Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
[MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras
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@dwburger It took several seconds, but entering the correct rtsp URL got my camera’s video stream onto the RPi4 screen (full-screen). I’ll follow it a while to see how stable it is.
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OK…I’ve got it displaying my Wyze rtsp live stream on the screen while MM2 is running. The live stream seems to start and stop so I’ll work on that. Also, I need to position it in the correct place (lower-right corner).
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@dwburger Looks like you’re on the way. Good luck to you!
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@BKeyport Yes, making good progress thanks to those of you who’ve helped. I’m having a difficult time with placing the window. I can get it in the upper-left of the screen using --win “0 0 600 300”, but I can’t seem to manipulate those coordinates to get the window to the lower-right. Can you point me to information that will help me understand this?
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Here’s how to do that.
The coordinates are Top Left Bottom Right, assuming the monitor is in NORMAL mode (no rotation)
So, if your monitor is 1920×1080. say, that’s your bottom and right coordinate to get it into the bottom right corner.
top would be 1920 - WindowHeight
left would be 1080 - WindowWidthusing your example window size, and my example monitor size it would be, “1320 780 1920 1080”
If you’d like to make the window bigger or smaller, you can refer to https://bneijt.nl/pr/resolution-scale-calculator/ to compute different sizes that won’t distort the image.
Note: if you rotate your monitor, the normal/no rotation resolution is used for the calculations. so, in addition to adding “rotate” to the string, you’ll need to recalculate the sides to match.
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@BKeyport Yep, that did it…thanks! Your explanation was so clear and concise (and simple). I don’t understand why I didn’t find a similar explanation on the web somewhere. I appreciate the help very much!
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Please pardon the rant…I got started down this path today since I was having stability issues with vlc inside the MMM-RTSPStream module. Now that I’ve gotten my Wyze RTSP stream working outside MM2 using omxplayer (with lots of expert help), I’m still having stability issues. The stream lasts for a few seconds to a few minutes and then vanishes. When I look at the RPi4 console, omxplayer has stopped giving me the “have a nice day” message. That’s cute and all, but It’s starting to annoy me. One advantage to the use of omxplayer is that I can easily automate restarting it. But, that doesn’t really address what seems to be a core issue with my Wyze camera or wifi ecosystem or ??? I don’t know enough about IP cams or streaming video or video players to know whether this is technically difficult to do or not, but it sure seems like all this should work way better than it does. Just sayin’.
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@dwburger You’re right of course. It should be a ton easier. But, we’re at the mercy of people who know how to program this ((#%#% to understand what the average user wants, and that’s usually barking up the tree at a cat that’s long gone…
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Maybe I’m just a glutton for punishment, but I’d really like to get this to work. I went online looking for other RTSP players and found ContaCam (https://www.contaware.com/contacam.html). It’s Windows donateware and getting my Wyze RTSP stream up and viewing was simple. It’s been going for several hours. During the time the stream has been running on ContaCam I also accessed the stream with omxplayer on my Rpi4 and VLC on my Windows 10 machine. Both the omxplayer and VLC player stopped displaying live video after only a short time; the live stream on ContaCam is still going strong. Just wondering…are there settings in the ContaCam set-up that might be helpful in stabilizing the livestream video on the omxplayer? It seems apparent that the Wyze camera is working and my wifi network is OK, the weak link seems to be the player. Any suggestions on how to proceed down this path will be much appreciated.
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I thought I would put a close to my efforts here with the following:
I believe I’ve found a solution. I decided to use ffmpeg from the RPi4 command line to save an image from the RTSP stream every 5 minutes. Every 5 minutes the new image overwrites the previous one, thus using the same filename. Then, I’m using mykle1’s MMM-EyeCandy module to display that sole image that’s housed in the /pix folder for that module. So, after several hours, ffmpeg continues to run (although it throws lots of “missed packet” errors), but it doesn’t abort. I’ll put ffmpeg under pm2 control next. Now, using MMM-EyeCandy, I’m getting a new image from my Wyze camera in the lower-right corner of my MM2 every 5 minutes. This is all I needed to stay reasonably up-to-date with what’s happening in front of that camera.
