[HamWAN PSDR] stream.westin.hamwan.net got an upgrade

[Bart Kus]

Regrettably there are no PTZ controls.  If someone knows of a decent 
ONVIF / Web package for this, perhaps we can fabricobble something together.

--Bart


On 12/21/2022 9:57 AM, Nick Kartsioukas wrote:
> Working in Firefox/Windows (with uBlock and restrictive 3P cookie policies) and Safari/iOS for viewing.  Should there be controls for PTZ camera movement?
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, at 01:36, Bart Kus wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Our video streaming service got completely redesigned and is now
>> available at the same address as before
>> (http://stream.westin.hamwan.net/). Some notable improvements:
>>
>> 1) Multi-browser support!  The old design would only run on Chrome. This
>> redesign should be compatible with all modern browsers, including those
>> on mobile devices.  Please let me know what doesn't work, as I'm sure
>> there are some combinations of tech that fail.
>>
>> 2) Audio support!  Where the cameras have capabilities, audio is being
>> streamed along with the video.  Cameras that don't have microphones
>> stream silent audio.  The mic on ptz.haystack appears to be broken as
>> it's buzzing.
>>
>> 3) Better reliability!  The new implementation responds to stream /
>> connectivity errors in real-time.  The old implementation would wait an
>> hour or more before doing self-heal and bringing video back online.  The
>> javascript video player is also resilient to brief problems.  It stalls
>> for a bit and then skips forward in time after the problems are gone,
>> all automatically.
>>
>> And just like the old site, all of this is happening without any
>> transcoding that can degrade quality.  What you see are the raw camera
>> feeds.  The lack of transcoding also means low CPU load, so we can add
>> many more cameras here.
>>
>> Please give this new system a whirl and let me know if there are any
>> problems or missing features that the old system had which are important
>> still.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Bart
>>
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