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Is it possible to make an IP camera appear on the other end as /dev/videoX with near zero latency? Even with LAN ping times of 200ms of latency with IP cameras, sometimes as much as 1000ms, and can't figure out a good solution.
It amazes me, really, that for as popular as this use case seems to be there isn't a simple, well-packaged way to stream a camera off a pi. I've been trying to get this working lately and nothing works "well". Motion is popular, but is limited to mjpeg rather than h.264. uv4l is closed source and not up to date with current OS versions. None of the various cvlc incantations to do better actually seem to work on my pi…
https://github.com/BreeeZe/rpos
Either way, OBS supports RTSP so you can pull feeds in and surface them as a virtual webcam to the rest of your OS.
Does anyone know if any of these projects capture the h.264 stream encoded inside the webcam? I would be interested in setting up something like the nest paid subscription but on a local server (meaning record 100% of the video and build a nice interface to navigate it. No "detection of movement" kind of thing involved unless for tagging).
It amazes me, really, that for as popular as this use case seems to be there isn't a simple, well-packaged way to stream a camera off a pi. I've been trying to get this working lately and nothing works "well". Motion is popular, but is limited to mjpeg rather than h.264. uv4l is closed source and not up to date with current OS versions. None of the various cvlc incantations to do better actually seem to work on my pi…
Like I have this 10 line bash script, that I want it to run for a few years, with no maintenance, that don’t get corrupted from power loss, or lock up from memory leaks, that auto restarts when necessary, but not bring down network either.
And it requires 10+ years of experience in managing and developing on GNU/Linux, a few notable certificates maybe, a bit of embedded background being a plus, to do it right enough, in about 0.25-1.0 man-month.
I’ve tried something like that on Alpine Linux, and it didn’t work always. Mostly due to proficiency issues on me, but it definitely was unnecessarily hard.
It amazes me, really, that for as popular as this use case seems to be there isn't a simple, well-packaged way to stream a camera off a pi. I've been trying to get this working lately and nothing works "well". Motion is popular, but is limited to mjpeg rather than h.264. uv4l is closed source and not up to date with current OS versions. None of the various cvlc incantations to do better actually seem to work on my pi…
Both rpos and piipcam serve h.264 RTSP streams that you can pull into OBS and turn into a virtual webcam.
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I highly reccomend Motion, check it out if you haven't. I've ripped out and replaced subpar proprietary vendor crap with it. (keep the cameras depending on model, ditch the included DVR systems) [1] https://motion-project.github.io/
Motion is great, but most (all?) consumer IP cameras and DVRs/NVRs are Swiss cheese security wise, they routinely phone home or make connections with servers in China, some even contain hardcoded passwords etc. so that the only way to use them reliably would involve a firewall only accepting connections from trusted sources while preventing the cameras subnet to send anything to the outside world. What we need is som…
720p or 1080p wireless/wired/PoE IPCamera with FCC-certification has been on the market for a few years, at the price range of 30ish dollars, you can buy IPCamera modules for about $10 from vendors(mainly in China) and reprogram with your firmware as well. RPI-based camera is great to learn stuff, but to make a product-like devices, there are too many to choose on the market already, cheap and easy and most likely mo…
It amazes me, really, that for as popular as this use case seems to be there isn't a simple, well-packaged way to stream a camera off a pi. I've been trying to get this working lately and nothing works "well". Motion is popular, but is limited to mjpeg rather than h.264. uv4l is closed source and not up to date with current OS versions. None of the various cvlc incantations to do better actually seem to work on my pi…
Is it that there is no way to “just” run a small custom built daemon script on a Linux box, not just in terms of camera apps but in general? Like I have this 10 line bash script, that I want it to run for a few years, with no maintenance, that don’t get corrupted from power loss, or lock up from memory leaks, that auto restarts when necessary, but not bring down network either. And it requires 10+ years of experience…
Is it possible to make an IP camera appear on the other end as /dev/videoX with near zero latency? Even with LAN ping times of 200ms of latency with IP cameras, sometimes as much as 1000ms, and can't figure out a good solution.