Show IP camera in Magic Mirror

[drx1984]

Hello everybody,
can someone help me to display my “Reolink” IP camera on the MagicMirror?
Have already tried a couple of modules but without success.

• MMM-iFrame
• MMM-RTSPStream

What worked with the module “MMM-iFarme”, if I insert the “rtsp-stream” link from Reolink in the config, and then start MagicMirror, MagicMirror and the VLC player start separately with the stream.

Could someone show me an example config?

[BKeyport]

RTSPStream is broken and won’t be supported anymore. Do you know if the camera is using h.264?

If so, you could use OMXPlayer directly, bypassing MM, like I do. If it’s H.265, It can be handled by VLC or FFMPeg, but I don’t know how that would work.

[drx1984]

@BKeyport yes it is a h.264, it is a Reolink IP camera RLC-410-5MP.
I cannot install an OMXPlayer on RaspianOS because the system runs on a Proxmox server.
Is there another way to just show a screenshot of the IP camera?

[Cr4z33]

@drx1984 try with MMM-FreeboxTV?

[drx1984]

@Cr4z33 said in Show IP camera in Magic Mirror:

MMM-FreeboxTV

you mean the module MMM-FreeBox-Monitor?
Doesn’t work either.

[BKeyport]

@drx1984 Ahh! I originally had one of those in use. Using OMXPlayer directly is likely the best option.

What I’ve done is block out a section of my screen using a custom module that’s not published, then, using a bash script, I launch OMX Player with a command line like:

omxplayer --avdict rtsp_transport:tcp --live --orientation [rotation] --win "[X1 Y1 X2 Y2]" rtsp://[URL]

“Rotation” is the rotation of your monitor, 0 (Normal), 90 (right portrait), 180 (upside down), 270 (left portrait)
“X1” is the left X position NOT CONSIDERING ROTATION.
“X2” is the right X position NOT CONSIDERING ROTATION.
“Y1” is the top Y position NOT CONSIDERING ROTATION.
“Y2” is the bottom Y position NOT CONSIDERING ROTATION.

omxplayer will then launch on top of the mirror screen.

Example:

omxplayer --avdict rtsp_transport:tcp --live --orientation 90 --win "1500 325 1915 1075" rtsp://U:P@A/2/h265/major

My screen is rotated right portrait, so I rotate OMX to match. (90)
The window I need cut out is 700x415 pixels, my resolution is 1080x1920. You’ll notice I have it 5px off the edge to assure I see everything, and I’ve got it in the upper right corner of my display. my camera I use now instead of the Reolink is using that URL, even though it puts out a H264 stream at the moment (I’m looking for an option to go to H265 as h264 uses flash for display)

[jasondreher]

I am using iFrame. But also using BlueIris to stream the IP camera to a http site, makes things much easier, plus I can get motion from BlueIris.

		{
		module: 'MMM-iFrame',
		position: 'bottom_left',	// This can be any of the regions.
		config: {
			// See 'Configuration options' for more information.
				url: ["http://192.XXX.X.XXX:XXXX/mjpg/CAM1/video.mjpg"],
				updateInterval: 0.5 * 60 * 1000, // rotate URLs every 30 seconds
				width: "1200px", // Optional. Default: 100%
				height: "600px" //Optional. Default: 100px
			}
		},

[BKeyport]

I now have MMM-FreeboxTV working displaying my IP Camera.

Here’s the trick:

Edit streamsConfig.json and strip out everything but channel 2.

Channel 2 should be:

"2": "rtsp://[url]"

Then: in config.js

{
	module: 'MMM-FreeboxTV',
	position: 'top_right',
	config: {
		debug: false,
		autoReplay: true,
		fullscreen: false,
		width: [to taste],
		height: [to taste],
		onStart: 2,
		onStartDelay: 5000,
		streams: "streamsConfig.json"
	}
},

PS: Because of my module size, I needed to still use my unlisted block module. :(

[drx1984]

@BKeyport do you mean that
Unfortunately I don’t see a stream either

[drx1984]

@jasondreher Unfortunately, iframe does not work with Reolink cameras.