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Look at outdoor cameras targeted at the commercial market, e.g. from Hikvision and similar brands. Solar is probably out of the question due to power requiremen
by bleepblorp 6y ago
Look at outdoor cameras targeted at the commercial market, e.g. from Hikvision and similar brands. Solar is probably out of the question due to power requirements, but if you can run one Ethernet cable, there's a lot of cameras available that run from PoE and stream over RTSP, which can be proxied to YouTube (or AWS, etc) without much trouble.
Cost will be considerably higher than for IoT residential junk, however.
- aivisol 6y agoHikvision cameras are good, however they encode video in their own proprietary format (at least when I last checked) so you will have difficulties streaming them to anything that is not their make.
- pilsetnieks 6y agoThey use ordinary h264, the wonky encoding is the proprietary storage container format. For streaming you can just use bog standard RTSP.
- aivisol 6y agoInteresting. I am no way an expert in video encoding, but is there a way to get it streamed to the browser? I have a bunch of hikvisions but so far I am using it either through their Android app, or an ancient Firefox plugin.
- tk75x 6y agoIf it provides an RTSP stream, you should be able to just log into it via a browser, either using the ip directly or putting rtsp:// in front. I'm using Amcrest cameras at home, seems like a lot of models work similarly.
- cameron_b 6y agoI've got Hikvision cameras that I use with OrchidVMS I can pull out the camera RTSP stream with a direct URL like: rtsp://[cameraIP]/Streaming/Channels/101?transportmode=unicast&profile=Profile_1 which will open directly in VLC with a login to the camera I've used some cameras and streaming setups to pull in the video stream directly, Samsung ones did this quite well.
- zelly 6y agoI've used ffmpeg to convert from that format. If your CPU is fast enough it could probably handle re-encoding just in time for streaming (there are cli flags to do that).
- aivisol 6y agoYeah, I have done that as well, but so far could find a way to live stream it
- J_tt 6y agoI worked on a project powering Hikvision cameras over solar and a big battery, I don't know the specs of the panel but I know it can be done. It's using IPTimelapse to grab photos and generate time-lapses (however we've found the software to be buggy, and we're gonna move to ffmpeg for time-lapses and probably a small script to grab photos). The website is fully staticly generated which I was happy with. See: https://cmcameras.net.au https://cmcameras.net.au
- brk 6y agoI wouldn't support Hikvision, but there are a number of good options from Axis, Hanwha, Vivotek, and others. They are all generally 7W or less, so solar compatible in most locations. Look for cameras rated IP66 or IP67 and you should have something that will stand up in typical outdoor locations.
- penagwin 6y agoHow do people feel about ubiquiti cameras? Just curious.