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Notes on using the Seek Scan thermal camera

My configuration: raspberry pi 4 64-bit

  1. Download, build, and install libseek-thermal
  2. Install v4l2loopback
    1.  sudo apt install v4l2loopback
  3. Make udev rule
    1. /etc/udev/rules.d/53-seek.rules
      SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="289d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0010", MODE="0666", GROUP="users"
  4. Download mediamtx
  5. Add camera to mediamtx.yml
    1. mediamtx.yml
      paths:
        cam:
          runOnInit: ffmpeg -f v4l2 -i /dev/video5 -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv444p -crf 0 -f rtsp rtsp://localhost:$RTSP_PORT/$MTX_PATH
  6. Create v4l2 device. I'm using /dev/video5
    1.  sudo modprobe v4l2loopback video_nr=5 card_label=
  7. Run seek_viewer
    1.  ./seek_viewer 
  8. Run mediamtx
    1.  ./mediamtx
  9. Open in chrome
  10. Open in VLC
    1. rtsp:192.168.1.100:8554/cam - Open in chrome android - http://192.168.1.100:8888/cam/