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moritzmhmk / homebridge-camera-rpi

raspberry pi camera plugin for homebridge
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Support for remote viewing #48

Closed robgjansen closed 5 years ago

robgjansen commented 5 years ago

I'm running the standalone installation as a service on my rpi zero w. It works great while I connect over wifi, but when I disable wifi and try to connect over my wireless phone connection I can't see the stream or any still images. (I am using a HomePod to allow remote access to my devices.)

Is this a known limitation? Is there any planned support for remote viewing? Thank you!

galliangg commented 5 years ago

The remote viewing works for me, both on my phone and Apple Watch.

I have an Apple TV for the remote access

robgjansen commented 5 years ago

@galliangg interesting! Can you confirm that you have the standalone version installed? Thanks!

galliangg commented 5 years ago

I’m using this image

https://github.com/moritzmhmk/buildroot-camera-rpi/releases/download/v0.0.2/camera-rpi-v0.0.2.img.zip.zip

On a rpi zero w

I’m watching the camera now away from my house

robgjansen commented 5 years ago

OK, so my guess is that the image contains the full version and not the standalone version.

As I mentioned, I installed the standalone version. Here are the steps I followed: http://www.breaknormal.com/2019-02-20-diy-apple-homekit-camera-with-raspberry-pi

I'm still wondering if there is any planned support for remote viewing when using the standalone version? Thank you!

moritzmhmk commented 5 years ago

The image uses the standalone version. The “non-standalone” version is not a “full” version. It is the same code designed for use as a homebridge plugin.

The image works fine for me. Remote viewing works with macOS and iOS.

Is there anything special about your home network that might cause remote viewing to fail? What kind of device do you use as the home hub? Edit: just read that you use a HomePod- should work just fine, but I only tried AppleTV 4K and iPad yet.

robgjansen commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the clarification!

Yeah, I think my HomePod should work fine. I am able to toggle all of my homekit light switches remotely - those are on the same wifi network with the same HomePod.

I have this set up on a raspberry pi zero w, but I don't see how that would affect remote viewing.

I guess a reasonable next step would be for me to try the image version that you released and see if that works. If it does, then I guess that points to some issue in my manual setup (as mentioned, outlined here).