Skill: Calibrate from RTSP Streams

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when the user wants to calibrate from live RTSP camera streams. Typical prompts:

• "calibrate RTSP streams" / "calibrate from live cameras"
• "run AMC on RTSP"
• The user provides one or more rtsp://... URLs

VIOS records fixed-duration clips from each stream, the AMC microservice ingests those clips into a project, then the workflow follows the same verification, calibration, polling, and results path as pre-recorded MP4 calibration.

Do not use this skill for local MP4 files already on disk; route those requests to skills/amc-run-video-calibration/SKILL.md. Do not use it for the bundled sample dataset; route that to skills/amc-run-sample-calibration/SKILL.md.

Never reuse files from the bundled sample dataset, extracted sample zip, assets/, or previous projects for RTSP calibration unless the user explicitly provides those paths for this RTSP scene. Similar camera names, stream counts, or cam_00/cam_01 ordering are not evidence that sample alignment, layout, GT, or detector settings apply.

Prerequisites

• AMC microservice and UI running (follow skills/amc-setup-calibration-stack/SKILL.md if needed).
• VIOS is running and reachable from the AMC microservice.
• VIOS_BASE_URL is configured in the AMC microservice environment before capture starts.
• RTSP URLs are reachable from the VIOS host.
• Camera streams have enough moving people/objects for calibration; record at least 2-3 minutes when possible.
• Python 3 with requests installed when using the bundled script.

Data Privacy

RTSP URLs may contain usernames, passwords, hostnames, or network topology. Do not print full RTSP URLs if credentials are embedded. This skill does not handle bearer credentials; if the VIOS deployment requires authentication, stop and hand the user to a manual admin-managed workflow instead of collecting or relaying secrets in chat, scripts, or logs.