Google Home Nest or Amazon Alexa to view NVR camera via their browser?

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Nick70068

Pulling my weight
Mar 11, 2019
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Has anyone used either a Google Home Nest or Amazon Alexa to stream video from their NVR?
I have a NVR-5208-8P-4KS2 and would like to stream one camera on the device, but aren't sure if the browser in either one is capable of doing this via the internet?


Any information is greatly appreciated!


Nick
 
Let me Google those for you. Lots of info so I'll let you digest it....:cool:

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EDIT: If no joy you may have to look into streaming MJPEG from the NVR or camera, not RTSP....not the best method efficiency-wise, unfortunately. Also, I'd get the stream, either RTSP or MJPEG working okay from the NVR to VLC first to make sure the URL is correct viable then move from there to try with Amazon or Google.
 
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TonyR said:
Let me Google those for you. Lots of info so I'll let you digest it....:cool:

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EDIT: If no joy you may have to look into streaming MJPEG from the NVR or camera, not RTSP....not the best method efficiency-wise, unfortunately. Also, I'd get the stream, either RTSP or MJPEG working okay from the NVR to VLC first to make sure the URL is correct viable then move from there to try with Amazon or Google.
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Tony,

Thanks for the reply.

I rather not setup RTSP. Another problem is I have H.265 encoding configured for all of the cameras which poses a problem with RTSP streaming as mentioned in the links.
I would rather just stream using the browser in Alexa or Google Home Nest (if possible) with IP address of the NVR, for example 192.168.0.91. This is the method I use to view the camera.

BTW, I don't have either device yet. I just don't know if the browser is capable of doing this.

Nick
 
I hear but this is all I got; if no help them perhaps someone else can:
  • I don't have a Dahua NVR but all I know is that I can stream MJPEG from a Dahua camera to Google Chrome browser
  • I'm pretty sure a Dahua NVR can also stream MJPEG.
  • I don't know if the Google Home Nest's browser can do that as the PC version of Chrome can.
  • You don't change all the encoders from H.265 just change the desired camera's substream to MJPEG.
The following URL should work with a Dahua NVR should you decide to configure one camera's substream (subtype=1) to MJPG.
Set Channel # equal to which channel the camera is on the NVR.
Note that URL uses NVR's LAN IP, not camera's IP:

Code: 
http://NVR LAN-IP/cgi-bin/mjpg/video.cgi?channel=1&subtype=1
 
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