How do I display an RTSP camera stream?

BKeyport

@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.

sdetweil

@SteveMann in the header here

SteveMann

@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?

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:

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/"
				],
			},
		},

SteveMann

@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?

BKeyport

@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.

SteveMann

@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?

BKeyport

@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.

hrmax23

Also looking to stream a camera feed from Frigate. It looks like MMM-FreeboxTV would have worked but can’t find that anywhere.

BKeyport

@hrmax23 I have a feeling that was a module by an author that has pulled all his work and left the community over hurt feelings.

Thanks to poorly thought out everything (outside of our control), we’re in a kind of hole and have to patch together a solution - just the way it is.