Setting up Linksys WVC80N IP Camera

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Has anyone been able to setup Vera2 (using Generic IP Camera Plugin) to receive video from a Linksys IP Camera (WVC80N) streaming video in MJPEG format. I can setup for snapshots but not streaming. I’ve been following the reference at the wiki below, with no success.

http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Remote_Camera_Streaming

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To those folks who are interested.

After a few tries over the weekend, I was able to configure the camera to do snapshots and stream video content. Procedures at the wiki (http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Remote_Camera_Streaming) are a little confusing. Here is what I had to do to made it work:

Under Settings tab:
URL =/img/snapshot.cgi?size=2&quality=1
User = blank (you may need to include user & password if your camera is configure so, I don’t use user an password while testing)
Password = blank
IP Address = xx.xx.xx.xx (IP Camera address on my internal network)

Under Advanced tab:
DirectStreamingURL = /img/video.mjpeg (path to the location on your camera for mjpeg or MPEG files)
URL = /img/snapshot.cgi?size=2&quality=1 (this automatically is filled from the URL under the Settings)

So, now under “Camera Control” panel I see an snapshot and when I click “Streaming” option under the “Settings” tab I see streamed video from my Cam.

Enjoy!

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Thank you for taking the time to figure out how to enable the Linksys WVC80N IP Camera to stream video. It greatly increases the usability of the camera.

I found a couple of quirks when doing video streaming through Vera:

When using the camera in snapshot mode, you can enable lights to provide illumination for the snapshot. However, the video streaming mode does not seem to support this feature.

Also, I am having difficulty getting video streaming to work when accessing Vera from cp.mios.com via a dashboard. Video streaming works fine when I access the camera via Vera on my local network.

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I tried the light switch, and I have the same issue, light switch doesn’t go ON while streaming. But, it works very well with snapshot.

On the second issue, I have no difficultly streaming video while connected remotely via cp.mios.com. I haven’t done anything special. The only thing I missed to indicate in my instructions is that I have the attribute “embeded” (under Advance tab) checked. I don’t really think that’s your issue, but I thought I mention it here for completion.

Take a took at the following link, it references steps needed to enable streaming video remotely that may be helpful. However, I didn’t follow it.

http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Remote_Camera_Streaming