Question / Help Using cellphone as camera to stream.

[Aspieboy74]

I have a couple old cellphones I'd like to use as pet/security cams for entertainment purposes. I might also want to add other cameras in the future, like webcams/camcorders/etc.

From what I've gathered I will need to install an app which will act as a wireless connection to a pc based webserver app, then I could use OBS to stream that to YouTube/twitch, etc?

I know I could just use the web app to view a single camera at a time, but I'd like to stream to YouTube and switch between the different cameras, maybe more than one at a time.

What would be the best way to set this up? I searched for cell phone streaming and didn't get much. I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Billy

 

[Aspieboy74]

I have a couple old cellphones I'd like to use as pet/security cams for entertainment purposes. I might also want to add other cameras in the future, like webcams/camcorders/etc.

From what I've gathered I will need to install an app which will act as a wireless connection to a pc based webserver app, then I could use OBS to stream that to YouTube/twitch, etc?

I know I could just use the web app to view a single camera at a time, but I'd like to stream to YouTube and switch between the different cameras, maybe more than one at a time.

What would be the best way to set this up? I searched for cell phone streaming and didn't get much. I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Billy

I watched this following video and it looks fairly complete. It doesn't get into using cellphones, but I suppose using the option of selecting the window which has the web interface for the cellphone camera would work.

OBS Studio - How to Add Game, Webcam, Overlay, Text Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ojeVYsLY4

Would this be the most efficient/best way to do this?

TIA, Billy

 

[Tomasz Góral]

One of possibility is use nginx-rtmp (server on windows) and Larix Broadcaster on phone.
Larix Broadcaster send video to nginx-rtmp, OBS connect via Media Source to nginx-rtmp and get stream (any stream, e.g. raspberry pi etc.)

Second option is NDI (buy NDI Camera from NewTek), run on phone, remember install NDI plugin in OBS, NDI is direct connect.

 

[koala]

There exist apps (at least for Android) which you can use to directly connect each phone to OBS without any intermediate server.

In my opinion, "IP Webcam" leaves nothing to be desired.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam
You use it with OBS by adding a VLC Media Source and add an entry to the play list like this:
http://<ip-address>:8080/picture.mjpg
You can also manage the running cam very comfortably from your PC by using the camera interface with your favorite browser at http://<ip-address>:8080/

For multiple phones, add multiple vlc media sources and configure each with the specific ip/url of each phone.

 

[BG5TWC]

if you want to switch cameras, may be you need a webSocket plugin to control OBS studio. you can use a app which can run as rtsp server, that you can pull stream from your cellphone in obs, or you need to setup a ossrs server to receive stream from cellphone.