Question about adding camera dynamically

[roycw]

Hello,

Is that possible to add feeds dynamically after ONVIF discovery ?

[AlexxIT]

I don't understand the question

[roycw]

HI Alexx, im running an ONVIF discovery to discover any RTSP feeds on my local LAN then i want to automatically add those feed to any configuration so i can consume them can i add them dynamically via API or any other way, the only way i saw on the docs is exlicitly add my feed to the yaml.

on a dfferebnt note: i ran docker run -i -t alexxit/go2rtc just to get the docker running but visting localhost:1984 doesnt resolve.... am i doing anything wrong ?

[roycw]

This is closed. need to forward the port 7000:1984 did the trick

[travisghansen]

I have a similar need, I want to be able to setup new cameras on the fly like mediamtx where I can just set a new stream key and the device 'just works' as a new stream. Is it possible to allow rtmp clients to stream with arbitrary stream keys and automatically join the config?

[AlexxIT]

New unknown streams are not difficult to add. But I'm not sure if this is good application design

[travisghansen]

Fair enough. I can explain my use-case a little and you can guide me. I am building an IOT-like device that should 'just work' for users who know pretty much nothing about video. They will be running events like sports events etc and on the fly will be adding new cameras in the venues to either help the operations teams have eyes in different remote areas or to eventually take the stream and broadcast to spectators.

I prefer to be able to tell them to install something like streamlabs on a phone and just put whatever they want as the stream key (ie: dynamic streams) and that using a given url structure that matches the stream key they can just pull up that feed in a browser. mediamtx fulfills this perfectly, but I have other requirements (such as pulling in a stream from a local v4l2 2 device, and possible integration with frigate) that go2rtc seems to better fit. If I can consolidate that would be ideal but if not possible then it's not possible.

[AlexxIT]

Now you can just add 10 or 20 or more empty streams to the config. And use them.
You can also add streams and change the config via the API.
I'll think about adding unknown streams. Maybe it will appear in the future.
Now it is more important to add the permissions logic.

[travisghansen]

I considered the adding a bunch of streams route, that may be easy enough. I also considered using the api, glad to hear it's an option. Hypothetically I could put a reconcile loop somewhere which queries mediamtx and then updates the go2rtc config via api (should I even need mediamtx in the scenario).

Thanks for the response and consideration! I will play around with a few things and see how it goes.