Webcam App to instantly view Buddy camera livestream in Core One - General discussion, announcements and releases

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CW — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:25:05 +0000

I checked that and that permission was enabled. I suspect in my case it's like @tbr-2 said, and there's a security setting on IT's end that keeps it from working.

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NickAtNight — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:33:16 +0000

I am using VLC Media Player on my computer.

It might also be 'Apple Security'. Is there something you need to turn on in settings to allow the communication?
Under settings; Privacy and Security; Local Network

RE: Webcam App to instantly view Buddy camera livestream in Core One

CW — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:49:51 +0000

That must be it, thank you. From my iPhone, I was able to ping my iPhone's IP address as well as the router's IP with 0% loss, but trying to ping the camera I get "host is down" or "no route...

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tbr — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 06:57:27 +0000

The camera and my phone are both on our Guest-WiFi network

That might be the problem. Guest WiFi networks often are configured for client isolation.

First check if you can ping it. If that doesn't work, that's the reason.

If it works, check if you can establish a TCP connection on port 554 e.g. using netcat/nc

nc -v 192.168.31.20 554
Connection to 192.168.31.20 port 554  succeeded!
# OR 
nc -v 192.168.31.20 554
nc: connectx to 192.168.31.20 port 554 (tcp) failed: Connection refused

Also double-check that the RTSP streaming is actually enabled in settings.

RE: Webcam App to instantly view Buddy camera livestream in Core One

CW — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:54:08 +0000

@tbr-2 I can't get this to work and I don't know why. I tried the VLC iPhone app initially and that didn't work. I've been trying the IP Cams app and that's not working either. The camera and my phone are both on our Guest-WiFi network (and I'm just on the other side of a wall from the camera). The camera stream IP address is 192.168.30.20, and my phone's IP at the moment is 192.168.31.21. Is there something obvious I'm missing here? I've tried port 554, port 8554, I've tried Auto protocol, TCP, UDP, HTTP, etc., and nothing has worked. I'm beginning to wonder if there's some network security thing going on.

RE: Webcam App to instantly view Buddy camera livestream in Core One

zapta — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:48:53 +0000

Thanks @tbr, this is very useful.

RE: Webcam App to instantly view Buddy camera livestream in Core One

tbr — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 07:29:14 +0000

How do you find the IP of the camera? Can you set it to be static?

Probably the simplest way is to:

if you haven't done so yet: Enable "RTSP stream on local network" from the Prusa app on your mobile device(!)
go to the "Prusa Connect" tab in Prusa Slicer
Click on the "Camera" tab within that (or the Prusa App)
scroll down the main view
Look at the bottom right below the camera picture
- If you can't see the values on the right, click on the circled "i"
Press the copy button right next to the WiFi IPv4 address

There are many other ways, but they fall into "generic networking", like looking it up via your router webui etc., but this is the simplest.

Also, does it work only from local network or across the internet line Wyze and similar.

As I already pointed out: "Obviously, this will only work as long as you are on the same network/WiFi."

There are ways to achieve this, but they go way beyond the simple scope here, as they involve additional software or hardware. As is there is no such feature and the Prusa app tells you as much too: "Streaming video via RTSP is currently only possible on the same internal network!"

Screenshots:

enable RTSP here

Prusa Slicer showing the Camera info

RE: Webcam App to instantly view Buddy camera livestream in Core One

zapta — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:26:06 +0000

How do you find the IP of the camera? Can you set it to be static?

Also, does it work only from local network or across the internet line Wyze and similar.

RE: Webcam App to instantly view Buddy camera livestream in Core One

gb160 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:51:10 +0000

Also, for any Kodi users you can just put the rtsp url in a file with the extension '.strm' and place the file anywhere where your Kodi instance can find it.

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tbr — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:42:55 +0000

Nice find! This means that it will work with any RTSP capable player/app. You could even hook it up to Zoneminder/Frigate/UniFiProtect. 😆

This might be useful as the URL scheme for some people, but make sure to replace 0.0.0.0 with the local network IP address of your BuddyCam (not the printer!)

rtsp://0.0.0.0/live

or if that doesn't work

rtsp://0.0.0.0:554/live

Obviously, this will only work as long as you are on the same network/WiFi.
(People who know how to set up a VPN and route traffic will know the advanced stuff ofc.)

I just tried with VLC and `ffplay` from `ffmpeg` and both work just fine!
Thanks again for the hint! I didn't bother checking as I expected the RTSP stream to require authentication…

edit: Now enjoying printer action on my living room 4K TV 🤣

Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline), yuvj420p(pc, bt709, progressive), 1280x720, 25 fps, 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn