Android app stops audioplayback if a picture-entity card is present with video stream

[lodesmets]

Ever since HA introduced webRTC, if I have music playing on my phone, and open the HA companion app, the audio stops playing.
On my dashboard I have a picture-entity card with video stream (doorbell).

But the card doesn't play any audio if I haven't clicked it to open the stream. If I click the picture-entity card and it opens the stream with audio this would be expected, but not when just opening the app.

Home Assistant Android app version(s):
2025.1.2- full

Android version(s):
14

Device model(s):
Samsung A54 5G

Home Assistant version:
2025.1.1 (but issue started before this version)

Last working Home Assistant release (if known):
The issue came when HA introduced webRTC (so versions before 2024.11 worked fine)

Companion App Logs:
homeassistant_companion_log_0-14-2025_10-49-29.txt

[jpelgrom]

Can you try opening the same dashboard in Chrome on your phone, to see if it also pauses audio? That will help us determine if this is an app specific issue or part of the frontend.

[lodesmets]

Hey, In the browser (chrome on android) it doesn't stop the audioplayback when opening the dashboard. But it stops audioplayback when clicking the card (and opening the stream).
This is how I expect it to work

[dshokouhi]

hmm think this may still apply here? home-assistant/frontend#23230

we dont really have much control over the frontend here

[rotarypot]

I have the exact same issue in the same circumstances as @lodesmets , my workaround is using the snapshots entity from the camera since it doesn't have audio.

[jpelgrom]

Going to close this as a duplicate of the mentioned frontend issue. Audio focus is not something the app requests or handles differently here.