Issue using HTTP Binding for Security Cam Feed in HABpanel/BasicUI Sitemap

[matt1 (Skinah)]

@aaronkhare
I know this thread is old but I noticed you are still stopping by the forum. I had the same issues as you outlined above and have solved them by the info in this thread. FFMPEG can take streams from many different formats and convert them into other formats as well as stripping the auth.

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…