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    How do I display an RTSP camera stream?

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      SteveMann
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      Newbie to MagicMirror here.

      I have some RTSP cameras on Frigate in my Home Assistant server. I would like to put one of the cameras on my MagicMirror, but the only module for RTSP cameras is archived 3-years ago.

      Is there an RTSP module that has escaped my search?

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        sdetweil @SteveMann
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        @SteveMann see

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

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

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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

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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
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                      @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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