Sending rtsp camera streaming over internet

Hi Dave,
Most likely they do not provide rtsp streams but instead image frames via http. I have a couple of cameras providing the same and in that case you could:

  • use one of the earlier flows above (jpeg_test) that grabs those frames and publishes them to mqtt and then on the client side simply subscribe to the same topic and present them on the dashboard using (as example) the media node as in the example flow
  • convert from http to mp4. That will however load the cpu rather heavily but if you run the server on a RPi3 or 4 you can utlize the GPU that lowers the CPU load significantly

Best image/video quality will with those cameras, I guess, be to avoid converting to mp4. If you are lucky that they do provide rtsp, well then just use one of the later flow samples and modify the settings to fit the url of your camera