I am hoping to have a live video feed in a smartphone/tablet format/size so that when I am away from my residence during inclement weather occurrences I (or anyone of my aquaintances) can check the current visibility conditions live at that time. The 5 sensor AcuRite does not have any sort of ceiling/visibility (ceilometer/transmissometer) information built in hence the need for a live webcam quick ref.
Faleemi IP camera has a system built in that you can install it using their android device app using an ethernet cable and/or local wifi; once it is setup to your devices they can be used to view the live camera video anytime from any geog location outside of local wifi range. Once you select the camera to monitor in the app, it sends a connect signal to a live Faleemi web feed server; It appears that triggers your IP camera to start transferring live data from the IP camera to the server and your tablet/phone then connects to their live streaming server to display camera feed live on your device. The problem is getting it to display on a standard non-windows PC browser or any PC browser in any public library or internet cafe environment. Hence the idea to either connect directly to the same Faleemi server in weewx code somehow or else have the same feed routed to a YouTube live feed channel as I am trying to accomplish. I have set up my public wx webpage such that the very top banner area contains a local law enforcement embedded twitter timeline as well as a local highways department twitter timeline and I am hoping to have the live web cam feed in between those two. The highways/law enforcement feeds will display highway closure and accident traffic tie up notices and the web cam will show real time visibility conditions. Right below that is the uploaded PWS details for my wx station in an inline frame. ( http://tr0p0scatter.ca/html/wx-webcam.html ). It really seems to be a convoluted route but without a whole life experience portfolio of extensive coding in my toolbag it so far seems to be the only hopeful do-able for me at this point. VLC media player could play the stream from the camera server if I can get the Faleemi stream URL and key/password etc and then the OBS Studio I am told will consider VLC stream output as a device and talk to YouTube Live feed channel.I have confirmed OBS Studio does live stream to YouTube LIve feed. I know most folks are familiar with just connecting a built in web cam and sending it live using a usb cable connection but that doesn't work when the camera is suspended 20 feet off the ground and using wifi to send the video rather than a direct 75 ft usb cable lol. Thanks for your time and suggestions. On Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 4:09:03 PM UTC-5, vince wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 1:58:32 PM UTC-7, VE4PER wrote: >> >> Has anyone had any experience incorporating a live webcam video for >> visibility reference in weather stations without a ceilometer or >> transmissivity sensor enabled? >> >> I would like to try and include a link in the html template file to the >> youtube live feed..... >> > > > Do you need a 'video' or is a periodic snapshot good enough ? > > I run 'motion' on a raspi and save a snapshot to my HTML_ROOT periodically, > and my templates have that as a <img src="pathname_here.jpg"> link therein. > > Easily good enough for what I'm doing and very light on the bandwidth > needs.... > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
