Using Image Item as attachment

[matt1 (Skinah)]

I stumbled onto another method that would work ffmpeg.

To save a picture from the RTSP stream this works but you need to disable authentication for ONVIF for it to work. Normally you can not disable authentication for Dahua cameras but I found in my Amcrest camera it is possible to leave it off for ONVIF whilst the rest stays protected via digest.

In rules you can use the execute method to run this command.

ffmpeg -t 1 -i 'rtsp://192.168.1.50:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif' -vframes 1 /etc/openhab2/html/camerapicture.jpg

More info here…

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…