Wi-Fi Camera Streaming from OpenWRT

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello!
I have wifi-camera which can only stream data to android application or SD-card. Can I use OpenWRT to stream data from this camera to Youtube, for example, or to local network or to some online video archive?

Now my OpenWRT instance in working on x86 platform (so, video stream processing is not a problem) but it has no wifi, yet I have usb-wifi dongle which I connected to this X86_OpenWRT_Instance of mine and system recognized it: "new high-speed usb device number 3 using ehci-pci"

I believe my algorithm of actions is:

  1. Set Up Wi-Fi dongle drivers or somehow let OS know that it is Wi-Fi device
  2. Set Up OpenWRT to register in same already existing Wi-Fi network with WiFi Camera and recieve signal from Wi-Fi Camera device
  3. Set Up OpenWRT to stream data from Wi-Fi camera device to LAN or YouTube or Online Video Archive

And this is where I ask for your directions, fellow OpenWRT users!

P.S. I guess I must install motion? https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/hardware/video/webcam
Also I must install nginx server if I want to stream to some webpage?

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start by figuring out if camera will actually let you stream via wifi, without the app.

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I just do not know how to find it out. Here is similar camera model. https://aliexpress.ru/item/1005003693394525.html?sku_id=12000033704649193&spm=a2g2w.productlist.search_results.5.255625bewiI52U
It is onvif standard and some buyer in comments stated that camera even has some kind of web interface with root/camera credentials.

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neither do we, at least you own the camera, we don't ...
I'm sure google works just as well for you, as it does for us.

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ok, thanks. Can you tell some directions on installing and using USB-WiFi Dongle I have? I need to install some additional packages? Change some configs for sure? Here is markings of my Wi-Fi Dongle: DWA-131. I believe it is D-link DWA-131

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start by installing DWA-131 usb wifi adapter not recognizing in RPI4 - #6 by AndrewZ.

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And the ONVIF protocol would provide e.g. a RTSP stream (usually low resolution called sub and higher res main steam).

This app provides those URLs with a copy/paste feature once successfully logged in:

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Many thanks!

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