IPCAM software ?

[Adrian Brentnall]

HI Folks Just got a shiny new IP-CAM - nice little indoor/outdoor daytime/IR unit (apparently a Foscom clone - badged DBPower - eBay special).

Works grand on a wired connection to my LAN Also works fine via its wireless connection, talking to the Netopia router / ADSL box

Comes with its own 'viewer' software - works well enough.

What I really, really, want is to have the camera connected to some sort of simple 'motion sensing' monitoring software so that it can collect photos over time & I can review them later.

I can't seem to get the camera to talk to any of the freebie / demo s/w packages I've downloaded. From a browser, I can see it at http://192.168.1.8:99/index1.htm- but the monitoring packages can't see it.

Not my specialist subject - but has anybody else been here & knows what I need to do to make it work - or can recommend some free or cheap monitoring software that'll talk to an IP-CAM

Thanks Adrian

[Nitro®]

I use MJPEG

and it works, only downside is no audio capture.

[Adrian Brentnall]

> Freeware and it works, only downside is no audio capture.

Thanks for that - nice fast download! Seems it won't talk to my camera, though.... ...there's a common thread here

I can't understand why I can see the camera output in a browser, but plugging the same address into monitoring packages doesn't work.

Baffled! Adrian

[John Williamson]

Maybe your firewall's blocking the programs from using port 99 on the IP address you're using, but leaving it clear for the browser?

Alternatively, the monitoring programs may be set to a port different to the one the camera's set to.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Now that depends on what the webcam is actually delivering.

what you may find is that te live video is 'wrapped' in a web page, and the software can't understand that.

Do a 'view source' on the page and see if you can identify the actual live video URL

And let me know..I am after something very similar meself.

[Adrian Brentnall]

>>>>>>>> Freeware and it works, only downside is no audio capture.

Hi Well - the actual source, as seen in a webpage, looks like this

http://192.168.1.8:99/videostream.cgibut you can't log into that address from a browser (if that makes any sense)

If you navigate to http://192.168.1.8:99then you get redirected to http://192.168.1.8:99/index1.htm - which includes various login options for ActiveX (IE) / Server Push (FF / Chrome) or Snap Motion (Cellphone Browser) modes.

There's a piece of the jigsaw missing somewhere!....

Annoying - 'cos it was very impressive to see when I switched off the office lights at bedtime and the camera went into IR/B&W mode.....

Camera's fine, just can't get the darn monitoring s/w to talk to it, and even the monitor software supplied with the camera won;t connect to it. Grrr!

[The Natural Philosopher]

It may well do from where you stand, but that's not an IP address the world can see.

aye you need to write some CURL stuff and grab the raw data that way and then pass it to the clever software.

[whisky-dave]

I have that sort of setup but I use a Mac and evocam I have a swann wireless I/P Cam. So maybe no use on a PC.

$30you need to check your cameras supported.

I used it to monitor my catflap...

.8:99/index1.htm

[Steve Firth]

Adrian Brentnall wrote: [snip]

Have you tried Zoneminder? It should do what you want.

[Adrian Brentnall]

Is that Linux-only ? - it's a Windows application I'm looking for (sorry - should have said!)

Adrian

[Owain]

It /appears/ Camwiz works with Foscom:

Foscam cameras JPEG: snapshot.cgi?user=3Dadmin&pwd=3Dadmin

MJPEG: videostream.cgi?user=3Dadmin&pwd=3Dadmin

30 day trial, costs about =A320 after that

Owain

[dave]

I use

ok - and you can settup a mask to make areas of the screen insensitive to movement detection (else any movement trigs the record mode). I few strange things once (long while back -) like green wash over image. I think it was sorted out as a driver update. Oh - have to pay to reg. it -but there is a free demo.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian Brentnall saying something like:

I use ActiveWebCam - worked with everything I've thrown it at so far,

[Adrian Brentnall]

Told the software that the IP-CAM was a Foscom - and it's looking good.....

Thanks

Adrian

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian Brentnall saying something like:

No problem. AWC is really versatile in its abilities - I've not set up remote web storage yet, but I will at some point.

[Adrian Brentnall]

Yes - good bit of software. Just one funny - and I'm thinking it's camera / network related...

I was imagining that I could just take mains to the camera and power it up, and it'd start working 'wirelessly'.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case. It seems to need a physical network connection at power-up, but once it's had that it's then happy if you unplug the net cable and run it wirelessly.

I had ambitions to run the camera off a dryfit battery and see what's going on around 'the estate' overnight - but if it needs connection to a network cable to get it up & running then it's a bit of a pain...

The wireless network is courtesy of the (Eircom) Motorola Netopia router, is there likely to be something I should tweak on that box, do you think ?

Thanks Adrian

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian Brentnall saying something like:

Umm.. dunno. I have that box but don't use wireless on that.

[Steve Firth]

Yes

It would be really good to drop that requirement. If you intend to monitor video long term a cheap Linux box, say a dual core Atom, will consume little power and allow 24/7 operation.

[Adrian Brentnall]

I did have a play a few weeks/months ago with a couple of flavours of Linux - (with help from the folks in the n/g), and I wasn't impressed enough to go further with it.

My hope was that it/they (Ubuntu was one)could be installed on this windows box, and would be able to find hardware, internet & so on - but, in the end, neither of the distros could talk to the web, and once of them couldn't find the LAN - so that was that...

It's more of a short-term 'on a whim' video monitoring application. So far we've established that the rat-bait in the woodpile is being taken /eaten by the darn magpies, rather than a massive infestation of rats - so that's a result. All we need now is to find something that'll do away with the magpies - as they seem to thrive on rat-bait!

There's always another challenge!

[Huge]

I find an ounce of no.9 lead shot doing 1200 fps seems to do the trick.