Pov

what is it

POV is the (virtual) server managing the webcams. It stores video files of all webcams over the last 2 days.

OS specifications

• debian stretch
• 32b
• virtual machine with 2 cores
• 1GB ram
• 10GB root filesystem
• 100GB storage for camera files

software

• motion https://motion-project.github.io/
  • used for camera 6 and 11 which are down

• constatus https://vanheusden.com/constatus/
  • all other cameras

motion

• motion is installed from the debian repository
• configuration files are under /etc/motion
• main configuration is motion.conf which includes cam*.conf
• as by the design of motion, all its cameras (6 + 11) are monitored from 1 process

constatus

• installed from the github repository https://github.com/flok99/constatus
• installed under /usr/local/constatus
• started (currently, 20170903) from /etc/rc.local
• each camera has its own constatus process - the idea is that if something crashes, that not all cameras will go down
• video archive can be viewed under http://10.42.19.84:port/ where port is 8101 for camera 1, 8102 for camera 2 and so on

The configuration files are JSON files. They consist of 2 or more sections: general, source and then optional sections. Every other section (apart from video loopback) have an array of entries for their data.

For revspace:

• general section: logfile is located in the /usr/local/constatus directory and loglevel set to info
• source: max-fps set as low as possible (must be high enough for all "users")
• always resizing to 640x480, ignoring aspect ratio
• for mjpeg sources, it is chosen to always ignore issues with ssl certificates
• http-server: two servers are instantiated per camera
  • first server is for motion compatibility: it pushes mjpeg-data without any http handshake whatsoever (apart from the http headers). framerate set to 2fps
  • second server serves an html menu with a couple of options. it allows you to browser through the recorded videos. framerate set to 1fps.
• stream-to-disk: only 1 file (currently). avi-container with mjpeg frames. jpeg quality set to 50, frame rate set to 1 fps
• no motion detection
• cam5 is mirrored in both axises as it has been mounted upside down
• every camera adds a text in the upper left corner with the camera-number in it and in the lower-right corner the timestamp of the moment that the frame was recorded(!)

Recording Specifications

• 5 FPS video files
• 2 FPS HTTP web interface

Cameras

Number	Stream port	HTML port	Physical device protocol	Where
CAM 1	8084	8101	RTSP	hanging above the 3D printer
CAM 2	8085	8102	MJPEG	cantina/kitchen
CAM 3	8086	8103	MJPEG	back side of klusruimte
CAM 4	8087	8104	MJPEG	front side of klusruimte
CAM 5	8088	8105	RTSP	houtbewerkingsruimte (woodworking shop)
CAM 6	broken
CAM 7	8090	8107	MJPEG, source is Verint Nextiva	these produce an RTP stream which are converted to MJPEG by scripting running on the shell server, see https://github.com/Peetz0r/revcaminfra.
CAM 8	8091	8108
CAM 9	8092	8109
CAM 10	8093	8110
CAM 11	These go to eleven?! (this camera doesn't actually exist yet)