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Hello,

Does anyone know of a FOSS CCTV design software as an alternative to JVSG or CCTVCad?

Thanks

Hello. I have a dilemma. I have the front room of my house currently lifted for floor works and have noticed that the mains water pipe comes in from the front of the house (from the boundary water cock) on about 3m of 15mm copper pipe.

There is then a joint in this front room that connects it to a 22mm galvanised steel pipe.

The steel pipe then runs under a supporting wall through the rest of the house to the kitchen, where the internal stopcock is.

Water pressure is really, really good both downstairs and upstairs and after leaving the house for days or even weeks the water always flows clear, so no signs of rust or blockages.

Since the house is 1930's built, though i have no idea when the pipes were installed (noting there's already this copper pipe change in place). Is it worth changing this steel pipe now?

Also is the 15mm incoming pipe okay or should I increase to 22mm? House is on a combi boiler.

The dilemma is that it would mean tearing up the rest of the floors in the other rooms and kitchen and I'm really not sure if i have the appetite to do that if the steel pipe still has many years left in it. Esp. the kitchen with the units and appliances and everything. I guess I'm asking what the likely risk is and is it really a problem (leaks, blockages, health etc). I'm just glad its not lead!

Edit: I've managed to find the other end/ bend point of the pipe without too much damage so ill attempt a swap out for copper by feeding a straight run through. Luckily the bend also converts to another copper pipe! Thanks for everyone's input

Hello,

I've attached a diagram of the setup I'm trying to achieve. Hopefully its clearer than trying to explain it with text...

Basically I'm trying to stream the camera to a selfhosted webpage.

The camera is connected to the VPN server

The stream is picked up on the Media Server (MediaMTX)

The stream is available from anywhere on the local network via whatever protocol MediaMTX offers. All good here.

The webserver set up is Nginx. Works fine.

A basic Wordpress site is set up and I can access it via a domain name over the internet with HTTPS.

What I'm struggling with is getting the "local stream" (read local IP) in to the website. I have WP plugins that let me embed streams, but I suspect the issue is the local IP is not available over the internet so you cant just point it to 192.X.X.X. Saying that though, even on my local network I cant see the stream.

So the questions are,

1. how can I serve the stream to nginx/ wordpress and
2. can I somehow have nginx treat the stream as a locally hosted resource that can proxy the stream to remote web browsers?

Ideally I dont want to open up a port on the LAN for a direct streaming to the internet which the website then points to as it seems a unsafe... But if that's the only way then I guess it can''t be helped.

Happy to provide more info if needed.

TIA

Edit: Wordpress is for a separate website project outside of the scope of this post. Only 1 page will be for the video player/ stream but there will be other uses for the website. Not just streaming

Edit 2: Seems the general consensus is that I do need to publicise my video stream.

I've just made my website accessible through its local IP and gotten embedded HLS and WebRTC streams working. Putting the domain back no longer plays the videos so its certainly a networking access issue or even a https issue as the streams are currently http.

I didn't realise you could reverse proxy a video stream! (Even though i did once upon a time use the nginx rtmp server).

I've also been made aware of tailscale + funnel which does a similar thing without exposing my own domain.

I'll have a go at reverse proxying it, which should also sort out the https issue and hopefully be done 🤞

You guys rock!