Q-See / Night Owl DVR setup working

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I’ve got a cheapo chinese DVR by Q-See. It is the same as many other brands, such as Night Owl which is sold at Harbor Freight.

Using the generic camera plugin, the following works on my Q-See 414 4-channel DVR.

Grab jpg URL in a browser:
http://x.x.x.x:9472/stillimg1.jpg

URL field in camera settings (increment the last # for the next input):

/stillimg1.jpg

IP Address field in camera settings:

x.x.x.x:9472

No user/pw is required…just the two above entries.

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Sorry on relying to an old thread but this is just what I am trying to do. I want to just grab still images

I have the QSee QS408 DVR. I have it on 3 ports, one for the normal webpage interface, the other 2 for media and smartphone interface.

I tried the URL format you showed, but only a “x” image came back. I used the webpage port for this. The other two ports gave errors.

Also not sure what you mean by generic camera plugin.

Any help is appreciated.

John

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Hi,

The ‘generic ip camera plugin’ is this one:

http://www.micasaverde.com/list-of-apps.php

Click the plus on mios market in UI4 and add it.

Does this…
Grab jpg URL in a browser:
http://x.x.x.x:9472/stillimg1.jpg

…give you an image snapshot?

4

Ok got it, but no http://x.x.x.x:9472/stillimg1.jpg doesn’t produce an image. It may be that this model of the QSee doesn’t store still images.

5

Look around here:

http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/q_see_hack/messages

This is where I found the answer for my model. Let us know if you get it figured out.

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http://x.x.x.x:9472/stillimg1.jpg

7

Anyone figured out how to get still images from the Qsee qt428 yet? I see a post on the yahoo groups about ftp-ing the files to another server, which I can absolutely do, but I don’t see any options in the dver setup for ftp.

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Not the same brand but I had to set up port forwarding on my router to see my JVC still images.

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Yes i have tried that. I dont think still images are availablee via http. Just via email. There has been some work donewith the linux zone minder application. I tried that and not working with my dvr. The forum says that it is working with the 500 series dvr and some other brand that woot sometimes sells. I have a 400 series. I posred for help on the zone minder forum and will see where that goes.

I also tried using the linux open source motion project but that does not seem to connect to my dvr either.