topic Re: Operations Dashboard live video streaming in ArcGIS Dashboards Questions

Operations Dashboard live video streaming

Rey_A_Santiago — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:47:54 GMT

We are researching the operations dashboard for emergency management purposes. One of the questions we have is it possible to embed a live video feed from a UAV (DJI Drone) into a dashboard? If so, are there specific streaming services you use? Has anyone embedded live streaming through Microsoft Teams or Microsoft Stream?

Re: Operations Dashboard live video streaming

DerrickWestoby — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:18:30 GMT

Using Litchi [edit: Sorry, DJI Go...not Litchi], I was able to stream from a DJI drone (using the RTMP option) to a Twitch channel, just as a proof of concept.

I embedded the twitch video stream in an operations dashboard and it worked "fine". For this to really be effective, in my opinion, I needed to find a streaming service that supports webhook events on stream start. My workaround for this was to have the pilot submit a Survey123 form that's basically a "starting stream" event with a lat/lon and a project number. The project number can be filtered to specific dashboards and auto-zoom to the location when starting a stream using the lat/lon, and the survey submission supports webhooks for notifications.

Again, it's not really a professional implementation, but it's a decent start. We don't have much of a need for live streaming though.

Re: Operations Dashboard live video streaming

Rey_A_Santiago — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:23:09 GMT

Thanks for your reply. Which DJI drone are you flying?

Re: Operations Dashboard live video streaming

DerrickWestoby — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:31:08 GMT

Primarily the P4p nowadays. 3DR, Sensefly & Custom pixhawks in the past.

Re: Operations Dashboard live video streaming

DerrickWestoby — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:45:29 GMT

By the way, what you're talking about is exactly what got me in to drones 5 or 6 years ago. I was a full time FF/EMT and wanted to stream video to our dispatch center when we got called out to rural field fires. I'd hoped to work with "Active911" to develop a solution.