simple-rpi-rtsp-NVR is a Self-hosted NVR solution

This is a simple Python script to use a Raspberry Pi, any other Linux machine or even Windows machines as NVR (Network Video Recorder). The Code will connect to your configured rtsp streams and saves the video files (chunks) to a storage location. The code will also connect to a MQTT server and will publish to a assigned topic. For example: FilePath,FileSize,Status.

Notable features

• Records RTSP streams
• Simultaneous Recordings
• Variable Chunk Size
• Sorted by Year/Month/Day/Hour
• Home Assistant/iobroker integration via MQTT
• MQTT publish status idle/recording/error
• MQTT publish FileSize/FilePath
• easy configuration via yaml config file.

Configuration

Configuration of RTSP Streams, file location, chunk size, MQTT connection can be set within the config.yml file.

• For example:

  cameras:
    Camera1:
      Name: FrontDoor
      IP: 192.168.103.10
      Port: 554
      Path: /ch0_0.264
      User: USERNAME
      Password: PASSWORD
      Width: 1920
      Height: 1080
      Fps: 25
    Camera2:
      Name: Garage
      IP: 192.168.103.11
      Port: 554
      Path: /ch0_0.264
      User: USERNAME
      Password: PASSWORD
      Width: 1920
      Height: 1080
      Fps: 25
  Recorder:
    Path: /PATH/TO/surveillance/recordings
    Chunks: 300
  MQTT:
    Enabled: True
    ClientID: RTSP-Recoder
    IP: 192.168.100.99
    Port: 1886
    User: USERNAME
    Password: PASSWORD
    Topic: Surveillance/Recorder
  

Start-up

Once configured, you can then start the script by typing:

python3 recorder.py

Prerequisites

On Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt update && sudo apt install openRTSP pip3

pip3 install paho-mqtt pyyaml