Data transfer reduction when there are no active watchers

[Pietrula]

Hi! As i am an amateur in streaming I would like to ask you for some advice. I have camera connected to internet connection 200gb per month and ant media server enterprise edition. Streaming works perfectly, but when camera is connected data is sent all the time even when no one is watching. As we have this data transfer limitation could you advice how to turn on camera only when users are watching and when there are no active users reduce data transfer? Step by step guidance would be a blessing!:) thank you in advance!

[Murat Aydin]

There is no such feature on server side, but it is a good feature candidate. You could create a github issue in Ant Media Server's github repo about it.

There is stream start/stop and view count REST APIs also.You could do a custom development that manages this.

Best regards,

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Murat AYDIN

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Senior Software Engineer

[Sean Valentine]

We have a very similar need for our Ant Media Server.

We used the REST API to create Start and Stop methods.

I'm not sure how you've implemented Ant Media but we have a very simple setup.

1) When a user loads a stream they want to view we send a call to the camera to "wake" the connection up - http://127.0.0.1:5080/LiveApp/rest/v2/broadcasts/950001958569181555675902/start

2) Because we save the stream id to the page settings per camera we can check the broadcast stats to see if there is a viewer watching the stream. We currently use a custom seperate API service that loops every one minute and then calls the following call. The loop is on a 

background thread. [GET]http://127.0.0.1:5080/LiveApp/rest/v2/broadcasts/950001958569181555675902/broadcast-statistics

3) The background thread continues to loop until all viewers have stopped viewing the stream.
4) We then call the stop function to break the connection and stop data being wasted  http://127.0.0.1:5080/LiveApp/rest/v2/broadcasts/950001958569181555675902/stop

at the very most we may waste a couple of minutes of Data but it allows us to let our customers see live streams without having to purchase very expensive "unlimited" mobile broadband tariffs.
I hope that helps, without knowing how you implement your design i can't help much more. I use Microsoft Azure to host Ant Media, a seperate server for the my web application and then use WEB Api to send and get API Calls from Ant Media Server.

On Thursday, 20 February 2020 08:44:43 UTC, Pietrula wrote:

Hi! As i am an amateur in streaming I would like to ask you for some advice. I have camera connected to internet connection 200gb per month and ant media server enterprise edition. Streaming works perfectly, but when camera is connected data is sent all the time even when no one is watching. As we have this data transfer limitation could you advice how to turn on camera only when users are watching and when there are no active users reduce data transfer? Step by step guidance would be a blessing!:) thank you in advance!

[Pietrula]

Thank you!!