I have a 8 ch dahua NVR and seperate poe switch. In addition to being able to view the feeds on my monitor connected to the NVR I was trying to work out if I could add a dahua 7” poe screen from their doorbell kit and share the feed from a mini dome that will be fitted at my front door and just view that feed in the kitchen. I was looking at a dahua pft1300 as a possibility to use. Any ideas how I could do this to utilise the 7” poe screen?
How to view one ip camera from network
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Haha you beat me to it. Specs link
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You might be able to use a 8 to 10" Fire tablet, and stream RTSP from the cam to VLC for Android on the tablet.
What do you think, @looney2ns ?
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Ok. Which Pi would you recommend for my consumption if I went that way. I’d heard the name but had no idea.
actually any pi will do, get the one with rj45 and usb ports,
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if u manage to get working second hand discontinued version 1 model B+ that will work as well.
else get pi2 (maybe discontinued), pi3 or pi4 which might be a bit over kill for your needs.
The parts you may need are below and you may need to do some basic scripting which can be easily googled eg: vlc automatic start at boot up - Raspberry Pi Forums
A raspberry pi.
A hdmi monitor / screen (requires own power supply) or the rPi Foundation PiTFT screen for the neater look (the pi powers it)
A POE splitter with the usb connector that suits your raspberry pi.
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if u manage to get working second hand discontinued version 1 model B+ that will work as well.
else get pi2 (maybe discontinued), pi3 or pi4 which might be a bit over kill for your needs.
The parts you may need are below and you may need to do some basic scripting which can be easily googled eg: vlc automatic start at boot up - Raspberry Pi Forums
A raspberry pi.
A hdmi monitor / screen (requires own power supply) or the rPi Foundation PiTFT screen for the neater look (the pi powers it)
A POE splitter with the usb connector that suits your raspberry pi.
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A tablet with VLC should also work. That's a pretty good idea actually. Could even do an iPad.
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i would also like to add that the rpi solution may require some technical skills eg linux computing and scripting skills so for the non technical minded, sticking to the tablet solution as suggested above may be better.
Between my 3 adult daughters I’m sure I’ll be able to come up an old iPad or iPad mini else head to Amazon etc. So how would streaming to that device work ie the physical set up that’d share the mini dome feed. I don’t want to disrupt the 24/7 recording of that cam to the nvr.
Trying to think this one through logically, so iPads have one port. I’ll need to be able to supply both power and video so that means a connector for both power plus the rj45 from the cam. Will poe work here to power the iPad or will it blow it up? Not knowing the full tech of poe I assume it does not feed power back from a ipcam.
The video feed: rj45 from poe switch to a standard 2:1 splitter. Rj45 from kitchen to the other half of 2:1. Then feed both to the mini dome.
Am I on the right track here? Thanks also @TonyR on this one. Maybe an old dog can be taught new tricks.
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Seems like kind of over-complicating things. Why the need to hard-wire?
Easier:
At least as far as the network. There are some other things that you may need to do, e.g., change settings to keep the screen alive, etc.
Easier:
- Find a spot in the kitchen for the tablet.
- Plug it in.
- Connect to WiFi.
At least as far as the network. There are some other things that you may need to do, e.g., change settings to keep the screen alive, etc.
Yep. So still being new at this. I put an app on the iPad and connect wirelessly. The dahua mini dome I’m intending to use isn’t wireless, so what signal am I connecting to? Can my router broadcast these cam feeds wirelessly. I apologise as I should have maybe specified in the original post the model E3241 which is hard wired only (no wifi)
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