Image on FI9805W, but no motion sensor

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Hi,

I’m, like many it seems, struggling to get my FI9805W functioning properly with the Vera Lite. After some effort, I managed to get a life feed from the camera on the Vera. I did this by going to APPS > DEVELOP APPS > create device. I filled in the fields with info a combined from numerous threads here.

The thing I can’t get to work is the motion sensor. I checked several threads on this forum, but it just doesn’t add up. First of all, I have the Foscam Plugin version 2.6. This should give me a variable State in my camera device, but I just don’t have it on any of the tabs(it should be on advanched from what I’ve understood.)

Can anyone help me to get some progress on the motion sensor?

Summary:

[ol][li]Installed Foscam Plugin 2.6[/li]
[li]Added the camera via apps, like described[/li]
[li]Looked for the “State” variable, which I don’t seem to have[/li][/ol]

Any help is appreciated.

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[quote=“carnifex, post:1, topic:184018”]Hi,

I’m, like many it seems, struggling to get my FI9805W functioning properly with the Vera Lite. After some effort, I managed to get a life feed from the camera on the Vera. I did this by going to APPS > DEVELOP APPS > create device. I filled in the fields with info a combined from numerous threads here.

The thing I can’t get to work is the motion sensor. I checked several threads on this forum, but it just doesn’t add up. First of all, I have the Foscam Plugin version 2.6. This should give me a variable State in my camera device, but I just don’t have it on any of the tabs(it should be on advanched from what I’ve understood.)

Can anyone help me to get some progress on the motion sensor?

Summary:

[ol][li]Installed Foscam Plugin 2.6[/li]
[li]Added the camera via apps, like described[/li]
[li]Looked for the “State” variable, which I don’t seem to have[/li][/ol]

Any help is appreciated.[/quote]

I didn’t get a motion sensor created either; hmmm. It took a LOT of fiddling to get my Foscam cameras to work properly with Vera (that URL is tricky); I still don’t have Pan or Tilt (I use the Home preset).

It would be VERY helpful to utilize the camera motion sensor in Vera; today they take a pic when they sense motion, and Email it to me; works perfectly. Unfortunately, Vera is unaware. I use LUUP code (wget as I recall) to enable and disable the motion sensor in the camera.

Could someone that has a Vera motion sensor setup with a Foscam working, please post all the settings carefully for us? We may need to create the device manually?

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Bump?

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I do not think it is possible to have a motion sensor for that camera.

What did you put in URL in the device field ? I had to delete mine as it was not working properly, and now cannot get it to work again. I guess the URL field is the culprit…

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[quote=“mikee123, post:4, topic:184018”]I do not think it is possible to have a motion sensor for that camera.

What did you put in URL in the device field ? I had to delete mine as it was not working properly, and now cannot get it to work again. I guess the URL field is the culprit…[/quote]

You are right; most of my time was spent in the Foscam API documentation. Here is the URL:

cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=username&pwd=password

Just replace the username and password strings for the actual values.

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Ok that’s the one I have been using without success. It works on my other Foscam (different model). Very strange.

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Work the problem talking to the camera from a browser only; leave Vera out of it. Once you have the camera responding to the URL, you are ready to work the Vera side of things :-).

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Yes I tried that, and it doesn’t work in the browser. Have to look at the browser and try to work it out when I am on my home network. Something is not right…