Foscam C1 instructions and other stuff (was Re: Video Cameras new with RTSP)

Wed May 18 16:56:33 EDT 2016

I could not for the life of me get the snapshot url to work. It is still a
rstp:// url so no way to make it work as a jpeg refresh. But then I
remembered I'm also using ZoneMinder so I added this cameras rstp address
and the accessed the ZoneMinder url with the snapshot as an http://
address. I get jpeg snapshots. Now I will try to see if my belt and
suspenders setup works inside of XTension later.

Thanks,
Jeff
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:30 PM Jeff Wooding <Jeff at qualitytubandtile.com>
wrote:

> Ok the stream works with QuickTime7 just fine. The  Cameras are JOOAN
> Model# JA-703ERC-T.
> Live stream = rtsp://
> 192.168.0.21:554/user=admin_password=admin_channel=1_stream=0.sdp?real_stream
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 5:40 AM James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:
>
>> Foscam C1 has a non-standard rtsp stream and is only playable in VLC at
>> the moment. I have done some experimenting with the VLC libraries and may
>> be creating a VLC powered camera object in VP in the future. There are some
>> serious pains with that though, it leaks memory like a sieve, you can’t
>> include the libraries in your binary but can only link to them already
>> installed on the persons computer and possibly other licensing issues that
>> I’ll have to sort out.
>>
>> For now you can get to the Foscam C1 camera with a JPEG refresh cam in
>> VP, use the path like this:
>>
>>
>> http://[theCamIP]:88/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=[yourUser]&pwd=[YourPassword]
>>
>> and obviously if you’ve changed the port then you’ll have to change that
>> in the link too.
>>
>> Make sure to also fill in the user and password into those fields in the
>> setup window even though you also have to include them in the path.
>>
>> The next version of VP will have support for the motion and sound sensing
>> capabilities of recent foscam cameras directly, so you’ll definitely want
>> to set that up with the C1 cam as it works great with that. It should work
>> with any foscam camera running a recent firmware update. I forget the
>> actual version of the API that I’m using from them, but I’ll have that info
>> when I do the release.
>>
>> In general anything that works in the quicktime 7 player should work in
>> the RTSP camera object in VP.  NOT the most recent quick time player! Apple
>> removed all the old quicktime stuff from it in either yosemite or El
>> Capitan, I think the earlier one. It will not only play http streams, which
>> apple claims are better anyway and actually are, but I’ve yet to see an IP
>> camera that used one. So for the moment I’m actually linking in an older
>> version of quicktime so that I can continnue to use it’s RTSP abilities.
>> This is not a long term solution, so i’ll be figuring out what to do about
>> VLC or other options in the near future. If you haven’t saved the quicktime
>> 7 player on your machine to experiment with let me know, I may be able to
>> send it to you.
>>
>> Jeff, if you can find the snapshot link for those other cameras you’re
>> using then you can setup a JPEG refresh for them too. If you send me the
>> detailed info on the cam I’ll try to look it up for you later on. VP really
>> shouldn’t be processing full speed RTSP or ONVIF streams anyway, it’s for
>> generating just a few frames a second for display in XTEnsion and adding to
>> views and recording time lapse when things happen. If you want to view the
>> cam in HD at the full frame rate then use the built in interface or mobile
>> app from the company directly. It takes a HUGE amount of CPU resources to
>> manage an HD streaming session, but very few to just grab a picture from
>> the camera 2 or 3 times a second and process that.
>>
>> The current VP version has some bugs in it when creating new streams and
>> creating those control unit in XTension. If you hit them you may have to
>> restart VP twice before they actually show up and work properly in
>> XTension. I’ll have that fixed this week too.
>>
>> If there are random characters inserted into this email it’s because for
>> some reason little tiny spiders keep walking across my keyboard and I have
>> to keep smashing them and adding random letters ;) With the attic all
>> sealed up now we should be having fewer bugs, but the ones that were
>> already in there can’t get out and are coming down inside to cause me
>> distraction ;) Renovation is a pain in every part of the anatomy for
>> reasons you never imagined ;) But we’re almost done!
>>
>>
>> On May 16, 2016, at 2:57 PM, Jeff Wooding <Jeff at qualitytubandtile.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Howdy Ard,
>> Yes Securityspy and VLC work fine but I would like XTension to handle all
>> the recording and Archiving if possible.
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:52 AM ard jonker <ard.jonker at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> hi Jef, did you give security spy (trial) a go?
>>> works with my foscam stream...
>>> Just to figure out if the stream is working.
>>>
>>> ard
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> > On 16 May 2016, at 04:43, Jeff Wooding <Jeff at qualitytubandtile.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > It appears to be the same problem as the Foscam C1. The stream is not
>>> visible in QuickTime Player. Is there any way to get these to work?
>>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>  James
>>
>>
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