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This tutorial will explain how to set up a inexpensive Raspberry Pi to convert the RTSP stream from a common security camera to a RTMP stream required by YouTube. This will show the minimum required to make it happen. You will need a Raspberry Pi 3B or 3B+ with the Raspberry Pi Legacy OS...

Is there a way to connect to a RTSP stream output from Blue Iris showing all the cameras in one stream? I thought I read somewhere here that it is possible, but now cannot find the thread.

Yesterday I installed a construction site camera for a local contractor. The construction site has no close power yet and no internet. So, the camera was set up to trigger on motion and record video and still images to a internal micro SD card. The camera is a Dahua N45DB7Z mounted at about...

This morning I installed a Dahua camera that will watch the removal of a historic mural before the building is demolished. The 38' x 140' mural has been there for 65 years and is composed of 763,000 one inch squares of tile. The mural removal should take about three months. For more...

CES 2022 was held in Vegas again this year after a virtual CES for 2021. It's always fun to see the latest electronics gadgets the creative manufacturers are trying to bring to market. Many of the products are prototype and may never make to market. This year was no exception. CES is usually...

I've been watching this one for a couple years. It's a very busy seaplane base in Anchorage, AK. Skiplanes in the winter.

Installing livestream cameras continues to be a big part of the business. A few years ago I installed a Hikvision 4K PTZ camera on a 18' steel pole for a customer. The camera worked good but the big problem was it would not tilt up much over 0 degrees. That would be ok if the camera was...

I decided to try a Dahua Night Color camera to see if it performed as advertised. I connected the camera to a Raspberry Pi to convert the RTSP to RTMP for YouTube Live. It's been running for almost two weeks now and seems to perform quite well. It is in a rural area with little light...

I have a new Dahua 8A840WANF to be installed at a customers business in the next couple weeks. He requested a joystick be added in the configuration. The camera is hooked up in the shop and PTZ works using the web interface and with Blue Iris. When I connect the NKB1000 to the network and set...

In October I was asked to install a live view camera on a summer home in Breckenridge. CO. The owner provided me with some details and photos of the proposed location and desired view. So I loaded up the truck and headed west. The install couldn't have been easier. The cable modem was...

A few weeks ago I was contracted to upgrade a Vivotek IP PTZ camera that I installed about 6 years ago. The camera looks at a prairie chicken lek and provided live video to a guest lodge a few miles away. At the time the Vivotek was one of the better options out there and it did perform pretty...

The Nebraska sandhills region covers roughly 23,000 square miles . It is a vast region of sparsely populated counties and not too many roads. It lies atop the Ogallala aquifer, the largest fresh water aquifer in the world. In the low lying areas are hundreds of lakes and rivers. 85% of the...

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to install a IP camera cellular monopole. The camera is a 2mp Dahua PTZ. I use this same camera on many other installations and it has proven to be very dependable. The camera is at the 125' level on the monopole. I installed the camera below the...

A few years ago a customer approached me about putting camera of some sort on a beaver lodge to record motion and timelapse images. We started off with a couple Sony mirrorless cameras. One for daylight and one that I had modified to respond to 940nm infrared light. Motion was detected using...

A few months ago I was taking out the trash and while walking down the driveway I noticed a car stopping at our mailbox, opening it and driving away. It was dark so I know it was not the rural mail carrier. We live in a rural area and have had occasions of missing mail in the past. We don't have...

I have several IP cameras set up to livestream to YouTube in remote locations. Each camera location has limited outgoing bandwidth so using Blue Iris directly is not an option. Is there any way to set up Blue Iris to receive the YouTube live stream and display in the user interface? There is...

This project monitors a milkweed plant 24/7 to record plant growth and the many pollinators that help. The equipment setup includes a remote IP security camera modified for close focus and infrared illumination. The plant holder is a Wimberley PP-400 held in place with a little camo duct...