Livewire Recorder

Audio Recorder with hourly WAV files from a Livewire Multicast Stream Input with an integrated folderkeeper

Prerequisites

• Livewire network synchronized,
• mediamtx ("https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx") for signal distribution,
• ffmpeg, ntp (ntpsec, chrony)
• Enough disk space e.g. NAS

Architecture

• mediamtx for audiosignal
• Prepaired folder structure ../%Y/%m/%d/ e.g. ../2026/01/01/ for ffmpeg output files
• Livewire SDP -> mediamtx->rtsp->ffmpeg-->wav file
• Filename %Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.wav e.g. 2026-01-12_12_00_00.wav
• Systemd control with check of the required mountpoint

Example files

• Mediamtx config example file with Livewire SDP source
• Systemd recorder service example file