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This section contains the details necessary to connect to your ONVIF-compatible camera. A typical URL might look like, http://192.168.1.100:80/onvif/device_service. If your camera does not support ONVIF, or if you’re trying to connect directly to the RTSP stream, this is NOT the screen you should be using.
You have options available to you that control elements of the camera connection and display of the video. When you’re first trying to connect to your camera you should leave all of the default values in place.
Transport — Toggle between TCP and UDP. Most cameras support RTSP over TCP. TCP is the default value and that is what you should use unless you are certain that your camera does not support TCP.
Keep Alive — Some cameras require Streamie to send an RTSP keep-alive message periodically. Other cameras will fail if they receive a keep-alive message. RTSP support is the Wild West. This feature is disabled by default. Enable it only if you know that your camera requires keep-alive support.
Rotate — Rotate the displayed image of the camera by 0, 90, 180 or 270 degrees.
Flip — Flip the displayed image of the camera horizontally, vertically or both.
Aspect — By default, Streamie will display a video stream based off its natural aspect ratio. If you want to force the display into a different aspect ratio, you can use this option to choose 16:9, 4:3 or 1:1.
Gravity — If you adjust the display aspect ratio of a camera, you may also want to adjust the Gravity which can either be Fill, Fit or Stretch.
Recovery — Camera connections can fail for many reasons and sometimes those failures cause video decoder issues. This option allows you to control how vigorously Streamie will restart stream decoding. For sporadic failures, the Instant recovery option is fine. If you encounter frequent decoding issues, you may choose the Gradual setting which may improve overall system stability.
Delay — Network jitter and other factors can make video display not as smoothly as you may prefer. Streamie does not normally buffer video. Use this option to add a short delay which will buffer and smooth out the display of video.
Audio — Optionally disable audio entirely with this option.
Overlay — Define a Module with content that you want to display on top of a video stream and then
These are details about the camera that are provided to Streamie via ONVIF. These details can include manufacturer information, camera model name, serial number, firmware version and so on.
Navigate to the Functions section of Streamie to create your own Function. Afterwards, you can choose that function in this section to associate it with this camera. When you’re streaming this camera, you can tap on the camera and this function will be accessible to you in the contextual popup menu.
Navigate to the Settings => Integrations screen in Streamie to set up your AI Classifiers. Once configured, you can associate that AI with this camera by choosing it in this section. Once you’re streaming this camera, you can then select any available AI Classifiers using the contextual popup menu and each video frame will be routed to the classifier.
If your ONVIF camera supports motion events, you can customize actions in Streamie based on those events. Streamie learns which events your cameras support by monitoring the cameras while you stream them. To get started, stream your camera in Streamie and cause those motion events to occur while the camera is streaming. Afterwards, edit the camera (returning to this ONVIF configuration screen) and use the “Add Action” button to add a custom action to a discovered event.
ONVIF cameras (including NVRs) often support more than one stream. Each stream typically varies the video quality. Select the stream that you want Streamie to use for this camera.
If your ONVIF compatible camera supports panning, tilting or zooming, those controls will appear in this section. You can adjust the speed at which Streamie will perform those movements.
Once you’ve finished editing your camera, use Save & Close to complete your changes.
Created: 7 months ago
Updated: 4 days ago
Author: Curtis Jones
Topics: How To
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