Anyone know of a doorbell camera that provides an H.264 RTSP video stream?
The Camera Finder has no filter for doorbell form factor or RTSP support, so I'm hoping someone might know off-hand.
Anyone know of a doorbell camera that provides an H.264 RTSP video stream?
The Camera Finder has no filter for doorbell form factor or RTSP support, so I'm hoping someone might know off-hand.
This small company from Taiwan says their DoorBell Intercom can send RTSP streams to NVRs:
This one says its ONVIF/RTSP compatible. $179.00 at Amazon.
This might prove to be tough. Most of the current crop of smart doorbells (ie: Ring, et al) use SIP rather than RTSP.
This makes sense, because while SIP is more complex, it handles P2P traffic better (ie: 2 way audio) compared to RTSP which is mostly used for simple broadcast to one or multiple clients.
That said, if you're willing to jump over to the video intercom (bigger, costlier than doorbells), you should be able to find RTSP out fairly easily. Take the Axis A8004-VE for example.
Thank you for these suggestions.
They made me realize that I asked my question too narrowly. We can use any H.264 stream regardless of whether connections are initially negotiated with SIP, described by SDP, or transmitted via RTP. So I should have asked "Which doorbell cameras provide documented access to their H.264 video streams". Thanks again.
We found the new doorbell camera dbell (https://www.dbell.ca) that's launching next week and connected it to Camio via RTSP (https://test.camio.com/c/01keswxvaccg) - even over the Internet from Canada ;) Thanks everyone for the suggestions.
Axis's new A8105-E is really nice and small. 1080P video and fisheye lens for no blind spots unlike it's bigger brother.
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