C-Bus 5500AC2 - RTSP Camera Steaming APP

Discussion in 'C-Bus Automation Controllers' started by Diggerz, Jan 2, 2026 at 2:10 AM.

  1. Diggerz

    Diggerz

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    After a little feedback on how people are currently viewing and displaying camera streams and their layouts.

    I've begun developing an app to natively support viewing RTSP streams on the 5500AC2.

    Currently i use a Pi to handle the RTSP streams for viewing on the 5500AC2, but ideally I've wanted to have a self hosted option to do away with the pi and http/https mixed content and cross origin work arounds.

    After trialing a few different methods, i finally have one i think I'm happy with that runs totally on the 5500AC2. No Pi or 3rd party proxy required, just a h.264 rtsp url from the camera or nvr.

    Current testing is with 9 streams from the camera/NVR's secondary stream set as 720P(705 x 576), bitrate constant, 512kbps, 15FPS, h.264, iframe interval 30. While testing i had 3 clients simultaneously viewing all 9 streams at once ( browser, iPhone and tablet ), this was about the limit of the 5500AC2's SoC. Generally this would be ok as the streams are only processed on demand, not constantly. so if there is only 1 or 2 clients simultaneously viewing all 9 streams periodically its ok, but to be safe i scaled back the page to viewing 4 streams at once, clicking a stream will open it in full screen, and optionally can show the single main stream if supplied for better quality.

    The individual streams can be available for use in local iframe aswell for custom interfaces.

    Depending how the majority are adding cameras to their pages, I can adjust the app page layout's to better suit direct iframe integration of the 4 stream layout, or just give each card a "copy url" button to past into an iframe, with or without the card fromatting. ( just the raw stream image ).

    I'm still working on tweaking and testing things, so no plans on release as yet but open to any feedback.

    Quick Video Demo and Pics Below:


    https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c944...ey=z608bsy7i20a1mc6wazzjkadz&st=j0xiitik&dl=0

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    Diggerz, Jan 2, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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