Amcrest IP camera

I am using Amcrest cameras with ethernet or dual 2.4/5Ghz support. I think they were around ~$60-70 each. They work with RTSP and homebridge-camera-ffmpeg. I am very happy with them. Signal quality was ok when running ffmpeg on a raspberry pi, but I have since moved the cameras to a homebridge instance on a more powerful Windows machine, and the quality is significantly better! I also added some custom HTTP switches in homebridge that send commands to the cameras to activate pitch/tilt/zoom commands so I can look around. I am also wondering if we will see any updates to support new HomeKit …

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I installed Homebridge on my Windows 10 PC. I then added the homebridge-camera-ffmpeg. I added my Amcrest camera, and while it pulls the thumbnail into Homekit, I can't stream video. I get the following error when I start the stream [2/16/2020, 11:16:01 AM] [Camera ffmpeg] Snapshot from New Nursery at 480x270 ffmpeg -i http://admin:[email protected]/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi -t 1 -s 480x270 -f image2 - [2/16/2020, 11:16:04 AM] [Camera ffmpeg] Start streaming video from New Nursery with 1280x720@299kBit ffmpeg -i rtsp://admin:[email protected]/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=00&authbasic= …

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I have so far been unable to reproduce this issue with my Amcrest camera, not sure what’s going on. Amcrest cameras also support SMTP, maybe that would work for you?

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