Media and Thermostats

[josh]

@Alex_Burrows

If I want the camera as a live stream do I enable autorefresh or leave it off?

If you’re using an MJPEG stream, then it’s a live stream and the Autorefresh option is not required. That being said, some people still keep autorefresh on, but at an extended duration - for example every 30 minutes or even every few hours - just to make sure the stream refreshes itself in case the stream dies.

[Aren_Navarro]

on my chrome browser on my pc the cameras are working but for some odd reason the cameras aren’t showing up on my tablet that’s running fully kiosk browser. Not sure what happened but it was working on the weekend.

I have Wyze cameras running on Tinycam pro thats constantly on thru Nvidia Shield. So i’m not sure what the issue is.

I did the fix on my chrome browser on my PC and chrome on my android tablet worked but for some reason it isn’t showing on Fully Kiosk Browser

[josh]

Can you share some more details about your setup? Maybe share an example URL that you’re using for your media tile?

I would also try accessing that same URL directly from the browser on your tablet (eg. Silk on Amazon Fire) to make sure that the tablet can access those media resources.

[Iram_Chavira]

Hi @josh is it possible to add a Nest camera and Ubiquiti camera to Sharptools?

Thanks in advance

[James]

@Iram_Chavira , welcome to the community. See the post below for how to add Nest camera to the dashboard.

Nest Cam and Nest Hello Experimental Support

Today’s release includes experimental support for displaying public feeds from Nest Cam cameras and Nest Hello video doorbells in Media Tiles! [Nest%20Cam] In order for this feature to work, you’ll need to share your camera publicly. Once you’ve enabled the Share Publicly option for your Nest Cam, you can copy the link and use it in a SharpTools Media Tile: [image] Also included in this release are a few bug fixes and enhancements: Devices with the deprecated ‘Garage Door Control’ capab…

What Ubiquiti cameras do you have? I don’t personally have any experience with Ubiquiti camera, so I am not sure if any of their cameras supports MJPEG streaming format, which is supported by the web browser. So if the camera supports RTSP, but not MJPEG, you will need something like Blue Iris or TinyCam Pro to proxy and encode the video streams to MJPEG, so they can be displayed in the dashboard.

[Iram_Chavira]

Hi James for your quick response, I can’t access the link it tells me that page doesn’t exist

For the Ubiquiti cameras we have UVC-G4-Pro, G3-Flex,Protect G3 PRO, is there a guide to use Blue Iris or TinyCam Pro?

Thanks

[josh]

I’ve updated the link in James’ post. Give it a try now.

[kmatwill]

Hi, Is there an output for motioneye that would work with sharptools media tile?

[Chris_C]

I’ve seen other people use motioneye. Does this documentation help?

https://motion-project.github.io/motion_config.html#OptDetail_Stream

[kmatwill]

Thanks. I don’t think I have enough knowledge to make heads or tails of it.

[josh]

From what I gather, the streams from MotionEye are available at a URL in the format:

http://{IP}:{port}/{camid}/stream

Presumably where {IP} and {port} are the IP and port that your MotionEye instance are running at and {camid} is the motioneye camera ID.

If you open up a URL in that format in your browser, do you see your stream? If not, can you tell use more about your motioneye installation and how you have it configured?

[kmatwill]

Thanks. The key was port forwarding. You have to port forward port 8081. I could see the stream via http://homeassistant.local:8081/. Now I can see it via my public ip address on port 8081. (Although, I will probably close that hole, as I only need to see this from my internal dashboard.)

Once I forwarded the ports and waited 5min, it worked.
Oddly, I can’t see it via my domain name with that port.

If someone else is looking to do this, in MotionEye, you will see Useful URLs in the Video Streaming section. In order for this to work, you have to make it an http link, not https, unless you have an SSL certificate.

[Nambi_J]

Josh,

I am stuck. My cameras worked fine until recently. For some reason they are no longer working. I am running my Reolink NVR (4 cameras) set up through TinyCam and a 5th Reolink cam running independently of the NVR. They were then added to Sharptools so I can run them on my Fire 10 via Fully Kiosked Browser. I have gone through the following before asking for assistance.

1. Deleted and re-added all of the camera’s to TinyCam/Sharptools. I followed Justin’s videos to a T.
2. Allowed Mixed Content / Insecure content
3. Enabled SSL Certificates in TinyCam
4. Tried both mjpg/video.cgi?camera={id} & jpg/image.cgi?camera={id}
5. Validated admin/password information is correct/removed them

Any thoughts? Also note, my knowledge base here is limited. I simply followed the instructions in each of these forums. Thanks in advance.

[josh]

Thanks for sharing all the troubleshooting steps you tried.

Are you able to view the streams within TinyCam? What about using the URL directly in your browser (eg. not embedded in a media tile in SharpTools)?

[Nambi_J]

I am able to view them within TinyCam and using the URL within my browser.

[josh]

Which browser are you testing from and what do you see when you view it in the SharpTools Media Edit screen?

Unless the SSL certificate is valid, I would disable it as that could be causing issues. Since you mentioned the allowing of Mixed/Insecure content, does that mean you are using Chrome on a PC to test?

I would also try testing viewing the stream URL directly in a fresh incognito window. Otherwise it’s possible the system might have cached a password or preference that’s allowing it to work when viewed directly.

[Nambi_J]

Josh,

I figured it out. At some points during my troubleshooting and enabling of SSL Certificates I kept switching between HTTP and HTTPS in the URL. I noticed it when I tested the cameras in the chrome browser. LOL. I will be sure add this to my trouble shooting list in the future! Thanks again!!