[MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras

BKeyport

Believe it or not, I found that OMX is by far the most stable of setups in my use case. Odd, I know.

I do restart my Mirror daily, however.

goprojojo

@bkeyport said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:

Believe it or not, I found that OMX is by far the most stable of setups in my use case. Odd, I know.

I do restart my Mirror daily, however.

Are you using a script to auto restart and could you share?

Cr4z33

@goprojojo I guess he just scheduled the reboot command into cron (Google for it). ;)

BKeyport

@goprojojo

Cron.

#      m       h        dom    mon     dow     command
       15      2        *      *       *       sudo reboot

Why 2:15 you might ask? 2 AM daily my camera reboots and usually corrupts the display - takes about 10 minutes for it to restart where it don’t, and 5 more minutes to make sure it’s clear of it’s reboot and upgrade routines.

I recommend https://crontab.guru/ to help you build cron tasks.

p4lsec

Does anyone know if it’s possible to use moduleOffset from within a single stream (stream3)? I couldn’t get it to work.

I have three streams going. The first two are side-by-side, but the third is centered under them. I would like the third to be left-justified. Any ideas?

jngo

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jngo

@evroom
I am a newbie with Magic Mirror and Raspberry world so I would really appreciate if you could provide me a step-by-step instruction.
I have the same challenge like yours: Although I set my stream video window to “bottom_right”, it appears to be in the between of “bottom_center” and “bottom_right”. In another word, it is completely located at the weirdest position: a little bit above the “bottom_center”, too much “left” from the “bottom_right” of the screen, etc…

I follow your post to change the parameter of “moduleOffset” value but as you already stated, the moduleOffset did not work. The stream video window is still way off from where I want it to be. I am not familiar with the “.css” yet so if you are so kind, please point me to how I can make change to it?

So, if possible, could you please kindly provide me a step-by-step instruction on how to align the stream windows with the “bottom_right” where it lines-up with the “current_weather” module (top-right)

Thank you

evroom

@jngo
Can you post the moduleWidth, moduleHeight and the width and height from the stream?

And if you see it in the pm2 logs, this info:

Starting stream stream1 with args: [
    "--avdict",
    "rtsp_transport:tcp",
    "--win",
    "738, 63, 1090, 305",

evroom

Just to make it clear, I am not using any module anymore that uses omxplayer.
For me MMM-RTSPStream stopped to work for my install and use a while ago (reason unknown) and for MMM-Dreambox I do not have place on my screen (but a nice module nevertheless).
I have kept my MagicMirror pretty simple and static, just 5 modules and a video stream from my outdoor IP-camera.
No fancy things with rotating, voice commands, gesture commands, etc.
Everything that really matters in one view.

As an alternative for MMM-RTSPStream, I just use pm2 for my video stream.
The omxplayer is an overlay in all uses anyway, so I just ‘overlay’ it on top of the MM modules.
I left space on the left side of the MagicMirror by only using top and bottom positions.
pm2 controls the processes, like with MM (I enabled it using the same commands for MM, except that I used axis iso mm).

That being said, I can try activating MMM-RTSPStream again to be able support a bit.

pi@MagicPi:~ $ pwd
/home/pi
pi@MagicPi:~ $ cat axis.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo "Starting Axis stream ..."

# No rotation
#omxplayer --avdict rtsp_transport:tcp --live --video_queue 4 --fps 30 --win "0 625 590 957" rtsp://axisviewer:Trosknurt12@192.168.178.56/axis-media/media.amp?resolution=640x360

# Rotate to match custom.css rotation
# 640x360 == --win 'x1 y1 x2 y2' == "600 300 960 940" == x2 - x1 & y2 - y1
omxplayer --avdict rtsp_transport:tcp --orientation 270 --live --video_queue 4 --fps 30 --win "600 300 960 940" rtsp://user:password@192.168.178.56/axis-media/media.amp?resolution=640x360
pi@MagicPi:~ $ pm2 list
┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬───────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬────────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid   │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem        │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼─────────┼──────┼───────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼────────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ axis     │ 1  │ 2.5.0   │ fork │ 11127 │ online │ 1066    │ 2h     │ 0%  │ 220.0 KB   │ pi   │ disabled │
│ mm       │ 0  │ 2.5.0   │ fork │ 4658  │ online │ 41      │ 14D    │ 0%  │ 12.0 KB    │ pi   │ disabled │

jngo

@evroom
I keep pretty much all modules as default (just like yours): calendar, event, weather now, forecast, news feed, and this stream video from my camera. That’s all I need.
My screen is a 22" Dell monitor and I do not rotate it so it’s horizontal. But because the stream video window appears in the middle of the whole thing, the layout of the modules on the screen looks so bad so I hope I could find the way to aligned it (bottom-right) with the right edge of my weather now (which is at top-right)

My info is below

Starting stream stream1 with args: [
“–avdict”,
“rtsp_transport:tcp”,
“–win”,
“1268, 511, 1620, 753”,
“–live”,
“–video _queue”,

My stream video window size is 640 x 360 px