Case Study - Live Weather Camera Hördt

An affordable installation for observing the local weather situation and streaming to Youtube.

Requirements

FullHD RTSP stream
Affordable hardware components
Easy installation

Hardware

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B with a 8GB Micro SD
Wansview 1080P IP camera, bought on Amazon for 49.99€
Micro USB power supplies

Software

Raspian 9 Strech with Docker CE
Datarhei Restreamer

Setup

The camera is an indoor camera, but it is mounted in front of the window on the outside. The power cord is going from the power supply through the frame of the window to the camera. The camera has a WLAN connection to the internet router.

Camera installation

The Raspberry Pi is inside and connected to the same router and is running Restreamer in a Docker container. The Restreamer pulls the RTSP stream from the camera and pushes it to Youtube:

Live Wettercam aus Hördt / Rheinland Pfalz

On Youtube, the live stream is setup as an event without an ending time. This is more resilient to interruptions than pushing the stream to “Stream now” and will not create a new video ID on short interruptions (e.g. rebooting the camera or the internet router).