If you want to view the script itself before running it, it is available to view here.
#Raspberry pi mpeg 2 install
Now, lets install Node JS and other needed libraries, such as git and coffeescript. Find out your arm version with uname -a command and seeing if the string “arm6” or “arm7” appears. For arm7 systems, like anything Raspberry Pi 3 or newer, we will use Node 12. If you are on an arm6 based system, such as the pi zero, you will need to do just a little extra work to install Node. The easiest way I have found is to use the pre-created scripts to add the proper package links to the apt system for us. (Not because the Node based one gave me issues, just this other one is much more lightweight and easy to install.)įirst of, we need to install Node JS. This is what is used with the helper script. UPDATE: I have stopped using the below server, and instead use rtsp-simple-server, which has ARM builds per-compiled. This is what I run at my own house, so don’t think I’m skimping out for this post ?
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There are a lot of rstp server options out there, I wanted to go with a lightweight one we can just run on the pi itself that is easy to install and run easily. Most security systems expect to connect to a rstp server, instead of listening as a server themselves, so we need a middleman. To start with, we need a place for ffmpeg to connect to for the rtsp connection.
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#Raspberry pi mpeg 2 update
Also, good idea to update the system before continuing. Remember to run sudo raspi-config, change your password and don’t forget to set up wifi, then reboot. That way you can just SSH to the raspberry pi via command line or PuTTY on Windows. (I used raspbian buster for this tutorial) If you aren’t going to connect a display and keyboard to it, make sure to add an empty file named ssh on the root of the boot (SD Card) drive. If you haven’t already, download Raspbian and get it onto a SD Card. Not going to go into too much detail here.
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#Raspberry pi mpeg 2 1080p
A 1080p WiFi camera that has has ONVIF capabilities can be had for less than $50. If you don’t already have a Pi and a webcam or pi camera for the cause, don’t run out to buy them just for this.
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Now, the first thing I am going to do is discourage you. That way we can also hook it into a larger security suite without draining any of its resources, in this case I will use Blue Iris. This will save huge amounts of bandwidth! It also does not require the client to re-encode the stream before saving, distributing the work. Then we will send it over the network via rtsp. With our IP camera, we are going to take it further and encode the video stream locally. Or set up MotionEyeOS and make it into a singular video surveillance system. Sometimes they go a bit further and set the Raspberry PI to stream MJPEG as an IP camera. Other posts I have read on this subject often only use motion to capture detection events locally. (Can also use a raspberry pi camera if you got one!) That may change with the new Raspberry Pi 4, but what to do with all those old ones? Or how about that pile of old webcams? Well this article will help turn all those into a full on security system. Raspberry Pi’s are wonderful little computers, just sometimes they lack the umph to get stuff done.