New Foscam HD Fi9820W Cameras

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I have the Foscam Fi8910 Cameras that work fine in my system but now I am upgrading them to the new HD Fi9820W camera’s and I cannot get them to configure. Is there a trick to this or is this camera not supported yet? Let me know. I have followed everything in the guides and I still get “Camera Not Responding” even though the Fi8910’s are working. Any help would be greatly appreciated as these new cameras are definitely a big step up in clarity and detail. :o

Thanks,
Brett

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A quick search on the forum brought up a few threads about this camera. I do not believe it is supported. Others are having issues integrating the camera and my understanding is that h.264 is not supported in vera.

  • Garrett
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You can view the FI9820W through Vera but features like pan and tilt and motion sensing won’t work. The H.264 cameras run a completely different software system then the MJPEG cameras.

Set-up the FI9820W just like you had your FI8910W with two changes:

  1. Instead of using “snapshot.cgi” as the URL use “tmpfs/snap.jpg” in the URL field.
  2. Change the ConfiguredMD field to -1. This tells Vera to disable the motion sensor (it doesn’t affect the motion settings in the Camera itself). If a seperate motion sensor was created for the camera, just go ahead and delete it.

You could technically remove I_FoscamPTX.xml from the impl_file field since the Foscam plug-in isn’t actually being used by this camera. I leave it attached in the hopes that someone with more skills and knowledge than me will get the plug-in working with Foscams H.264 line cameras. ;D

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Linking to the plug-in board (with MCV statement).

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But the archive function and remote or trough 3rd app view is working?

Thank you
Matteo