Samsung IP Camera - instructions to add to Vera and bypass error message (UI7)

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I’m hoping this info helps someone out there as it’s literally taken me hours to piece this together from old posts and fiddling with the code:

I have several newish (released within the last 5 years) IP cameras from Samsung. Like many folks, I was getting the dreaded popup with the Vera controller’s IP address asking for user/pass that wouldn’t go away when I added the IP camera manually. This is what eventually worked for me (part of this is pasted from an archived message on the old forums):

First, you need to be able to find the URL that leads to an image from your current webcam. For Samsung IP Cameras, this site helps: http://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=samsung#

For my Samsung camera, it turns out the URL for my camera is (substituting the actual username and password for ‘admin’ and ‘password’ in this example:

http://admin:password@192.168.0.198:8087/cgi-bin/video.cgi?msubmenu=jpg

So, let’s say your current settings are:

Vera IP is 192.168.0.121 (Port 8087 as an example)
Camera IP is 192.168.0.198
Camera user is “admin”
Camera password is “password”
Camera image URL is /cgi-bin/video.cgi?msubmenu=jpg

Then you should use the following (substitute your own camera IP, user, password, URL):

http://192.168.0.121:3480/data_request?id=lu_action&serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=CreateDevice&deviceType=urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:DigitalSecurityCamera:2&UpnpDevFilename=D_DigitalSecurityCamera2.xml&Description=test&RoomNum=0&IpAddress=192.168.0.198&StateVariables=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:Camera1,URL=http://admin:password@192.168.0.198:8087/cgi-bin/video.cgi?msubmenu=jpg urn%3Amicasaverde-com%3AserviceId%3AHaDevice1%2CCommands%3Dcamera_full_screen%2Ccamera_archive_snapshot&Username=admin&Password=password&Reload=1

Copy the above huge link, paste it into a browser, and press Enter. It should add a ‘test’ camera device into your Vera’s list of cameras.

If you then click on the cameras section and this new device’s static camera picture still isn’t showing, click on the device and select ‘Settings’, then ‘Advanced’ then ‘Extra Parameters’. Then click the ‘Variables’ tab. Under URL, change the URL to the full URL including the http (for example in this case, edit the URL to read:

http://admin:password@192.168.0.198:8087/cgi-bin/video.cgi?msubmenu=jpg

That should work (or at least it did for me).

My cameras actually also have an mjpg video stream (?msubmenu=jpg is replaced by ?msubmenu=mjpg) but I can’t seem to get Vera to read the video for some reason… I may need play around with the camera’s codec…

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