How to Stream with IP camera on ubuntu?

Hi Daniel,

I think you first have to ask yourself what you want to achieve:

  • Do you want your Node-RED flow to capture the images from the camera, and send the images to your dashboard afterwards. The advantage is that you can do extra things in your flow with the images (e.g. store them on disc, face recognition...). The disadvantage is that this will eat extra cpu and memory. In this link -see "usage" section - I have described two simple ways to achieve this with having to install extra software.
  • If you just want to show the images in your dashboard (without having the images travelling through your flow), you only have to add a dashboard template node in your flow. That template node will get images directly from your IP camera. I have described how to do that in this link (section "get mjpeg stream directly from IP camera).

Good luck!
Bart

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