Hi folks, It is time for me to build a new video surveillance system from scratch. I have bought an usb SSD disc for my Raspberry Pi 4, and I would like to build this system based on the nodes from @kevinGodell (who had excellent testers like @SuperNinja , @krambriw , @wb666greene and many other fol…

[image] wb666greene: re-inventing this particular wheel. Hi @wb666greene , Well in fact I know that you are right... Damn you! But it is near the top of my bucket list, so I can't easily remove it :slight_smile: [image] wb666greene: clarify how to install and use Kevin's magnificent wo…

The 1st thing we have to do is figure out how what type of video/audio streams are available. Whenever you get a chance to get to the command line, run ffprobe on your input. Be sure to use quotes around the input if it has special characters in it. Change the input url to whatever your cam's docs r…

[image] kevinGodell: The 1st thing we have to do is figure out how what type of video/audio streams are available That is indeed a good one!!! It are all rather old camera's, so I don't have high hopes. But I am going to buy new ones, as soon as I have a decent setup in Node-RED running. B…

Since you are still shopping, I will give a little recommendation of products that worked good for me so far. I recently added an external drive to my pi 4 for a place to put my 24/7 recordings. It was tricky to find a good external enclosure that had its own separate power supply and could also be…

I concur about Amcrest IP cams, another good source for Cameras is "Urban Security Group" ( https://www.cctv.supplies/ ). They sell direct or on Amazon (the selection is larger direct) but they have a 90 day no questions asked money back guarantee which I can verify that they honor as they refunded…

Hi mister @kevinGodell , I only had 2 hours available yesterday to play with your nodes, but I'm very impressed ... Nice work!!

[image] kevinGodell: The 1st thing we have to do is figure out how what type of video/audio streams are available. Hey Kevin, I have one Hikvision cam, so going to test that one now. Your ffprobe command gives me following Video information (not Audio): Metadata: title : Me…

In the camera's gui, I would set the i frame interval to the lowest settings that it allows. Since we will be stream copying, that setting will have a direct affect on the segment duration. Shorter segments is usually better for live streaming. For example, if your fps is set to 20 and the i frame i…

Splendid Noob level info. Just what I needed, to get started step by step, and gain understanding... Will get back to you later on. It is my little boy's birthday today. And he has planned a lot of activities :wink:

[image] kevinGodell: if your fps is set to 20 and the i frame is set to 40, then you will have segments with a duration approximately 2 seconds long As you can see in the screenshot above about my camera configuration, I have 20 fps and an I-frame interval of 50. So I expect every segment to…

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