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

[Paul Sundquist]

Great work and stunning sunset tonight. Hard to believe I’m listening to a remote AllStarLink repeater through that frozen shack right now.



> On Dec 21, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Bart Kus <me at bartk.us> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, done!
> 
> --Bart
> 
> 
> On 12/21/2022 1:43 PM, John D. Hays wrote:
>> Talk to Jamie Hughes WA7JH, the KCARC repeater in Bremerton has HamWAN connected camera with PTZ. 
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 13:27 Bart Kus <me at bartk.us <mailto:me at bartk.us>> wrote:
>>> 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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