Change stream resolution based on LAN or WAN access

[JPElectron]

I see under the advanced button there are options for stream quality, which is nice, but when my phone is at home on the wireless LAN I'd like the quality to always be "best" whereas if the phone is on the cellular network, then default to medium or low (to save bandwidth, and for speed)

It should be easy enough to determine if the access is from the LAN based on referring IP being a private address, and assumed to be external/WAN access if the referring IP is the default gateway (router IP) or any non-private IP.

[ryan]

Hi JPElectron,

Thanks for the request. There are many improvements we'd like to make around remote access and we've been discussing items like this one recently.

One question if you don't mind - Given that remote access streams are important to you, how much free CPU do you have on your system, and how much of a hit there would you be willing to take in exchange for additional features in this regard? As an example, video encoding is a very very expensive operation - if you were to connect from both a 'low bandwidth' and 'high bandwidth' viewer at the same time you would at minimum be doubling the cpu required to provide that stream.

[RottenMutt]

I'm in the process of switching to SH, I don't know about most people but my machine will be a dedicated machine; so the answer would be ALL THAT IT NEEDS. I would also be willing to buy a high end nNidia card with support for Cuda or OpenCL.
Side note, cuda would be a perfect fit for motion/people detection processing.

[ryan]

At this time Sighthound Video doesn't require any GPU acceleration, though you're correct that GPUs are great for CV and we certainly use them for many of our more intensive algorithms.

As to the original topic of this thread we've done a lot of work in this area in the past several months that should be making its way out soon.

[visionik]

Hi JPElectron -

You may be happy to find that Sighthound Video 5.0 dynamically adjusts the streaming bitrate in both the Sighthound web interface and iOS / Android apps now. It works just like YouTube, it streams at a lower resolution / rate initially, and quickly ramps up to the fastest quality your connection can support. If your connection degrades for any reason, Sighthound will also automatically reduce resolution / rate to match, and then go back up in resolution/rate again if it improves.

[tallrob]

That's great news thanks for pointing it out.

Hi JPElectron -

You may be happy to find that Sighthound Video 5.0 dynamically adjusts the streaming bitrate in both the Sighthound web interface and iOS / Android apps now. It works just like YouTube, it streams at a lower resolution / rate initially, and quickly ramps up to the fastest quality your connection can support. If your connection degrades for any reason, Sighthound will also automatically reduce resolution / rate to match, and then go back up in resolution/rate again if it improves.