G+_Michael Rawson Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Hi all. I've just been to see my kids doing a show and had a fantastic time. However it has set me thinking! They didn't make an official video so I figured that's something I could offer to do next time - easy enough. I'd just make copies at cost price. Then I also thought it's a shame the kids who are off-stage can't see what's going on when they're in the dressing rooms. So why not set up a webcam as well and stream that over local wifi? This must be really easy but as I've never done it before I figured the Know-Hole would have lots of ideas! The venue for the show was a local school, which has almost certainly got a wifi network we could use. The main limitation is I want to avoid online services, in order to avoid having to ask every parent for permission. When you're talking about 50+ kids that's a lot of parents! All ideas / suggestions welcome. Thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 There are several devices that will take HDMI input and convert it into a stream over IP. Take the output from your camera, push it over WiFi, and now any device in the dressing room can see what's happening on stage. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brent Burzycki Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 If it has to do with a camera and kids.... I would ask for permission... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 I've been working on this very project for Church but I'm focusing on audio only to begin with. I've got it working creating a steam in VLC (it will do audio, video, or audio + video) and tapping into that using KODI (OpenELEC) on a Pi. I've got other things causing problems so am looking for other options, but if this is all the laptop is doing it works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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