Feature Request: Automatically Rotate Camera Player to Horizontal orientation

[rwjack]

Has anyone noticed how annoying it is when individual cameras are tapped, and they're still in the vertical orientation? Literally nobody is going to look at the cameras in that orientation. The camera player should automatically rotate the screen to a horizontal orientation, when a camera is tapped, and of course, this can be a per camera toggle.

[bgoncal]

You mean when it is in full screen or tapped but still inside the frontend UI?

[rwjack]

hmm, I don't really get what you're asking, but I can try to further explain what I'm talking about.

I have a UI View with a Panel Layout, that has a couple cameras, all stacked.

cards:
  - square: false
    columns: 1
    type: grid
    cards:
      - show_state: false
        show_name: true
        camera_view: live
        type: picture-entity
        entity: camera.a
        name: A
      - show_state: false
        show_name: true
        camera_view: live
        type: picture-entity
        entity: camera.b
        name: B
      - show_state: false
        show_name: true
        camera_view: live
        type: picture-entity
        entity: camera.c
        name: C

And when I tap one of those, it would just make sense to somehow open it in the horizontal view, same view as when you fullscreen a YouTube video - and the goal is having that rotation happen automatically. Why? Because nobody is going to be looking at a camera vertically (when tapped I mean). So when all cameras are shown in the View, then having a small vertical overview of them all makes sense, but when tapped, fullscreen and rotate that sucker.

[bgoncal]

Yeah, so thats what I meant when I said "frontend UI". I think frontend could just put the camera in full screen directly but not necessarily in landscape, I think it should behave as any video in full screen, if it enters full screen in portrait it stays in portrait until the device is rotated.
This is a good topic for the "Moth of WTH", you can request this to the frontend team: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/month-of-what-the-heck/61