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

[BKeyport]

@costascontis oh, sorry, I misunderstood.

[zzricezz]

I’m assuming if i just have 1 stream, it will most likely cause a burn-in issue? any good idea? like transition between a black backgroup ever minute or so for couple of seconds?

Thanks,

[BKeyport]

@zzricezz burn in is mostly a non-issue in modern screens, however, I severely doubt a stream isn’t gonna do anything like that, unless you’re streaming a closet… there’s enough movement on most streams that even things that are locked into place move around (due to encoding bugs, etc)

[dwburger]

I’ve got this module working with my Wyze camera, but the connection drops and the image freezes after a few minutes. Is there a way to automatically reconnect to the camera from within the module? I can do it by stopping and starting MM2 using PM2, but I’d rather not have to do that every few minutes. Thanks for any help or guidance!

[evroom]

Hi,

You can try adding this line to the config:

omxRestart: 1,

Automatically restart the OMX Stream every X hours.
Default: 24 (hours).

Btw. Assuming you use omxplayer. Do not have experience with other players.

localPlayer: 'omxplayer',

But getting rid of the root cause of connection dropping and image freezing after a few minutes seems better time invested.

[evroom]

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

Btw. Assuming you use omxplayer. Do not have experience with other players.

I use omxplayer ‘standalone’, not within MM, but under control of pm2.
When I restart my camera, the omxplayer is connecting to the stream automatically.
No restart of the omxplayer stream needed.
Just FYI.

[dwburger]

@evroom Thanks! I haven’t been able to get OMXplayer to work, only VLC. However, if I can’t get the auto-restart to work with VLC, I’ll see if I can’t get OMXplayer to work.

[BKeyport]

@dwburger I was having a ton of trouble streaming anything on my Pi 4. if you’re on a Pi 4, make sure to install the May 2020 update. Streaming is rock solid now.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/raspbian/updating.md

I will note, I’m also using OMX Player independently from MM - the last releases of RTSPStream broke everything, and I couldn’t bother to get things working again. I wrote a little module I kept private because it’s not configurable to cut the desired space out of the MM workspace.

[sdetweil]

@BKeyport that link is for PI OS… does it apply to raspian buster?

[dwburger]

@BKeyport Yes, I’m using an RPi4. Thanks for the link for updating!