Media Server

Streaming video from the Pi using raspi-vid and cvlc works well and is stable. This works well with low latency within the LAN

Drawbacks are:

• VLC media player is required to view the stream (need a web browser solution).
• The number of connections to the video steam is limited by your home upload bandwidth (usually lower on ADSL).
• A port must be open on your router that may be a security concern.

One solution is to use a publicly accessible media server to re-stream the video from the hive such as livestream.com.

Streaming video requires bandwidth and it is not practical to publicly stream all the hives all the time. There are times of the year or day when hives will have no interesting activity to view. It would seem desirable to be able to select different video streams from hives in different time zones and different seasons.

Public viewing of hive video.

This is a proposed control structure to turn on and off video streaming from each hive.