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Kelly Goerbig

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Dec 3, 2019, 6:27:14 PM12/3/19
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I'm looking at this cam on banggood. Has both WiFi and ethernet along with onvif support, and details list that rtsp is supported too. It's listed on ispyconnect as well. I'd like to know if anyone has it loaded as a rtsp network stream in motioneye?

Bigtexun Tex

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Dec 3, 2019, 9:27:04 PM12/3/19
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I'm just an old systems engineer that has been working with network cameras for around 33 years, but my experience is pretty consistent with all of the IP camera systems I've used...  Nearly all of them are simply flakey.  They "work", but they are not stable.  So whatever you use that has any brains in it, make sure you can detect when it is hung or crashed, and be able to have a cron job or a watchdog script that can reboot it.  For my motion eye network, I'm using power over ethernet, and my POE switch (old cisco I bought on ebay for $65) allows me to power cycle any port.  I use expect scripts to do that work, once my watchdog script determines a remote device is down.  POE runs at 48v, so you can get POE converters to drop that to 12 or 5v easily, and they seem reliable.  But smart cameras tend to crash, even my motioneyeos cameras are unstable. 

I'm actually thinking that I should switch to a reliable linux distro that has an internal watchdog, and install motioneye on top of that.  Motioneye is burning through flash cards so fast that I think I'm going to switch to just using my pi network for streaming, and put the motion detection and disk writes on my video hub, which is a legit server with 20 cores and a proper filesystem.

I use plex for my wife's video and music library, and we have a lifetime plex pass, so I'm already dropping my surveillance video on plex that allows me to view my footage on anything that can run the plex app, so that means it is on our iphones, laptops, desktops and tablets...  So with plex providing my cloud services, and my server doing the motion layer, and a reliable OS running on my pi network with no flash writes, I can probably achieve stability finally.  Plex is just an app on my big linux server, so I can run motioneye on that to handle the security details of the streaming camera network, and manage the poe reboots as needed.

The point being, I'm not feeling good about a cheap chinese IP camera solution.  I'm a beta tester for Annke, and I've tried all of the other cameras (both at home and in my day job where I run an IOT lab for the big ISP's like AT&T) and I'm not impressed with any of the affordable ip camera systems.  They are all crap...  But like I said I'm the old guy with a lot of experience with this stuff...


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On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 5:27 PM Kelly Goerbig <kgoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking at this cam on banggood. Has both WiFi and ethernet along with onvif support, and details list that rtsp is supported too. It's listed on ispyconnect as well. I'd like to know if anyone has it loaded as a rtsp network stream in motioneye?

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Sander Devrieze

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Dec 4, 2019, 1:35:12 AM12/4/19
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As an alternative, it might be an option to use an old smartphone (even one with a broken screen or worn out battery) and install compatible IP webcam software on it.

Note that I must say I have no experience with that. It also could be good idea to find a way to remove the battery and invest in a good power adapter for safety.

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