Any ideas on how to configure server to use an IP-based camera?

[Gilbert]

I'm running the latest version (May 2015) of GRBLWeb and was wondering if anyone has any experience with the streaming options so that one is able to use and IP-camera instead of a webcam. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

[Andrew Hodel]

You can use VLC and do pretty much anything, the documentation is all over the place.

ffmpeg is good too, and if it's already MJPEG... the "protocol" is pretty simple with Wireshark and "Follow TCP Stream".  With a MJPEG stream you could directly embed it with the html <img> tag or use JS to cause a refresh and stop hangups, hell one can do anything.

You could also use v4l2loopback and write to a /dev/videoN device with any number of video transcoders (vlc, ffmpeg) to use the mjpg streamer that grblweb is using.

If that's all nonsense to you, you could just open another tab with the IP cam's stream.

Andrew

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Gilbert <gilbert...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm running the latest version (May 2015) of GRBLWeb and was wondering if anyone has any experience with the streaming options so that one is able to use and IP-camera instead of a webcam. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

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[Gilbert]

Thanks Andrew, in the mean time I was able to get my hands on a webcam. I'll report back if I decide to try the webcam route. Thank you.

[jpa...@xitit.com]

I had the same question.

But was thinking of having the frame point to the webcam resource.  The work is done by the webcam's server, no need to reinvent the wheel...