I want to configure a local webcam to stream (and possibly record) a live feed open to the internet, and acess it half-world away while traveling, using FOSS only acessing it via Android VLC
This guide was quite comprehensive; however the packages for nginx-rtmp are quite abandoned in arch linux. So I thought maybe WebRTC could be an alternative - the communication itself should be encrypted, which WebRTC seems to do; however, I still can’t figure out if VLC will handle this well
Also, it seems that I might need to self-host a VPN to achieve this? What are my options? Has anyone else done this ?
I’m using Frigate with a Google Coral connected to Home Assistant, it’d send an image and a short video to a Telegram group with my wife whenever it detects a person.
I’m using OpenIPC firmware flashed on a chinese Goke camera and works great. It connects to Frigate using RTMP.
If you have a Home Assistant instance, adding a webcam and accessing it from outside of your home network is quite easy: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/06/23/usb-webcams-and-home-assistant/
Home Assistant is a very useful platform to have around if you have a handful of IoT devices at home.
Setup Tailscale on your machine at home and on your Android device. It’ll provide a virtual encrypted network between your devices.
Not sure what video performance across it will be like, I’m sure there’s a bit of overhead.
Just use wire guard, which is the backbone of tailscale.
Tailscale could rug pull one day or start charging.
Sounds like OP could handle wire guard setup.
My use case is similar. So i use a Pi 5 running motioneye dev 64bit. 3 cams 2 usb webcams (uvc compliant) 1 esp32 cam wifi. Another Pi a 4 this time runs pihole and wireguard vpn. Static ip so all is good. Homarr is my dashboard and i can view from that or the motioneye interface directly.
however the packages for nginx-rtmp are quite abandoned in arch linux.
Maybe you should switch to Debian? I’ve been doing it for a long time that way and playing to VLC without issues. What repositories are you using btw? Official ones at http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html or some 3rd party garbage?
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