Streaming

Settings → Streaming (admins only) sets what the streaming engine offers other apps: the camera streams over RTSP, the ONVIF export, WebRTC for live view and two more ports. Most changes apply while everything keeps running. A new RTSP or WebRTC port restarts the streaming engine, the page asks first, and live views and recordings pause for a few seconds. Without host networking in Docker, publish a changed port as well.

RTSP

Other apps take each camera stream over RTSP, on port 2001 by default.^[1] The camera's Sources tab shows the RTSP URL of every stream.

Username and Password. The login other apps use for the streams. A new installation starts with the username cameraui and a random password. An older one may still use admin and admin, which anyone on your network can guess, so change it there. Apps that use the old login need the new one.
Default query. What an app gets when its RTSP URL asks for nothing else: Video and audio by default. The other choices narrow it to the video or to MP4 codecs, or widen it to every audio track or every track. Own query takes any query the streaming engine understands.

ONVIF

ONVIF export starts the ONVIF server, on port 2005 by default, and Address shows what other apps enter. See ONVIF export.

WebRTC

Port is where live view over WebRTC connects, 2004 by default. Addresses adds addresses with port that the apps try as well, a hostname or a second IP for example. stun:2004 adds the server's public address. The STUN and TURN servers on the same card are explained under Remote access.

Other ports

SRTP (HomeKit) carries the video of the HomeKit plugin, port 2002 by default. RTMP is for apps that send or take RTMP streams, port 2003 by default. Each port has to be free on the machine.

Advanced

Edit go2rtc.yaml opens the streaming engine's file for what the page doesn't cover. The save asks first and restarts the streaming engine when a change needs it. camera.ui writes the camera streams and the ONVIF camera list into the file itself, edits there don't last.

The desktop app adds 100 to every default port, so RTSP is on 2101, WebRTC on 2104 and so on. ↩︎

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