Octoprint IP Camera

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How to use Octoprint with an IP camera that has an RTSP stream available

Optional: For Wyze cam only

Install Dafang Hacks on the Wyze Cam.

Once running and all is functional, continue. Set video bitrate to 1500, VBR, 30fps.

Installation

If OctoPrint is running on a Raspberry Pi (3B minimum):

ssh pi@<raspberry_ip>
sudo apt update
sudo apt install vlc

VLC will be used to transcode the rtsp stream to a http stream which OctoPrint can use as streaming URL

nano http_stream.sh

paste the following line:

cvlc -I dummy rtsp://ip_of_yourcam --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mjpg,quality=3,fps=5,acodec=none,width=1280,height=720}:standard{access=http{mime=multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=7b3cc56e5f51db803f790dad720ed50a},mux=mpjpeg,dst=:8888/videostream.cgi}" 2>/dev/null

Change the ip_of_yourcam to match the full rtsp url from your camera

CTRL+x to save

chmod +x http_stream.sh
./http_stream.sh

Now you should be able to open your browser:

http://<raspberryip>:8888/videostream.cgi

If it works, you can use this url in OctoPrint for the Stream URL

For the snapshot URL use the stills url from your camera

Change your user/pass and ip to match your setup Click advanced options and uncheck Validate SSL on snapshot URL (if applicable)

As this process is cpu intensive you will need to play around with the quality=x,fps=x (fps = frames per second) options in the cvlc command. These settings work for me, but as I wanted better quality I have this process running on a more powerful device.

We definititely need a plugin for that....

UPDATE: Half a year later, a solution was made. https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server is what I'm currently using, and it works great, no problems yet.

UPDATE: Half a year later, a solution was made. https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server is what I'm currently using, and it works great, no problems yet.

Can you share your settings for this server ?

@GitHubEmploy I also would appreciate if you could share your settings. I have it outputting my RTSP stream on my Reolink E1 Pro to my RPi, but I would like to stream that out to my network as a mp4 or something readable by OctoPrint.

Hi, guys!

I solved my problem in a simple way, after a lot of research, I entered this post with this smart solution and very easy to execute! Before running the .BAT it is necessary to have VLC installed on your computer, then just replace your rtsp:// link inside the BAT and that's it!

:: The following line is neccessary if you need an ability to restart the streams with this batch file
:: Kill all existing streams (the command actually suspends ALL the vlc processes):
taskkill /f /im "vlc.exe"

:: Run two instances of VLC. These would transcode MP4 rtsp-stream to Motion JPEG http-stream:
start vlc -vvv -Idummy rtsp://login:[email protected]/streaming/channels/2/preview --sout #transcode{vcodec=MJPG,venc=ffmpeg{strict=1},fps=10,width=640,height=360}:standard{access=http{mime=multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=--7b3cc56e5f51db803f790dad720ed50a},mux=mpjpeg,dst=:9911/}
start vlc -vvv -Idummy rtsp://login:[email protected]/streaming/channels/2/preview --sout #transcode{vcodec=MJPG,venc=ffmpeg{strict=1},fps=10,width=640,height=360}:standard{access=http{mime=multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=--7b3cc56e5f51db803f790dad720ed50a},mux=mpjpeg,dst=:9912/}

:: In order to execute VLC with `vlc` as in exapmle above, you have to add corresponding value to the PATH variable.
:: Otherwise you have to use full path e.g `"C:\Program Files\VLC\vlc.exe"`.

:: Such rtsp-stream uri as rtsp://login:[email protected]/streaming/channels/2/preview is specific for Hikvision cameras.

:: Access the http-streams like that:
:: For the first camera: http://127.0.0.1:9911 
:: For the the second camera: http://127.0.0.1:9912 
:: For external access change `127.0.0.1` to the address of the server (or PC) you are running VLC on.
:: Your server's Ports you are using for streaming (9911 and 9912 from current example) must be open for external access.

by @JonesTwink/cctv-startup.bat

UPDATE: Half a year later, a solution was made. https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server is what I'm currently using, and it works great, no problems yet.

Hi,

can you please give us some hints how you integrated this with octorprint.

That you be very fine
Frank

UPDATE: Half a year later, a solution was made. https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server is what I'm currently using, and it works great, no problems yet.

Hi,

can you please give us some hints how you integrated this with octorprint.

That you be very fine Frank

I am also interested in how @bastel-123 was able to get this working with Octoprint.

Hi! I'm start rtsp-simple-server localy on ubuntu server that connected to printer, so I have access to HTPP stream from rtsp-simple-server in my browser, but Octo didnt saw this stream ...

For me I need to use the following stream URL:

/usr/bin/vlc -vvv --intf=dummy --no-audio rtsp://username:password@CAMERAIP:CAMERAPORT/STREAM --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mjpg,venc=ffmpeg{strict=-2,threads=1},scale=1.0,acodec=none}:standard{access=http{mime=multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=--7b3cc56e5f51db803f790dad720ed50a},mux=mpjpeg,dst=:10001}" --network-caching=50 --sout-mux-caching=50 --file-caching=50 --live-caching=50

I put it in the following service code:

[Unit]
Description=rtsp2mjpeg
After=network.target

[Service]
User=pi
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vlc -vvv --intf=dummy --no-audio rtsp://username:password@CAMERAIP:CAMERAPORT/STREAM --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mjpg,venc=ffmpeg{strict=-2,threads=1},scale=1.0,acodec=none}:standard{access=http{mime=multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=--7b3cc56e5f51db803f790dad720ed50a},mux=mpjpeg,dst=:10001}" --network-caching=50 --sout-mux-caching=50 --file-caching=50 --live-caching=50

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

After that, you put the url in OctoPrint:

NOTE: I installed the following. No Idea you will need to...

sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev

Credits to:https://github.com/Tom-Hirschberger/vlc-rtsp2mjpeg-wrapper