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

Thu May 19 03:05:20 EDT 2016

Yipee! It works, the rtsp stream. It was an authentication problem. I used
ONVIF device manager to get the stream path and the also inputed the user
and pass in the boxes the password is hashed or something in the stream so
it is different than the dialog box password. But it works! I also like
that I  have them in Zoneminder with a mobile app to view. Now time to make
these work the way I want.

So for a $36 dollar camera with 2MP and 1080P these are not to shabby. The
main draw back this model is not POE so they need a POE breakout cable to
12V and Ethernet.

here is the amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/703ERC-T-Updated-Megapixel-Surveillance-Security/dp/B013OGSOYU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1463641285&sr=8-2&keywords=jooan+ip+camera&tag=w50d-20

Thanks,
Jeff

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:56 PM Jeff Wooding <Jeff at qualitytubandtile.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>>
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