MDVR's On Traccar
There is recent development on Traccar that supports JimiIoT dashcams. You could check that out.
We already had video files support. And video streaming is coming in next release.
Great, Anton. Will that include the main suppliers like Howen, Streamax, Dahua, etc.? Will it use the CMS Media Server?
Video streaming is implemented natively from scratch. There's no need for some other server.
That is great Anton. For the current support for the video files how do we get them into the platform now, as I do not see any MDVR's listed in the devices list.
For files if they're uploaded as part of events, you will get corresponding even in Traccar with the file attached.
Just a thought, it would be nice to support s3 storage in the future. So media the files can be stored on object storage
You can easily mount S3 for media storage. You don't need any Traccar side support for that.
True, just that using the native API/sdk's is easier to manage and get signed urls.
Also manageability wise (I may be wrong) I believe many Object storage providers have storage limits per bucket and that means I'll have to mount additional s3 and manage those manually vs. programtically... If we use API.
Currently in my case for media folder I wrote a script to push files to an external s3 as I use traccar only for backend.
Not sure how it makes it easier to manage. I think you need to elaborate a bit.
I have not tried mounting before, however based on what I read, I think mounting don’t fully support S3 semantics, and advanced features (e.g., lifecycle management or secure sharing) I think it requires additional tools.
Native S3 support in Traccar would provide more flexibility and allow users to easily manage storage, retention, meta-data and access as data scales.
Basically the file/media management can be offloaded to S3 if natively implemented without implementing additional tools.
Vehicle videos are pretty much the norm these days. Is there any thinking around having a video extension for traccar?