After years of reliable camera streaming, I recently upgraded my RTSP Camera Dashboard from a Raspberry Pi to a Dell Mini OptiPlex with Ubuntu. I am still using the Wyze Cameras flashed with the RTSP firmware, which works great as long as your Wi-Fi connection is reliable. I also rewrote the camera streaming software using C++. This setup lets you live stream four cameras to a monitor, which works great for a DIY home security system.
Setup
- Copy the C++ code and create a new file called rtsp_viewer.cpp
- Update the 4 RTSP URLs in the rtsp_viewer.cpp file to be your camera URLS
- sudo apt install libopencv-dev libsdl2-dev
- g++ rtsp_viewer.cpp -o rtsp_viewer `pkg-config –cflags –libs opencv4 sdl2` -pthread
- ./rtsp_viewer
- Setup this application to start on reboot
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