Suggestions on livestreaming the camera feed to YouTube

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@kenzoat worked a bit on this, and I believe when he tried to follow normal setup instructions for accessing the camera, as might be expected it was already in use by the microscope app. It wasn’t exactly clear to us how we could send the stream elsewhere while still having the microscope app running. @kenzoat implemented a workaround, livestreaming a “screenshare” of the camera’s preview to YouTube. However, the Raspberry Pi will become non-responsive (no input signal at all to the monitor after moving the mouse around, etc.), often with high-temperature warnings (thermometer symbol) popping up on the RPi. The longest stream we’ve been able to have is 132 hours, though often it’s been a lot shorter. The fix has been to unplug and replug in the RPi, and set up the streaming again.

Any thoughts or suggestions on how to get a livestream of the camera feed sent to YouTube? Happy to provide more info.

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The microscope already streams the camera feed to any remote client on tbe local network. Even locally on the Pi the microscope interface is using http requests on a virtual network. That client could surely then forward it to youtube or anywhere?

There was a discussion here somewhere. I’ll try to find it.
Edit: It turns out the other thread is from @kenzoat, so the same application. Accessing the Raspberry Pi Camera Openflexure Connect video stream. And my response was the same as now :slight_smile: . On that thread @r.w.bowman had some more specific comments on implementation, but clearly you have not found that to work for you?

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Apologies for the duplicate! I missed that. I will check to see if that was tried or not.

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