Tips

Links

Test Camera streams

I suggest testing with one of these if you don’t have your own camera yet. Courtesy of camlive.info and camera stream publishers.

Rigging up your own motion sensors can be done with the CM19a

• Projects including X10 Cm19a, Python Programming, Home Automation, Ubuntu install scripts, Raspberry Pi auto install and configuration scripts.
  • Python X10 CM19A USB Driver Software for Linux
• cm19a - Control your X10 CM19a Transceiver directly or embed the code in your own application using this Python CM19a driver
  • https://github.com/Cuddon/cm19a

About Node.js Streams

• substack/stream-handbook

Commands

Test libx264 with FFMPEG

ffmpeg -i rtsp://50.73.56.89/axis-media/media.3gp -f mp4 video.mp4

Test libvpx with FFMPEG

ffmpeg -i rtsp://50.73.56.89/axis-media/media.3gp -f webm video.webm

Clear RAM in Ubuntu Must be root to run this, sudo does not work

echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches