Explain stream types

[WayneManion]

Add a list of allowed stream types. I thought this was valuable because the stream types are not explained in this document. I had to look in the fluidd codebase to find a list of valid values. The valid values are not the same as the options shown in the fluidd webUI.

https://github.com/fluidd-core/fluidd/blob/999ccddd1a39d6037ec6a8f34b689b0216ea592d/src/components/settings/cameras/CameraConfigDialog.vue#L86

Signed-off-by: Wayne Manion [email protected]

[bakatrouble]

I personally added a custom stream type support to Mainsail a while ago, and from I understand, Moonraker does not "allow" any specific values, it just stores a string value there for frontends to use, which could be absolutely random.

[Arksine]

@bakatrouble is correct. This available stream types are determined by the frontend and not constrained by Moonraker. It is probably best to simply direct users to the front end's documentation as is noted in the paragraph preceding the example.

[WayneManion]

I get what you're saying. It isn't Moonraker's job to tell what cameras the front ends can support.

Here is fluidd's documentation on cameras.

Here is Mainsail's camera docs.

Neither one of them documents anything about how to specify the camera settings through moonraker.conf. I don't think a user should have to dig through source code to find the list of strings needed for a particular type of camera to work. Maybe the solution is more thorough documentation of fluidd and Mainsail.

[Arksine]

I took a more detailed look at this and agree that Moonraker's documentation needs to provide more guidance here. The frontend documentation explains how to configure webcams through their interfaces, but abstracts the underlying values.

I have updated the webcam documentation to include tables for known icon and service values.

[WayneManion]

That is awesome! Thanks for the thorough and helpful documentation.

[Arksine]

Thanks. I'll go ahead and close this as resolved.