Chicken Coop @ Elementary School -- Live Stream to YouTube (via RTMP)

May 29, 2021
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Chicago
Hi All -- Happy Holidays!! So-appreciate all the advice I've found on this forum! Any advice on getting this set up is appreciated


Short-term Goal: simple/affordable/permanent Live Stream of chicken coop at school so there can be unlimited simultaneous viewers

Longer-term Goal: ability to add 1-2 more cameras and add fun overlays to prompt donations (some version of this is what I'm going for)

Constraints: have 120V power, but no internet/wifi


What I've done so far:

  • I have new T-mobile 5G home Internet in place (tested with impressive 600 down and 65 up) - starting with 130GB/mo plan at $25
  • connected it to unmanaged PoE+ switch
  • purchased this Dahua from Andy at EmpireTech (IPC-T54IR-AS-S3 1/1.8" w. 2.8mm lens for max wide angle)

Next: trying to figure out how to best connect/configure this RTMP capable camera directly to YouTube


Questions:

  • is it best bet to get cam initially configured via PC (including YT stream)?
  • if ultimately I want to use something like OBS, should I just begin install with Rasberry Pi running OBS or similar in first place?
- there isn't a cloud-based service that can add overlays to live stream just before YT (without need for local hardware/OBS), is there?


Thank you in advance with any thoughts!!! The children and chickens THANK YOU!