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hi, i have a foscam fi8910w.
i installed the tow apps, foscam ip camera and foscam hd, but when i tried to create a device on my vera edge ui7 i have a pop up that said devide created but there’s no device…

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Have you had any luck getting this to work? I have been trying to add a Foscam FI8910w to my VeraPlus without much luck. I think the problem is in the camera software, but haven’t been able to fully prove it yet.

In VeraPlus, I choose Add “Other IP Camera”. I then enter all the requested info, but when I click Next the page displayed says that if you don’t see an image from the camera you did something wrong… I don’t see any image. I tried some variations of the URL to the camera, for example I tried http://…/snapshot.cgi, http://…/videostream.cgi, and even tried http://…/snapshot.cgi?user=&pwd=

None of the above seem to work. In some cases, I am prompted to enter the username and password. I believe this is coming from the camera and not Vera since I can reproduce the same behavior from a browser when I don’t include the uname and password in the URL. However, when I try to enter the info in the dialog, it just loops and keeps showing the dialog. So this is what leads me to think the Foscam software is messed up and not accepting the user info from the dialog.

Unfortunately, entering the user info on the URL in the Vera setup doesn’t work although it does work on the URL in a browser.

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Did you ever get this to work?

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The best way I have found to get a 910 to work is as follows.

  1. connect the camera to your router thru Ethernet cord
  2. download IP Camera Tool from the foscam website and run
  3. you should get a window with the ip address and port of the camera
  4. double click the camera ip address and it should open a foscam utility - if the user and pw have not been modified then
    use what is printed on bottom of camera. If it has been changed then enter the new user and pw
  5. there is a list of things on the left side you should go through and add any info that is required. You will be able to tell.
  6. in this utility you can change the camera port, username and password
  7. change each of them, especially pw and port, and save and wait for it to reboot
  8. disconnect Ethernet cord and close and re-open the utility, enter new user and/or pw, you should be able to get a picture
  9. now go into the vera and follow the procedure for adding the camera as you did before
  10. add this snapshot url http://ip address:port/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=xxx&pwd=xxx
    changing the ip address, port, user and pw you entered and changed in the foscam utility
  11. add the same user and pw also in the vera area where it asks for the user and pw
  12. select next and don’t despair, not done
  13. add this line under advanced settings where it asks for the impl_file put I_FoscamPTZ.xml and save
  14. give it a minute and see if you get a picture

I hope I haven’t forgot anything I am doing this from memory. If the above snapshot url does not work then try this one entering the same info as you did the other: http://ip address:port/snapshot.cgi?user=YOURUSERNAME&pwd=YOURPASSWORD

Good Luck

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Turns out to be a bug in Vera. It’s not URL encoding, but we can work around that by URL encoding it ourselves. Instead just put:

http://[ipaddress]/snapshot.cgi%3Fuser%3D[user]%26pwd%3D[password]

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[quote=“caspe15, post:2, topic:191376”]None of the above seem to work. In some cases, I am prompted to enter the username and password. I believe this is coming from the camera and not Vera since I can reproduce the same behavior from a browser when I don’t include the uname and password in the URL. However, when I try to enter the info in the dialog, it just loops and keeps showing the dialog. So this is what leads me to think the Foscam software is messed up and not accepting the user info from the dialog.

Unfortunately, entering the user info on the URL in the Vera setup doesn’t work although it does work on the URL in a browser.[/quote]

Did you get this issue resolved? I am having the same problem.

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To be more specific, this is how I was able to make getting the picture work. First, I filled in the blanks of this and confirmed it worked in my browser:
http:///snapshot.cgi?user=&pwd=
e.g. http://10.0.0.7/snapshot.cgi?user=dude&pwd=secret

The reason that this works in the browser, but not in Vera is because Vera is a bug. It doesn’t correctly encode the URL when it uses it. Specifically it doesn’t handle ? & or = correctly. However, if we substitute the correct encodings ourselves, then it works.

http:///snapshot.cgi%3Fuser%3D%26pwd%3D
e.g. http://10.0.0.7/snapshot.cgi%3Fuser%3Ddude%26pwd%3Dsecret

I left user and password blank. Works only for photo mode and not PTZ, but at least it works a little :slight_smile:

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This URL worked great for me with a FOSCAM FI8916W. Thanks !!!

I am going to check some of the other threads and see if the pan / tilt / zoom will work.