homebridge-camera-ui VS mediamtx

https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui maybe?

You need a plug in called Camera.UI. It’s great, I use it with my Wyze cams.

You can use virtually any IP camera you want thanks to HomeBridge. I am currently using a Yi cam that I hacked then I’m using HomeBridge and camera-ui.ip plug-in for it. Not the most straightforward, but the cheapest, and setting up HomeBridge unlocks so many possibilities with smart wifi things that are not HomeKit native.

camera.ui

I use https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui with my RLC-523WA and it also supports Homekit Secure Video.

Now that this is a Homebridge Raspberry Pi, I can't find any plugins allowing me to use the camera. Only RTSP plugins, like camera.ui (https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui)...

Recently I came across a new home bridge plug-in for rtsp cameras which enables HKSV support. Here it is https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui

Homebridge-camera-ui is very well maintained and works well. I’d use it over homebridgecamera-ffmpeg for now, unfortunately the author of homebridge-camera-ffmpeg has had some difficulties lately and hasn’t had much time to update it.

homebridge-camera-ui

I started a discussion on the MediaMTX Github repo, where you can find more information on my problem: https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx/discussions/2787

For my apartment, I run rtsp-simple-server[1] on my home server and use Raspberry Pis with generic USB webcams running ffmpeg to stream the audio/video to the RTSP server. Then I run camera.ui[2] separately for a nicer interface on top of all the cameras, HomeKit integration, etc.

The only downside hardware-wise is I don't get any indoor IR night vision with these, which some of the nicer "smart home" account-locked ones do.

It's honestly not too bad to set up if you run [1] and [2] in Docker. I've done disaster recovery scenarios of my home infra where I straight up disconnect the modem's uplink and everything works without any issues.

[1] - https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx

[2] - https://github.com/seydx/camera.ui

So you want the server to make an HTTP call to an endpoint to deliver when streams change their status?

https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx/issues/1462

Looks like there might be a work around.

How low delay do you need? I'd recommend MediaMTX + VLC if you just want a live feed. motionEye could work too but it's very demanding on both the server and clients.

Have MediaMTX configured with a path for publishing:

so here's my next problem, to run ffmpeg from inline in mediamtx you have to build a new docker image that combines them. Aler9 gave instructions for the Dockerfile here: https://github.com/aler9/mediamtx/discussions/278

The one Docteh brought up is a good one https://github.com/aler9/mediamtx, I just set it up and all I had to do was change one line in the yml config file in the rtsp section to get that to work.