Foscam IP Camera Plugin

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UI5/1.5.408

I have three cameras (foscam 8910s) which have been working with the vera plugin for almost a year. I have a 4th that is not added to vera. I went through add device, camera and it says something to the effect of ‘I see your three cameras, but don’t see any more’, and it will not add a new camera device. I also tried going to ‘apps, plugins, foscam’ and creating a new one. it does not make a new device.

I do have ‘auto detect devices on my home network’ unchecked.

How do I add a new foscam device?

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What happens when you try to add the camera manually?

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Recently I lost the motion detection on all FOUR of my foscam IP cameras. the motion detection still worked on the camera as i would still receive emails from the camera, however vera would not recognize when motion was detected. I found this out after my scenes that are triggered by motion from the camera quit working. after spending a few days going over all these forums i finally got it fixed. here is what i had to do

delete all the cameras from vera and uninstall the foscam plugin.
re-install the foscam plugin ver 2.5
log on to each of the cameras IP address and reset it to the FACTORY settings
once I did that and got them set up once again through my router and forwarded all the necessary ports i opened up vera and it had already recognized them.
all the cameras then showed up in vera however the motion sensors didnt…
i went in manually and changed the ConfiguredMD to “0” in the advanced tab of the cameras.
saved my changes and it reloaded and POOOF!! I was back in business…

Hope this helps someone out there save a few days of reseach and headache

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To add a new camera follow the instructions here:
http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Manually_create_IP_Camera_device

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I have recently installed a F18918W camera on to my Vera Lite network, running on beta firmware that was required to fix anther issue I had, (rt3662_Luup_ui5-1.5.532-en-mios.squashfs if that means anything to anyone)

All went well to start with but I then decide to try and delete the ?extra? camera that the Foscam plugin, v2.5, created, and not reading the warnings properly, it deleted the cameras and plugin. After this I could not get the camera to re-install until I did a factory reset on the camera. I only mention this because I saw a similar comment in this thread.

Anyhow I managed to get the camera re-installed, changed the ?ConfiguredMD? to 1, (I think), and the Foscam Motion Sensor Device was created. Looking good I thought.

I pressed ?Arm? on the Foscam Motion Sensor device but nothing happened when I waved my arm in front of the camera, expect that I got an email from the camera itself with 6 pictures attached. So the camera is detecting the motion. I continued reading this thread trying a few things but no change.

I checked parameters

var alarm_motion_armed=1;
var alarm_http=1;
var alarm_http_url=‘http://192.168.1.63:3480/data_request?id=lr_foscam_tripped&sensor_id=11’;

which match what I think they are supposed to be.

Then whilst thinking about what to do next I got a Notification email from Vera saying that there had been motion detected but I hadn’t actually triggered the camera and there was no email notification from the Camera itself.

So I waved at the camera and almost immediately the camera sent an email but nothing from Vera.
I repeated this process with the same result. At that point I decided to go to bed.

During the night Vera sent another notification but there wasn’t a matching camera email and I’m fairly sure there was no actual movement.

So I have started testing again this morning and it appears that the camera correctly sends email when motion is detected but Vera is sending notifications when nothing is happening.

Any ideas?

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I feel a bit of twit here but I have just found the problem with my alarm detection emails from Vera. It turned out that I had inadvertently left the notification has “Device is not tripped” . Once I change this to “Device is tripped” the emails from the camera and Vera appear at the same time. :-[

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Somebody know if this plug will be updated to support the new Foscam h.264 for PTZ and preset?

I can see in any case the camera in Vera.

Thank you
Matteo

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h.264 is not supported in Vera. The camera will have to support mjpeg or still shots.

  • Garrett
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Hi,

Thank’s for a great app!

However I have trouble with the foscam 8910 looses the picture in the “View” part of the app

[url=http://tinypic.com/r/2cerrc9/6]http://tinypic.com/r/2cerrc9/6[/url]

Especially when doing PTZ actions

Any idea?

Regards,
Mikael

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[quote=“miljume, post:129, topic:171931”]Hi,

Thank’s for a great app!

However I have trouble with the foscam 8910 looses the picture in the “View” part of the app

[url=http://tinypic.com/r/2cerrc9/6]http://tinypic.com/r/2cerrc9/6[/url]

Especially when doing PTZ actions

Any idea?

Regards,
Mikael[/quote]

yes, this happens intermittently, it has been discussed before: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,11151.msg79323.html#msg79323 and it looks like a problem or bug in UI5 camera view :frowning:

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Indeed, that issue is not plugin related.

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Hi, is there an update for the instructions for Plugin 2.5? I have questions about the plugin, such as the preroll option and Timeout. Also the TimeOn variable is no longer present.
Also, where are the snapshots and video being recorded to? Is this from the set up with the FTP server and recording path in the Camera’s configuration? Or can I direct Vera to set the recording locations elsewhere?

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These options are from the UI, not from the plugin.

The OnTime parameter is in the motion sensor’s Advanced tab, not it the camera’s.

The snapshots and video are stored on our servers. The location has nothing to do with the camera’s own configuration. You can’t direct Vera to store the recordings somewhere else. For this, you can use the camera’s own configuration page.

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Does anyone have an idea of when the Foscam IP Camera Plugin might be expanded to include the FI9821W (H.264) camera? The CGI/SDK for the camera has been published and it would be a very useful camera to be able to use with Vera.

Also, has anyone been able to get a FI8921W camera to show any kind of image on the Vera dashboard? If so, how did you create the device and what were the exact settings you used? I have been trying to get my FI8921W camera to interface with Vera for several weeks without any success. I have seen on the forum that a couple of users have claimed to have been able to integrate snapshots from the FI9821W camera to a Vera device, but I have not been able to duplicate their work. Any help you can give me would be appreciated.

New firmware for th FI9821W camera is supposed to be available in early February. Perhaps that will help the integration of the FI9821W with Vera.

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These options are from the UI, not from the plugin.

The OnTime parameter is in the motion sensor’s Advanced tab, not it the camera’s.

The snapshots and video are stored on our servers. The location has nothing to do with the camera’s own configuration. You can’t direct Vera to store the recordings somewhere else. For this, you can use the camera’s own configuration page.[/quote]

Ok great, thanks for the clarification. What does Timeout do?

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[quote=“silvereagle2208, post:134, topic:171931”]Does anyone have an idea of when the Foscam IP Camera Plugin might be expanded to include the FI9821W (H.264) camera? The CGI/SDK for the camera has been published and it would be a very useful camera to be able to use with Vera.

Also, has anyone been able to get a FI8921W camera to show any kind of image on the Vera dashboard? If so, how did you create the device and what were the exact settings you used? I have been trying to get my FI8921W camera to interface with Vera for several weeks without any success. I have seen on the forum that a couple of users have claimed to have been able to integrate snapshots from the FI9821W camera to a Vera device, but I have not been able to duplicate their work. Any help you can give me would be appreciated.

New firmware for th FI9821W camera is supposed to be available in early February. Perhaps that will help the integration of the FI9821W with Vera.[/quote]

Vera does not support H.264 cameras. Unless the camera can support mjpeg along side of the H.264, then integration should not be an issue. Just have to have a look over the commands for the camera to see what needs to make it work. If it also supports retrieving still shots, it should also work. I do not know if MCV will support H.264 cameras in the future.

  • Garrett
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There is new firmware for FI9821. Now you can get JPG picture. Use address http://ip address:port/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=admin&pwd=xxx

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Jukka –

I upgraded the firmware on my FI9821 and used the address you provided but I can’t get it to work. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help

Don
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Here are my settings:

Settings tab
URL: /cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=admin&pwd=xxxxx
MAC: Kamera MAC
IP address: 192.1xx.xxx.x:port number

Advanced tab
device_type: urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:DigitalSecurityCamera:2
device_file: D_DigitalSecurityCamera2.xml
imp_file: I_Foscam9821.xml (my own modification from I_FoscamPTZ.xml file, to get pan and tilt to work, not working today… have to think more)

So only picture part is working…

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[quote=“Jukka, post:139, topic:171931”]Here are my settings:

Settings tab
URL: /cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=admin&pwd=xxxxx
MAC: Kamera MAC
IP address: 192.1xx.xxx.x:port number

Advanced tab
device_type: urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:DigitalSecurityCamera:1
device_file: D_DigitalSecurityCamera1.xml
imp_file: I_Foscam9821.xml (my own modification from I_FoscamPTZ.xml file, to get pan and tilt to work, not working today… have to think more)

So only picture part is working…[/quote]

Hi Jukka

Thanks

The only difference I see so far is the device file where I am using the updated plug in for the Foscm cameras.

 Don