README.md

Save RTSP camera

Connect to a security camera through RTSP and save the frames in storage. Cameras in the local network (LAN) running RTSP with default port (554) are automatically discovered.

Quick-start

Requirements

apt install python3-opencv

Setup

1. Copy config.json.default to config.json and set it up to your liking.
2. Adapt camera.service to your Path and user.
3. Move camera.service to /etc/systemd/system/
4. Enable service: sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable camera.service
5. Start service: sudo systemctl start camera

Config

Below is an example of a potential config.json. For every new discovered server, the default credentials are used. A new frame is stored in path every interval seconds, with the following format: path/<year>/<month>/<day>/hour.min.sec.jpg. Before running the LAN scan, the software will try to connect to the servers in the list, using their credentials or the default ones if there are none. The servers key can also be empty ("servers": []).

{
  "default_username": "admin",
  "default_password": "admin",
  "interval": 3,
  "path": "$HOME/frames",
  "servers": [ 
	       {
		 "address": "10.0.0.33"
	       },
	       {
		 "address": "1.2.3.4",
		 "username": "kibHJI8j",
		 "password": "78gImbEuuCvs4"
	       }
	     ]
}