Greengrass V2 + Video Stream

Question

I want to build an edge video solution, that does the below at a bare minimum. I like to get some guidance on whether to use `aws-iot-greengrass-edge-connector-for-kinesis-video-stream` or `aws-streamer`. 
I run greengrass v2 on a linux box.

- Stream video to the cloud on-demand
- Store the video in a s3 bucket
- Start / Stop recording on-demand
- Local buffering of video on the device

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-iot-greengrass-edge-connector-for-kinesis-video-stream/tree/main \
https://github.com/awslabs/aws-streamer/tree/master/examples/greengrass

Answer

I would advice starting from `aws-iot-greengrass-edge-connector-for-kinesis-video-stream` which is a Greengrass V2 component and modify it to suit your additional requirements, such as the start/stop on demand (eg by using an MQTT control channel) and the S3 upload (the `aws.greengrass.StreamManager` component provides that feature OOB).

`aws-streamer` could also be used and provides some additional features in terms of video processing, but the Greengrass example is based on Greengrass v1 which has been superseded by Greengrass v2. With some work it would be possible to make a Greengrass v2 component for `aws-streamer` that does not use Lambda functions.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/greengrass/v2/developerguide/stream-manager-component.html

Greengrass V2 + Video Stream

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