yi home and motioneye

[Bodengriller]

I'm desperately trying to integrate my three yi-home cameras into motioneye in order to realize a usable motion detection. The whole thing fails already because the rtsp (high) stream does not arrive reasonably in motioneye. Only fragments are displayed - no matter which setting I try.

Is the camera simply too weakly equipped for this? I have already deactivated all services that are not needed (including snapshot): [IP]/cgi-bin/get_configs.sh?conf=camera:

"SWITCH_ON":"yes",
"SAVE_VIDEO_ON_MOTION":"yes",
"SENSITIVITY":"low",
"AI_HUMAN_DETECTION":"no",
"SOUND_DETECTION":"no",
"SOUND_SENSITIVITY":"80",
"LED":"no",
"ROTATE":"no",
"IR":"no",
"CRUISE":"no",
"MOTION_DETECTION":"no",
"AI_VEHICLE_DETECTION":"no",
"AI_ANIMAL_DETECTION":"no",
"HOMEVER":"8.2.0.0A_202012041528",
"NULL":"NULL"

I've often read here that the snapshot function probably eats a lot of resources and should be disabled if possible if you need more performance. Why is that? As I understand it, the camera only takes a screenshot and makes it available - doesn't sound very complex.

When I open the RTSP stream via VLC on my computer, it strangely works fine. This made me suspect that it was related to motioneye itself. That's why I installed a new motioneye installation on my computer (as Ubuntu VM) -> same problem as with the motioneye installation on my Futro S740 homeserver in the proxmox container.

Same Problem with these three yi-Home-Models:

1. IFUS Y654GT 9.0.36.00_202011101611 y211ga yi-hack-Allwinner-v2 0.2.6
2. 9FUS Y31SAO 8.2.0.0A_202012041528 y20ga yi-hack-Allwinner 0.3.3
3. 9FUS Y31RW6 8.2.0.0A_202012041528 y20ga yi-hack-Allwinner 0.3.3

With which parameters (FPS, resolution, ...) does the RTSP-High-stream stream? (1920x1080; ? FPS)

Right off the bat, it doesn't look like the network is overloaded from the 3 cameras...I couldn't imagine that either. Nevertheless, does anyone know what traffic the RTSP-high-stream causes or needs?

any idea what else I could test?

Thanx

[EDIT] No changes using "RTSP alternative server" or "Disable Cloud"

With "RTSP alternative server" there's no stream available anyway (even via VLC)

[Bodengriller]

I used Ubuntu 22.04 in my proxmox container as well as in my VM. That was the error. Ubuntu 22.04 probably uses a buggy libmicrohttpd-0.9.75 which causes exactly this problem. Rebuilt everything to Ubuntu 20.04 - now it runs without problems. https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues/2623 https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues/2287 Could have saved me a lot of searching and work if I hadn't skipped reading the intro of the manual. Ubuntu 22.04 is currently broken (uses a broken version of libmicrohttpd12 0.9.75-3).

Maybe it will help someone here someday. Sorry - it was stupid of me to think that it could be the yi-hack.

But maybe someone can answer my other questions:

I've often read here that the snapshot function probably eats a lot of resources and should be disabled if possible if you need more performance.
Why is that?

With which parameters (FPS, resolution, ...) does the RTSP-High-stream stream? (1920x1080; ? FPS)

Nevertheless, does anyone know what traffic the RTSP-high-stream causes or needs?

[roleoroleo]

Sorry for the delay. I see you solved it but I'll answer anyway.

Is the camera simply too weakly equipped for this?

The cam should be able to stream hd video without problems.

I've often read here that the snapshot function probably eats a lot of resources and should be disabled if possible if you need > more performance. Why is that? As I understand it, the camera only takes a screenshot and makes it available - doesn't sound very complex.

This is true. The reason is that this feature is not available in the original fw. I added it in the hack And since I don't have access to the hw codec, I grab an iframe from the buffer and I convert it to jpeg with ffmpeg libraries. This operation requires 2-3 MB of memory and the cam runs with very low memory available.

When I open the RTSP stream via VLC on my computer, it strangely works fine. This made me suspect that it was related to motioneye itself.

Is it possibile to configure motioneye with tcp instead of udp?

With which parameters (FPS, resolution, ...) does the RTSP-High-stream stream? (1920x1080; ? FPS)

rtsp 1920x1080 20 fps gov 40

Nevertheless, does anyone know what traffic the RTSP-high-stream causes or needs?

VLC shows about 500 kbit/s

[Bodengriller]

Thank you for clarifying the unanswered questions. In the meantime I'm playing around with Frigate. Motioneye is good but still brings me too many false-positives.

One two last questions: What is your experience with RTSP Stream Low + High enabled - does it work acceptably over time? I would like to use the low-res stream for motion detection, but record in HD.

Wouldn't it be nice to make the streamed FPS adjustable in yi-hack to reduce network-traffic? :)

[roleoroleo]

What is your experience with RTSP Stream Low + High enabled - does it work acceptably over time?

I don't use the cam with a DVR, so I don't know if the stream is stable over a long period. But it should work.

Wouldn't it be nice to make the streamed FPS adjustable in yi-hack to reduce network-traffic? :)

AFAIK it's not possible to change codec parameters.

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