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Generating RTSP stream from USB Webcam
(lemmy.world)
Hey everyone!
So I have a chicken coop and wanted to be able to see the inside of it to make sure predators don't get in at night, etc.
I installed my Pi3 and this webcam into the coop -
I am currently using Motion with motion detection turned off to get a simple stream of jpgs. Its not great.
I have a number of security cameras that I capture video from using ffmpeg to save their RTSP stream. Ideally I would like to run an RTSP server on the Pi and interact with its stream in the same way (I also look at them via HomeAssistant).
I've been beating my head against the wall with MediaMTX / ffmpeg (and its current lack of ffserver) for a bit now. Is there a smarter way to do this?
Piggybacking on this comment, but i never realized until I started keeping chickens that meat birds get so disproportionately huge that you can't allow them to roost / have to have a ramp out of their coop. If they jump, they'll blow out their legs when they land and just...die. They're literally bred to be incompatible with life, as no one really needs them to live long anyway.