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?

  • @ktr41nOP
    1•1 year ago

    After a bit more research it seems that the Pi is just a poor choice for this project. I’m already somewhat committed, so I imagine I’ll just stick with my hacky Motion solution until something better comes along.

    Thanks again, everyone!

  • @Lordjohn68English
    1•1 year ago

    I use motioneye. I can stream to any tv website etc 2 cameras usb webcams on pi4

  • antsu
    1•1 year ago

    You can try using MotionEyeOS. It’s a purpose-built OS with a nice interface around Motion. In your case, you can set it to “Fast network camera” mode (disables motion detection) and enable the RTSP stream. One nice thing about this OS is that it’s quite resilient to power going down, so it’s safer to deploy in “computer-hostile” environments.

    • @ktr41nOP
      1•1 year ago

      Turns out a reolink ip cam was cheaper and worked much better, so I ended up just doing that