How to Setup a FLIR F-Series Thermal Camera with MPEG4 streaming
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Prerequisites
- IP address of camera.
- Username and password for the camera.
- Administrator access to Zone Minder.
Checking camera configuration
- Access the camera web interface
- Open the Video IR configuration and configure using the following settings:
- Enabled: Yes
- Associated uFLIRish Id: 0
- Channel Id: 0
- Video Source: Type: IR | ID: 0
- Format: PAL
- Interface: ....
- Port: 554
- RTP/RTSP over HTTP Port: 8080
- Stream Name: ch0
- Use External IP: no
- Enable Multicast: no
- Codec Type: MPEG4
- H.264 is also possible using ffmpeg on zoneminder (check H.264 configuration topic)
- Bit Rate: 3000000
- Rate Control: CBR
- I-Frame Interval: 30
- Image Size: D1
- Frame Rate: 10
- Interlaced: no
Zone Minder configuration (using MPEG4)
- Login to Zone Minder.
- Click on the "Add New Monitor" link located at the bottom of the page, this will take you to the configuration page for adding a new camera.
- General Tab - Use the following settings:
- Name of the monitor
- Source Type - Remote
- Function - Modetect
- Source Tab - Use the following settings:
- Remote Protocol - RTSP
- Remote Method - RTP/Unicast
- Remote Host Name - <ip-address>
- Remote Host Port - 554
- Remote Host Path - /ch0
- Remote Image Colours - 24 bit colour
- Capture Width (pixels) - 720
- Capture Height (pixels) - 576
- Preserve aspect ratio - OFF
- Orientation - Normal
Zone Minder configuration (using H.264)
- Login to Zone Minder.
- Click on the "Add New Monitor" link located at the bottom of the page, this will take you to the configuration page for adding a new camera.
- General Tab - Use the following settings:
- Name of the monitor
- Source Type - Ffmpeg
- Function - Modetect
- Source Tab - Use the following settings:
- Source Path - rtsp://<ip-address>/ch0
- Remote Image Colours - 24 bit colour
- Capture Width (pixels) - 720
- Capture Height (pixels) - 576
- Preserve aspect ratio - OFF
- Orientation - Normal
Monitor Resolution
The resolution can be changed, some of the available resolutions:
- QCIF 176x144
- 4CIF 704x576
- D1 720x576