Folks,
I need some guidance here. I want to set up a small Linux machine to
handle a video stream from a camera and audio from microphone along
with incoming audio from a remote site. The idea is to place a camera
on a industrial machine, when there is a problem, the operator can
position the camera, connect a headset with mic, call a remote viewing
site and have a engineer look at his streaming video. I have been looking
at possible solutions, the first that comes to mind is a stripped down
Zoneminder setup, I do not need to record the video, but it would be nice
to have more than one cam on the system just in case the customer wants
more than one device observed during the session. Cameras are cheap
now so that is not a issue. The issue with ZM is that it does not handle
audio, but it handles incoming connections to it's video server very well
and I figure if I can come up with a separate audio system then I can
get my prototype going, and at that point get some additional help with
things.
The way we want to do this is, the customer discovers a problem with
a machine, the local mechanics and engineers try to fix it, but have a
problem. We already use VNC to access the processors that are on
the machine so we have a path into the machine already.
The customer will call us and advise us of the issue, we will then use
a web browser to connect to the remote machine and as soon as we
have good video, and the customer has a service person hooked up
and on line we will proceed to observe the issue and try to give help
based on what can be seen on the video feed.
As I said I can set up a stripped down ZoneMinder to start with, prob-
ably move to WebCam once I am familiar with it. What I have to figure
out is how to handle the audio, needs to go both directions. Any ideas
on that one?? Some sort of audio server that will handle the audio part
of the connection.
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