Endless discovery loop when starting ring-mqtt (docker)

[happydutch]

I have a clean docker install, with the following config.json:

{
"mqtt_url": "mqtt://localhost:1883",
"mqtt_options": "",
"livestream_user": "",
"livestream_pass": "",
"disarm_code": "xxxx",
"enable_cameras": true,
"snapshot_mode": "motion",
"enable_modes": false,
"enable_panic": false,
"hass_topic": "homeassistant/status",
"ring_topic": "ring",
"location_ids": [ "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx" ] (redacted)
}

For some reason it keeps looping - it does discovery and then it seems to restart. I have tried debug output but nothing shows that indicates why it would restart.

All devices are online

2024-09-13T09:00:02.960Z ring-mqtt Starting Device Disovery...
2024-09-13T09:00:02.960Z ring-mqtt
2024-09-13T09:00:02.960Z ring-mqtt New location: ZZZ (xxxx)
2024-09-13T09:00:06.281Z ring-mqtt   New device: ZZZ Alarm (xxxx)
2024-09-13T09:00:06.281Z ring-mqtt               security-panel
... etc ...
2024-09-13T09:00:06.620Z ring-mqtt [ZZZ Garage] Unable to retrieve most recent motion event for this camera
2024-09-13T09:00:06.633Z ring-mqtt [Woonkamer] Unable to retrieve most recent motion event for this camera
2024-09-13T09:00:07.307Z ring-mqtt [ZZZ Base Station] Account has access to set volume on base station, enabling volume control
2024-09-13T09:00:07.324Z ring-mqtt Successfully saved updated state file: /data/ring-state.json
-------------------------------------------------------
ring-mqtt.js version: 5.7.1
Node version v20.15.1
NPM version 10.8.0
git version 2.45.2
-------------------------------------------------------
Running ring-mqtt...
2024-09-13T09:00:12.150Z ring-mqtt Detected runmode: docker
2024-09-13T09:00:12.161Z ring-mqtt Configuration file: /data/config.json

... and this repeats endlessly ...

[happydutch]

Never mind, "enable_cameras": true, is the issue. When I set it to false, things start to work. Why it quietly restarts is a puzzle to me.

[tsightler]

It looks like you have some cameras but perhaps not a Ring subscription (code was unable to retrieve historical events for either camera)? It's possible that there is some bug with this setup as I do not test this configuration, although definitely hard to guess with no error message.

[happydutch]

I checked all cameras - some are in "motion detection off" and do not show an image in the app (privacy mode). Maybe that's what it is?

[tsightler]

It's possible, although I wouldn't expect that to be an issue and I'm surprised I've never had any similar report and most of this logic is largely unchanged for quite a while. The biggest issue here is lack of an actual error to show why the code exited. That makes it pretty much end up just being guesses.

[happydutch]

Yeah debug didn't give me anything to work with Sadly. Thanks for the quick replies and thanks for developing this nice project!