![]() ![]() The live feed of your camera will now appear! To begin recording click 'Start Recording' at the bottom right. Now, paste your RTSP stream link into the 'Input' field then click 'OK'. Now you will be shown a window where you can rename the connection to the camera if you wish. Open up OBS Studio, and click on the + icon, then Media Source Unfortunately this means that if you set OBS Studio on a laptop to view the camera, then connect it to another Wi-Fi router, you won't be able to see the camera.īecause the camera is recording directly to the computer rather than to a micro SD card inside the camera, it will not record when the computer is turned off or if the connection between camera and computer is lost. We will be using an RTSP stream link, which is a way of streaming videos over a local network connection. So for example, if your camera had an IP address of 192.168.0.150, the IP address would be: If you already know what the IP address of your camera is, then you can use the following RTSP stream format for the 3rd Gen camera, where the x's represent the IP address of the camera: Making an RTSP stream for a Wi-Fi or wired IP bird box camera Install OBS Studio, which is what you will be using to view and record the camera live feed:įind out the RTSP stream link of your camera by following this guide: This guide shows you how to view and record the live feed captured by your WiFi Bird Box Camera 3rd Gen on a Windows or Mac computer.Ĭonnect your camera to your internet router:ģrd Gen WiFi bird box camera setup on Android/iOS (NCIP3WF) If the prompt didn’t appear for you when adding a display capture, navigate to your system preferences and click ‘Privacy and Security to bring up the same menu.NCIP3WF NCIP3WFALT GFIP320BWF GFIP320BWFALT NCIP3 NCIP3ALT GFWF3 GFWF3B2 GFIP3 Once you’ve unlocked the padlock, click the small box next to OBS to check it and you’re all set up for display capture! Don’t worry, OBS Studio is completely safe and reputable! This is in place to stop external software from accessing sensitive information on your system. To do this, click the lock in the bottom left-hand corner and put in your security login details. We’re going to want to check that box to allow screen recording. ![]() You’ll see that the OBS Studio logo is on the right-hand side and is greyed out. This will take you to your privacy settings. Go ahead and click ‘Open System Preferences’. When you do this, a prompt window will appear looking like this: To allow OBS these permissions, simply add a new display capture source in OBS studio by pressing the ‘+’ button under sources and choosing ‘display capture’. Unlike using OBS Studio on PC, Mac requires you to specifically give permission to the application in order to capture on-screen action. We’re going to go ahead and assume that at some point you are going to want to perform some sort of screen or window capture on your mac to show your viewers what you are doing on your screen in live-time. Step 4: Change Mac Permissions to Allow Screen Capture We’d recommend your default video location on your mac or creating a new folder called ‘OBS Recordings’ so you don’t get confused in the future! Click browse and choose the folder on your system where you would like to save all of your OBS recordings. There you will see the ‘recording path’ setting. ![]() To choose your own file path, click Settings in the bottom right-hand corner and go to the ‘Output’ tab. If you’re using OBS Studio to record video files and save them locally, it’s not uncommon to be confused about where those files get saved to. ![]() MP4 files are widely recognized as the most flexible and supported format to work with on both PC and Mac. Switch this to high quality and set your format to MP4. Any higher than this and you won’t notice any difference but it will take up more bandwidth and CPU.įor recording, your ‘Recording Quality’ will be set to Same As Stream by default. Set your encoder to Software x264 (On Mac, there should ONLY be this option available! This value is suitable for most internet speeds and streaming platforms. For streaming, make sure your bitrate is around 4500. Your output settings are going to determine the quality of your video files. ![]()
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