Feed ffmpeg to BI like a camera?

[TheWaterbug]

I'm using ffmpeg to push some RTSP streams from my crittercams to YouTube via RTMP. I'm simultaneously recording the footage in BI, but the raw RTSP lacks the custom overlay that I'm putting on the YouTube feed, e.g. the real-time weather on my BeeCam:

BeeCam from Painted Peacock Manor

Live BeeCam, monitoring my established hives in Palos Verdes, 90274.I have another camera monitoring a "bait hive" or "swarm trap," here:https://www.youtube....

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Since I'm already generating that feed for YT, is there a way to pipe that into BI?

The ffmpeg command is of the form:

./ffmpeg1 -hwaccel videotoolbox -i "rtsp:/anonymous:password@192.168.1.11:554" -vf drawtext='fontfile=/System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.ttc: textfile=/tmp/weather.txt: fontcolor=white: fontsize=48: x=(w-text_w)*0.01: y=(h-text_h)*0.08:reload=600' -vcodec h264_videotoolbox -b:v 5000k -acodec copy -t 01:47:02 -f flv "rtmp:/a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/<my-youtube-streaming-key>"

but I can create another instance of ffmpeg if things need to be different to emulate a camera for BI.

 

[djmadfx]

Checkout GitHub - AlexxIT/go2rtc: Ultimate camera streaming application with support RTSP, RTMP, HTTP-FLV, WebRTC, MSE, HLS, MP4, MJPEG, HomeKit, FFmpeg, etc.

You can use ffmpeg with exec and it should stream out RTSP as well which you could then use in BlueIris.

 

[HHSquared]

Reviving a thread but did you ever get this figured out? would like to set this up myself

 

[TheWaterbug]

Ah, I never got around to it. But this might inspire me to try.

 

[Ssayer]

Not getting 100% sure what you're attempting to do, but... you can do some pretty great stuff with OBS Studio (and it's free)...