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    How do I display an RTSP camera stream?

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      sdetweil @SteveMann
      last edited by

      @SteveMann see

      https://github.com/evroom/MMM-MPlayer

      a search on rtsp in the 3rd party list linked above
      returned 4 choices

      Sam

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        SteveMann
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        Thanks for the info. Perhaps I was using the wrong search term. I was looking for RTSP here:
        https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror/wiki/3rd-party-modules

        Is there a better place to search for Modules?

        My home office has no window facing the front of my house and I had been using a tablet running a browser to watch the stream, but MagicMirror is shaping up to be a better solution.
        Is this another rabbit hole? (Home Assistant was the first). I am already planning my next MM location…

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          BKeyport Module Developer @SteveMann
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          @SteveMann RTSP isn’t directly compatible with MagicMirror. The only solution I ever found to work, and what I’ve stuck with, is load up an old Pi 4 with MotionEyeOS - and use that to convert over to web, then use something like MMM-EmbedURL to show the stream provided by MotionEye.

          The "E" in "Javascript" stands for "Easy"

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            sdetweil @SteveMann
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            @SteveMann in the header here

            IMG_0803.png

            Sam

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              SteveMann @BKeyport
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              @BKeyport said in How do I display an RTSP camera stream?:

              I’ve stuck with, is load up an old Pi 4 with MotionEyeOS

              Thanks for the tip, but I don’t see how MotionEye would serve my cameras RTSP stream?

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                BKeyport Module Developer @SteveMann
                last edited by BKeyport

                @SteveMann MotionEyeOS will take in the RTSP stream and push out a web compatible stream. At that point, you can take MMM-Embed URL and show the stream. I use the older non-supported MotionEyeOS because the newer versions of MotionEye don’t want to work reliably yet in the way I want.

                My motion eye settings - note, I have the low setting in use to save the Pi4 from working too hard:
                a30e3633-316d-4654-902f-7da58a9a4024-image.png

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                the embed URL is http://192.168.X.X/picture/1/frame/

                		{
                			module: "MMM-EmbedURL",
                			position: "top_left",
                			classes: "camera1",
                			config: {
                				updateInterval: 0,
                				animationSpeed: 0, 
                				appendTimestamp: false,
                				attibutes: [],
                				embed: [
                					"http://192.168.X.X/picture/1/frame/"
                				],
                			},
                		},
                

                The "E" in "Javascript" stands for "Easy"

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                  SteveMann @BKeyport
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                  @BKeyport
                  I always thought that MotionEyeOS was a DVR for webcams.
                  Thanks for the feedback. I know what I will be doing tonight.

                  Today I’ve been experimenting with mplayer and VLC on the Pi (not on MagicMirror), and no matter what I do the stream freezes after a few minutes. I know that the camera stream is still streaming because I see it on Frigate on a separate PC.

                  Could it be as simple as the Pi3 running out of resources?

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                    BKeyport Module Developer @SteveMann
                    last edited by

                    @SteveMann Pi3 is likely being choked to death with that. It’s hard on the Pi4. If I could get it to run the way I wanted on a Pi 5, I’d upgrade to that myself.

                    The "E" in "Javascript" stands for "Easy"

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                      SteveMann @BKeyport
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                      @BKeyport said in How do I display an RTSP camera stream?:

                      MotionEyeOS will take in the RTSP stream and push out a web compatible stream.

                      I wanted to try MotionEyeOS, but I can’t find anything recent. The git was archived five years ago and the only binary that I could find was for the Pi2. Is there a supported version somewhere that I’ve missed?

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                        BKeyport Module Developer @SteveMann
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                        @SteveMann That’s the rough part - the original author abandoned the project - and they’re rebuilding…

                        https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneyeos/releases - use the pi image there to get started - will work on everything up to Pi 4. Does not work on Pi 5.

                        The "E" in "Javascript" stands for "Easy"

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