Great news about the progress.
Regarding RTSP or a way to get the stream to another server, I believe other people are working on the same problem, but I do not have an answer at the moment. For example, @Yu_You was asking about this. I believe he moved from the RTSP plug-in to the USB cable with libuvc (the technique in this thread). I do not know if he was then able to use something like gst-rtsp-server to get the stream to another computer.
@Hugues is quick far along using the Janus Gateway to get rtp output on IP networks. I don’t know how busy he is, but if your firm is working on a big project, it might be worthwhile to consider trying to hire him as a consultant. He’s using his FOX SEWER ROVER in production and he’s been freely contributing his knowledge to this group.
Another interesting transmission project is the Lockheed Martin Amelia Drone by @Jake_Kenin, @sjm7783 and others.
There is more information on their project here.
As some of them were in undergraduate school before COVID-19 shut down their project, it might be possible to hire some of the team members as interns.
I’m trying to connect people in parallel to sharing whatever I know because there has been a surge of activity around live streaming and USB camera control, likely due to a maturation of technologies and the increase in demand for remote surveillance and analysis.
There seems like many people are working on foundational knowledge such as transmitting data to a remote server running gscam.
I don’t have ros installed.
Are you saying that you can’t get gscam working on the same computer that the THETA is plugged into with a USB cable.? The documentation examples are using /dev/video*. What is the error message?
Are you using ROS Noetic (Ubuntu 20.04) or ROS Melodic (Ubuntu 18.04) or something else? I’m likely gong to install ROS at some point in the future and test basic camera functionality.