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roleoroleo / yi-hack-MStar

Custom firmware for Yi 1080p camera based on MStar platform
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Is there an Android app? #386

Closed giejay closed 4 months ago

giejay commented 3 years ago

Thanks for this awesome "hack"! I'm planning on building an Android app because the Yi Home app does not allow me to retrieve motion videos very easily (afaik) from sd-card/ftp server. Only when paying for the cloud.

Tinycam is a really good app but also does not show me a nice timeline of videos stored on my ftp server (only locally recorded videos using Tinycam).

So, what I would like is an Android app which can play the RTSP stream including audio, and show a timeline of all captured videos on my ftp server below the video. Any idea if this is already built by someone before I start spending time on this?

roleoroleo commented 2 years ago

I've never seen an app like this. I'm using Tinycam and Onvifer.

giejay commented 2 years ago

I started building this but the main problem I'm facing is the instability of the stream when audio is included. It crashes or a lot of artifacts appear.

I'm wondering how the native app can work so smoothly including audio, I'm guessing it uses a different streaming method/codec?

Are there supported cameras with a bit more CPU/memory?

roleoroleo commented 2 years ago

I'm wondering how the native app can work so smoothly including audio, I'm guessing it uses a different streaming method/codec?

Different method, yes. The codec is the same: h264.

Are there supported cameras with a bit more CPU/memory?

Supported by this hack, no.

giejay commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to offload the streaming process to a server (raspberry pi) like it's done in this project for Wyze cams: https://github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge?

roleoroleo commented 2 years ago

I don't know. But it's not normal this behavior. My stream is not unstable.

vin-w commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to offload the streaming process to a server (raspberry pi) like it's done in this project for Wyze cams: https://github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge?

I have thought of this idea too. The problem now I have is in home assistant, there are multiple user viewing the stream. It will crash the camera.

Running a rtsp proxy before the camera stream would help. But my experience with yi-cam x rtsp-simple-server was not good. Will try another streaming proxy later

Rocket200 commented 2 years ago

i use ipcamviewer on ios,android and fireos instarvision with generiv h.264 profil for yi cam

iocamviewer on fireos :) the best now 6 Cams (5xyi,1xeufy) what audio is the best ? pcm ?

eufy work without internet !! but only can view the rtsp stream with sound!

roleoroleo commented 2 years ago

If you mean for the quality, the best is pcm. But in general alaw or ulaw are more compatible and generate less traffic.

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