is there a way to turn this into a ffmpeg stream?

[stoneobscurity]

1] is there way to turn the widescreen div area into a ffmpeg stream? something i could open up in VLC as a network stream.

2] how do i pass in the location and checkbox settings to do automated startup? querystring? conf file? docker -e configs?

[netbymatt]

1. This isn't on my roadmap
2. This is being worked in on Specify parameters in query args for kiosk/ambient display #33

[zshall]

@stoneobscurity I wanted to make a video stream too and figured out a way to get it done, though it requires some setup. Here's how I did it:

• Create a Ubuntu 22.04 virtual machine, bridged to your LAN
• Install Docker
• Get ws4kp running as a Docker image on the port of your choosing
• Install Monaserver as a Docker image on the default ports
• Install OBS Studio in the VM; set the streaming address to rtmp://localhost with stream key weather. Note that you need to install OBS from the PPA source (instructions in that link), not through the default apt package for the next steps to work properly.
• Set a base (canvas) resolution of 640x480 under OBS's video settings
• Add a Browser source that's 640x520 and point it to your ws4kp instance, e.g. http://localhost:8080
• Right click on the Browser source and select the "Interact" option. Now, use the interface to input your desired location.
• Move the Browser source down, moving the location bar out of view. Position the WeatherStar display in the center of the canvas.
• Click "Start Streaming" with Monaserver running.
• On a your target computer, open VLC or a different player that supports MP4 streaming and open http://[vm-hostname]/weather.mp4, assuming that you have Monaserver bridged to port 80.
• It should be playing!

Caveats

• If you restart OBS, it seems that the WeatherStar display scales to almost the full width and height but not quite, so you need to resize the browser source twice to fix the issue. Moving the location bar below the display (modifying the project) may help.

[Sonny-Crockett]

Awesome work @zshall!

Is it possible to use https://github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc for any part of this? I am already using it for another project and just trying to double up where I can haha.

[rmitchellscott]

@Sonny-Crockett Not exactly what you asked for, but I did create a docker container that streams the website over RTMP, and can optionally inject audio (the weatherscan tracks, for example) in via Icecast: https://github.com/rmitchellscott/pagecaster

[Sonny-Crockett]

@Sonny-Crockett Not exactly what you asked for, but I did create a docker container that streams the website over RTMP, and can optionally inject audio (the weatherscan tracks, for example) in via Icecast: https://github.com/rmitchellscott/pagecaster

Thanks! Thats awesome, I can think of SO many uses for that! I saw you mention possible Intel QSV as a long term goal. +1 for that. I use that in all my servers, so definitely something great to have in regard to performance.

[kineticman]

Check this out for a containerized version of this that exports to a .m3u for streaming. Thanks Rice!

https://github.com/rice9797/ws4channels

[netbymatt]

This has been added to the readme 91f669e