeKit.

Thanks.

EDIT: I just took a look at my Hubitat dashboard under Chrome. The Device(Doorbell)/Template(Attribute)/Option(Attribute=Image) shows the short clip around the doorbell button push event. Safari's rendering of that tile is blank.

Bottom line, I always thought this was/is probably a Safari issue, but I thought someone here might be using it and have some insight. And, FWIW, I have the latest OS installed on all Apple devices.

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I don't use Apple, but I suspect that is your issue. The latest Google Doorbells do a little GIF clip for a short video. Android would show the video clip but Garmin wearables up to a very recent release also wouldn't display this, and it would be blank. One of the recent Garmin updates fixed that for them.

If you use Chrome on Apple (if you can do that), does that work? That would isolate it to the browser.

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I see the video clip using Chrome on Mac OS.
I see the video clip using Chrome on Android
I see the video clip using Samsung on Android.

Safari on Mac OS locks up trying to display the Google Video Doorbell device page.
Safari on iOS locks up trying to display the Google Video Doorbell device page.

I think this pretty much confirms it is a Safari related issue.

Thanks.

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Just to try something out, what if you turn off all Security (MacOS) and Privacy & Security (iOS) options in Safari settings. Does it then work?