Good suggestions in the chat. Ill throw in my setup for your consideration.

I have several cameras, specifically with Ingenic SOCs on which ive flashed Thingino firmware (foss) so thats a bit of security on the camera side. Some others like hikvision ive picked up but not gotten around to setting up yet. But itll be plug and play as youll see next.

Next i have a router flashed with freshtomato but openwrt is also an option. On that ive set up a vlan for the cameras that do not have internet or inter vlan access. So even if i didnt have custom camera firmware, they still wouldnt be able to send it anywhere.

Next my home vlan has one way access in to the “camera vlan” so i can view from my network.

Finally wireguard server (on the home vlan so it has internet access) so i can monitor remotely

I just pull the rtsp streams. Havent gotten round to feed analysis yet but i used to use zoneminder. But i hear frigate and another software (cant remember off my head) supports for coral tpu quite well even after it has been dropped from support

Yeah that’s a fair point but its a full website with only one page for streaming in this case

Seems this is the way to go amongst all the replies. Didn’t realise i could reverse proxy a camera stream! Thank you

Seems this is the way to go amongst all the replies Didn’t realise i could reverse proxy a camera stream! Thank you

Reverse proxy the stream and reference itself in the reverse proxied website? Is there no way to do it internally in nginx?

Hadn’t heard of it before. Thank you!

I dont know… you tell us! There is a market for all sorts of things

In any case this isn’t an OF/ kink kind of website, rest assured :)

Ooh i see. So Funnel provides an encrypted tunnel and proxy URL for the camera stream out of my network?

So i point the video player to that “public” address and its good to go?

Interesting!

Nothing obvious in the browser logs. Not even a 404 but ill check the other logs again. Thanks!

I need the website to serve to public users but the website itself is out of scope of this post.

One of the pages will be a video player

Apologies if it wasn’t clear.

Yes, I have an RTSP stream all the way to my local network. I can pick up the RTSP stream and also HLS, WebRTC etc. all locally. For all intents and purposes I have a stream ready to go on the local network at 192.168.X.A

The webserver is also on 192.168.X.Y and serves wordpress just fine.

I just dont know how to make the two talk. When I go to https:// website. com the embedded stream looking for 192.168.X.A doesn’t work

However if I go directly to 192.168.X.A in my browser the stream works just fine (I’ve ommited ports in this comment)

Free, self hostable, not subscription based, and lots of support. I’m making a whole website of which one page will be a “live stream”. Happy to explore other options though!

Edit: It won’t be a high traffic production website btw. Just a basic one for a select few users

Is that just to bring the webserver/ WordPress on to the same subnet? Because they already are at this point… everything’s on the 192.X subnet.

At this point we can ignore the VPN and just assume I’m trying to pick the stream up from mediaMTX

Codium. It’s VSCode without the proprietary stuff

Many selfhosted NVRs have been suggested. Personally ive tried:

iSpy

Frigate

Zoneminder

Shinobi

Ended up settling on zoneminder at this stage.

For cameras themselves i just want to point out the OpenIPC project - opensource firmware if youre technically inclined

Edit: I’m hesitant to recomment OpenIPC now since the main streamer is closed source. Thingino is fully open and developed by some of the devs who didn’t agree with the closed source portion