ustreamer VS motion

FYI until recently this was known as 'rtsp-simple-server', but it outgrew simply being a RTSP server so it was rebranded. It is commonly used in the 3D printing community for serving webcams attached to printers along with ustreamer (https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer).

uStreamer is far superior to the mjpgstreamer utility that nearly everyone uses. It supports the Pi's OMX media encoder, so you can get reasonable quality with low CPU usage.

I've been in the same situation as you and have been looking into https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer as an alternative to mpjg-streamer under Raspian Bullseye with the unicam driver and the Media Controller API framework.

Maybe look at https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer

I've done work before where we stream USB cameras via mjpg using https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer

Granted this project looks like a lot more streamlined.

pikvm is open source as well: https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm

In fact, TinyPilot is based on ustreamer, that is developed by Maxim Devaem, the pikvm creator: https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer

I was reading about the TinyPilot rPI-based KVM-over-IP project which essentially uses a UVC adapter to provide video for KVM over IP. It uses ustreamer, a no-nonsense way to stream such devices.

We used https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion for crude version of that in our office closet datacenter.

It just detected movement, sent an email with video file attached and a link to stream.

No face detect AI but this is ancient software, and minimum effort to set up

MotionEyeOS

I had a similar setup to see what my pet hedgehog was getting up to at night and I used motion to do motion detection on the stream and save videos when it happened. I think you can also set a script to run whenever motion is detected. Might be worth looking into.

You might consider Motion. It's reliable and uses little resources. It comes with a browser UI.

Yeah, I'm doing something similar, but am currently using motion for transmitting the video. It's pretty "high-level" and so I haven't found the need to look into how it works too much, but it is open source if you'd like to check out how it works. There were some other ways I tried to transmit the video, but eventually stuck with using motion because I found that there was not much delay (which was necessary for smooth driving).

MotionEyeOS

Motion if you want simple MJPEG solution.

It is indeed annoying. My old jerry-rigged set up (Motion Project, old Android phone, and a 10 y.o. netbook) was able to filter blowing trees, clouds, birds, etc way better than my Wyzecam V3 can. As they say, if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself, but until we get RTSP we can't do it ourselves.