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mahockey

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Hi,

I have a pretty small I.P CCTV set-up in my home:

4 Hikvision DS-2CD2332-I 3MP
1 Hikvision 4ch POE NVR

My question is..

I have an unused Raspberry Pi lying around, and I was wondering if there is a way to turn it into a viewing station in a second room that I have a TV in? - no recording or anything needed (my NVR does that) just to view.
Is there any software that I could install on the Pi that will allow me stream my cameras to the Pi, so I would be able to view my cameras on this second TV on demand?

Just an idea for a cheap solution seeing I have the hardware lying around.

All suggestions welcome.

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BI... lol

The simple & better solution could be to use the NVR vga or hdmi output to the tv (depending of course on running cables and the tv inputs)
 
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Sorry you lost me with the 'BI..lol' comment.

As clearly mentioned I am looking for a possible solution for a second viewing station.

The NVR has its own TV/Monitor in another room.
I was just asking if there is a way to get the Pi to view the streams from the cameras also.
 
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The BI...lol was referring to the fact that a reply above mine (that has now been deleted by the poster) suggested using the web page output of Blue Iris... which of course isn't available, cos your not using Blue Iris.

I doubt that that the processor / hardware in the pi is up to the task of providing an acceptable result

As clearly said before...... using or splitting an output from the nvr would guarantee a good result for the 4 live cameras full frame rate video streams on the second tv / station

P.S Don't shoot the messenger, lol
 
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I agree, vga/HDMI straight from the NVR to the TV is the best bet. Even if there was a way to view the streams on Linux, the raspberry pi would likely not be able to handle it unless it was a jpeg stream which it probably would not be.
 
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Yes it probably can.

Use XBMC - works on my RPi.
 
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Hi!

I am also looking for doing this..

can you give some more info about the xbmc/kodi addon? what are the possibilitiets?

I have an NVR with 9 IP cams connected to it..

and i would also like to use a raspberr pi as second viewing point (the 9 cams (or 4) at once)

are there other sollutions?
 
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I am running Openelec on my raspberry pi, KODI, I open the RTSP stream for one cam at a time. Works fine.
 
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No, I also bought a simple second NVR from ALI (without a harddisk) mainly for showing 4 cams at once. I also had bought a Minix Neo Z64 for behind my wall mounted TV. that does the trick to display 4 at a time.

I also tried a android stick, but that didn´t go well
I have tried a lot :')Intel NUC works great, HP T620 also
 
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Kodi add-ons for viewing IPCam streams:
Multi Cam, by Leopold
Surveillance Room by Maikito26
You can Google how to install their repositories.
Both work well on RasPi B+ and 2 with LibreElec (or OpenEelec).
Another way is to save shortcuts to individual camera streams in your favourites, but that will display only one camera at a time.


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I was able to get this working with my Raspberry Pi 3.
Using omxplayer, it works perfectly for 4 streams and up to 8 without any hitch (except for bandwidth if you are trying to do 1080p).
 
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Hi. I found the combination of omxplayer and screen allowed for a great secondary display.

I tried it a few different ways but found this Solved: [Tutorial] RTSP Raspberry Pi B+ Viewer [6-Cam] [4-Cam] - Ubiquiti Networks Community

And the 4 and 6 display options worked really well.
Things to note- if your camera primary stream is set to a higher than 1920x1080 Resolution it (omxplayer) won't like it. I ended up just putting in the RTSP secondary stream. As I was putting up 4way or 6way onto the one small 17" monitor it wasn't a big loss.
 
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