How to configure a hacked Xiaomi Dafang to work with OpenHAB

[matt1 (Skinah)]

@max-e-moose

While the video stream from this camera works well when viewed via other methods (VLC, etc), I have not yet managed to get the stream showing in the OpenHAB GUI

Have you tried this method at all? If it works in VLC then I would be surprised if these steps wont work.

How to display RTSP streams from IP Cameras in Openhab and Habpanel (Linux only)

Update: The IpCamera binding can now create mjpeg streams for cameras which do not have this ability normally. The below is not needed if you use the binding to do it for you. Tonight whilst playing with ffmpeg and ffserver I found the following way to use them to get working RTSP streams in Openhab and Habpanel. This only works in Linux as ffserver is not available on the other platforms although ffmpeg itself is. This can be improved to have this auto start very easily, but this method is ha…