Livewire Recorder

Hourly WAV Files in UTC from a Livewire Multicast Stream Input

Prerequisites Livewire network PTP synchronized, ffmpeg, mediamtx ("https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx") for signal distribution Enough disk space e.g. NAS mounted

Architecture

• mediamtx for audiosignal
• Prepaired folder structure YYYY/MM/DD for ffmpeg output files
• Livewire SDP -> mediamtx->rtsp->ffmpeg-->wav file
• Filename 2026-01-12_12_00_00.wav
• Systemd control with check of required mountpoint

Mediamtx config example file with Livewire SDP source Systemd Streamervice example file

systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable recorder.service systemctl start --now recorder.service