feat: add README and useful bash scripts #1
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README.md
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| This script uses `ffmpeg` to download via RTSP the video and audio from your camera saving it in the MP4 format, the name will start with the `date` of the day (ex. `2022-08-26--22-00-00-capture-0000.mp4`) and a file will be recorded and saved every `$TIME` seconds. | ||
| The name of the files starts with a date to make it easier the management of the files, like removing easily all the records of a specific month, day or year. |
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How does this work, does the stream get downloaded until a certain point? and could we do this "indefinitely" until the script is stopped?
Some questions I think that should be answered:
- How do i stop the download of the stream?
- Limits of downloading the RTSP stream?
- Expected file sizes? also stream quality and network requirements / limitations.
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I don't know exactly the answers to these questions.
To stop the stream the user can just type "Ctrl+C", for the rest I still need to make experiments and activate my camera at home, which will take a long time.
clean_records.sh
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| LAST_MONTH=$(date --date='-1 month' +'%Y-%m') | |||
| rm "tmp/$LAST_MONTH-"* | |||
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maybe we could move this script inside the downloads script as a flag instead since the user would probably not always use the tmp directory.
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I would use a separate script because using crontab a user can in parallel run this only script to delete the old files
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we can achieve the same thing using a flag with the download script, but i think your approach is better since it cannot be accidental when you literally run "clean_records". But I think you still need to be able to delete stuff in a different folder and thus need to accept an argument for a directory
Co-authored-by: Alano Terblanche <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Alano Terblanche <[email protected]>
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script and README updated |
related ReolinkCameraAPI/reolinkcameraapi.github.io#1