Is there a way to feed an mp4 file instead of a live camera for testing and async workflows?

[rsheptolut]

Hey, just a noob here and trying to figure out this workflow - my camera sends clips to my FTP server whenever it detects motion, wirelessly. I don't want it constantly streaming video to Viseron, only when motion is detected. So I wanted to make it really simple - watch a folder and whenever a new file appears (and stops growing in size) - feed it to Viseron to run detections and let it decide if it's interesting or not, recognize objects, animals, faces, etc. Is there a way to use Viseron that way without connecting to a live stream?

Also this would be handy for testing so I assume you've done this already - feed it an mp4 file with known objects and events, to tweak settings and achieve desirable level of positive and negative detections.

[iddu0]

Maybe just make a simple RTSP server that just plays that mp4 on loop? There must be a way to do something like that..

[roflcoopter]

There is no easy way to do this sadly. As @iddu0 says you can pobably get creative with the raw_command config option to read the MP4 file but the tricky part is to trigger on its arrival.

Does your camera av ONVIF? I plan on adding support for ONVIF events like motion detection soon and i guess that could be used as a trigger