motioneye VS MJPG-streamer

motioneyeos is fantastic, but last i checked it wasn't being maintained any more… since you're already using ubuntu, the project is available without the full os distro: motionEye.

If your laptop has a webcam you can install motioneye to turn it into a surveillance camera https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye.

Motion OS has unfortunately stopped but MotionEye itself is still on-going (last update was a month ago to two yaml files).

2 handle CCTV via MotionEye (https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye) using some cheapy Wansview cameras (inside and out...originally to keep an eye on a new dog while we were working upstairs). 1 handles the UI of MotionEye, and is also used for various ad-hoc processes (e.g. SpotDL, Samba etc) where having an always-on machine is handy.

Well that's exactly the thing. Atm I am using motionEYE, but I have 3 streams that have to run at full 2K resolution in order to get a clear jpeg. That is quite intensive for the cpu it runs on, so I was trying to find another option that uses the least amout of resources :)

you could use motioneye as your backend. It does not have an api per se, but does allow for webhooks and custom commands on motion detection. You would also need to run either a bridge or run the hacks to get feeds for motioneye.

The solution is simple, cut them out of the picture. Wyze's software is always the weakest link of their products and can easily be replaced with software of your own with motioneye for recording. These folks bad mouthing you for being pissed about this should be ashamed of themselves for behaving in such an immature manor to someone who has a legitimate complaint. Just because you love the 2fa koolaid, doesnt mean everyone else does. Also, protip, centralized password or 2fa managers are just a centralized point of failure and makes compromising you all the more easier.

Now once you have RTSP running on the camera you are able to take the video and store it somewhere else. You don't specifically need a NAS- you can run a software interface that is designed to play back and view camera interface feeds- like BlueIris, https://blueirissoftware.com/ MotionEye https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye or even directly view the video with VLC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEZnU0PRb0o

mjpg-streamer uses MMAL to access the Raspberry Pi Camera data, but that's not implemented on ARM 64-bit Linux.

cd ~ sudo apt-get install cmake libjpeg62-turbo-dev:armhf libjpeg62-turbo-dev imagemagick ffmpeg libv4l-dev cmake git clone https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer.git cd mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. make sudo make install

I need to stream all three of them to a Windows computer, so the maximum bandwidth is about 100mbit. I have tried "motion", but the performance is abysmal. I get not more that one frame per second and the latency is 3s. I used https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer with one camera. Its super fluid with a latency of maybe 200ms, and full 30fps. But the stream takes 60mbit/s bandwidth so it is impossible to use all three cameras. I tried changing the jpg quality but mjpg-streamer crashes.

I'm using mjpg-streamer to stream the video, and I'm trying to use mjpeg-relay on a separate powerful machine so that more than one person or thing can view the video feed.

MJPEG Install: https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer (Minor differences with Octoprint instructions)

For streaming I would use mjpg-streamer. It has quite low latency if you don't set the resolution, image quality and frame rate too high as that requires a lot of bandwidth.