IP Cam: Sneaking It In To Sage ?

[PeteCress]

One of my IP cams, I would like to be presented on my TV screen without a lot of hocus-pocus by the viewer.

My Sage installation is 100% OTA, fed by three SiliconDust HomeRun 2-Tuner boxes.

What I am thinking of is some way to take the IP cam's signal and wrap it up so that it looks like a TV channel and then just let SageTV "Tune" it.

Maybe something in front of the SD boxes so that it's on the coax as a TV channel and the SD boxes and everybody down the chain doesn't know anything else ?

[KryptoNyte]

I believe the webfeedencoder already does this. I've tested it with a USB connected webcam, but not with an IP camera. Check it out ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX3vvly-OL8

[wayner]

I played with WebFeedEncoder in the past and I am pretty sure that you need to have VLC running and the IP cam is streamed by VLC. I found that not to be a very good solution as VLC just isn't stable.

But it would be great if someone could come up with a more reliable way of doing this, especially if it didn't require a third party program like VLC.

There are relatively easy ways of doing this with a plain analog camera that has a composite out as you can just put that into a tuner card that has a composite input and you are good to go. But then you need to get a wire from the camera to your SageTV server, or a wireless camera.

[PeteCress]

Originally Posted by KryptoNyte

I believe the webfeedencoder already does this. I've tested it with a USB connected webcam, but not with an IP camera. Check it out ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX3vvly-OL8

Believe-It-Or-Not: I actually got through the install and almost managed to config my camera.

"Almost" because it's in the channel lineup and I can select/play it... but get a black screen and something's bringing Sage to it's knees.

I config'd the cam as "Type=TV (MPEG stream)".

But the dropdown list of Types seems to suggest that I am trying to fool Mother Nature by using this plugin against an IP cam.

Ditto a static web page.

I am assuming that once I get a picture, I can delete the channel's recording schedule so it only hits the RecordedTV drive if/when somebody is "Watching Live TV".

Can anybody chime in that is doing this with an IP cam ?

How about a web page ?.... I wouldn't mind having a web page or two available for ready reference.

[dinki]

I haven't tried this plugin, but I did watch the Youtube video above. In it, the author sets up a web cam feed from a marina and plays it. This would lead me to believe that you should be able to do the same with your ip camera. I don't recall if he shows the option he chose, but I'm pretty certain it wasn't MPEG stream.

[wayner]

The thread for WFE is found here: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...webfeedencoder

It has been dormant for almost three years and I don't think that the author supports it anymore. If you read the thread you will notice that WFE was somewhat picky about versions of VLC and version 1.05 was recommended. Note that the current version of VLC is now 2.2.1.

But again - it would be great if someone would write a new way to get IP cams, or other URL "streams" into SageTV.