Streaming Live Video

[MrBitey]

Hi all,

 

One of our teachers will be receiving an incubator and eggs which they will nurture until the hatch into chicks.

He wants a 'live video feed' of the eggs.

I'm looking for a way to do it easily, which doesn't involve knocking up video servers using Raspberry Pi computers and all that.

I've had a look for any websites which do it and there are a few out there which are subscription only. So no good.

Google Meets needs us to have the paid for version of Google Education to do a live stream.

I had a go with Twitch and couldn't get that going.

Installed Yawcam and that can't get through Smoothwall. I think that's going to be an issue with most of the solutions.

 

Any ideas or suggestions. It's a bit of a PITA to be honest and it's for a couple of weeks only..

The teacher has just popped by while I am typing this with a cheery 'any luck?'. Not yet!!!

 

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

[Danp]

At my last place, I used an old laptop, Yawcam and opened the ports in Smoothwall. Worked really well.

[MrBitey]

Thanks Dan.

I will see if the LEA bods can open the required ports (they being the guardians of the Smoothwall!)

[Sanchez]

I've done this a couple of years running using an old laptop and streaming to YouTube directly from the web. This year I'm going to use OBS studio as I've been playing around with it for live streamed assemblies.

[SamanthaD]

Does this really need a live stream? Would a time lapse not be good enough, with video being recorded locally when hatching is getting close for distribution after? Just thinking a still image will use a lot less bandwidth than video ever would.

 

If not then maybe an off the shelf CCTV system with remote viewing might work, depending on who wants to watch the video. If it's just for staff to monitor and observe this might work well, if it's for all and sundry to coo over then perhaps not.

[DaveTheTech]

I have used a raspberry pi specifically for this.

Live video that streamed over the network and picked up using vlc player. It used gstream.

I made the script load on boot. So all someone had to do was power on the Pi.

 

Ill see if I can find the blog - it was about 4 years ago mind.

[MrBitey]

A time lapse might be a better idea perhaps. I like the idea of maybe trying to video the hatching and putting that up.

[Griff]

I am doing ours at the moment. I set it up on an old laptop with 2 webcams and run it using Streamlabs on YouTube put the video as made for kids and disabled the chat.

[SamanthaD]

How about one of the wildlife cameras that are motion activated? Almost as if they were made for the task! :-)

[chazzy2501]

setup a teams group of all users (as guests) and host a meeting from an old laptop and leave it running. people could drop in and watch. I can't see more than 250+ simultaneously people viewing it.

 

people could chat about it in the messages (if you allow it) and share pictures of what they saw and ask questions.

[Boredguy]

Last time we just used a laptop, webcam and used VLC on it as a streaming host, however as the chicks were being incubated in a classroom, we were only able to allow the video feed to devices on the network and not external in case a student decided to move it around and show the kids in the classroom.

[paulkerton]

OBS and YouTube.