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Picamera2 RTSP Streaming with multiple resolution feeds

websitecontact+wtipnet@wtip.net (William Cooley) — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 11:00:00 -0400

This is an update to my previous blog post where I wrote about how to stream a high and low resolution hardware encoded H.264 video feed from a Raspberry Pi and Camera Module over RTSP. With the release of Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian Bullseye in November 2021, there were some significant changes to the camera driver that deprecated1 the Picamera V1 Python library that I had been using in my previous code.

Raspberry Pi Pico powered LED Lamp

websitecontact+wtipnet@wtip.net (William Cooley) — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:00:00 -0400

I recently completed a LED conversion on a Dazor P-2134 fluorescent tube task lamp. Dazor has been making variations of this lamp since 1938.
The newly converted lamp has adjustable brightness and color temperature and uses a 20kHz PWM frequency to avoid any image banding on digital camera image capture.

Raspberry Pi Camera RTSP Streaming with multiple resolution feeds

websitecontact+wtipnet@wtip.net (William Cooley) — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:00:00 -0400

Update July 2023: The setup instructions below work with Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy) based on Debian 10 (buster). For instructions that will work with Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian 11 (bullseye), please have a look at my updated blog post here.

I was looking for a way to stream two H.264 video feeds from an old Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi Camera Module with the first feed being the highest resolution that I could achieve from the camera and the second being a lower resolution that would be more suitable for analysis. To monitor the Pi Camera and perform motion and AI object detection with a Frigate NVR system, I wanted the feeds served from an RTSP server.