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kaffetorsk / arlo-streamer

Continuous stream for Arlo cameras
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Can this be made more general? #24

Open spikked27 opened 2 months ago

spikked27 commented 2 months ago

Amazing work! I came across this while searching more generally for a way to make battery powered cameras play nice with frigate, my question being, could this tool be made more general with, perhaps, an MQTT input (from home assistant) when the stream goes live instead of pulling that information from the Arlo API? Just a thought, I imagine it would be incredibly useful for a lot of people. Thank you for your hard work!

kaffetorsk commented 1 month ago

Possibly, can you give an example of the architecture you're describing?

spikked27 commented 1 month ago

I'm currently using NestMTX to turn google nest camera streams into straight RTSP streams for Frigate, however, when the stream is turned off Frigate just assumes there's an error and throws FFMPEG errors in the log, would be great to use arlo-streamer in the middle to feed a static image when the stream is off so Frigate is happy, the stream wouldn't even have to be off if arlo-streamer could be the "control" for when a static image is used instead of the main stream.

YpNo commented 1 month ago

Hi, So you want to use arlo-streamer to proxy stream non-Arlo camera ? I think it is out of scope of this project. It is more like asking to NestMTX mainteners to handle a idle stream like we do.

kaffetorsk commented 4 weeks ago

What I can consider is taking the core proxy functionality and extracting it as a seperate repo/library.