Sinocam Ip Camera

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I have (probably mistakenly) bought a Sinocam 1mp ip camera which I am trying to get to work in UI7 (Vera Plus) :-

(http://www.ebay.fr/itm/400834601610?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT)

It doesn’t quite seem to work and I can’t find much on the forum to help.

I set it up as a generic IP Camera and it is an Onvif P2P camera so it should work shouldn’t it?

The path (as per iSpy programme where it works) is rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.0.9/11 and I have the RTSP port set to 554
Is the problem RTSP?

Can anyone help me please?

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Unfortunately you did not provide the exact model of that Sinocam. As although all support rtsp, some have different paths than others. The rtsp URL needs to have the correct path for Vera to be able to see the image. the path varies from /11 via /ucast/11 and /ucast/12 to /videostream.asf?user=[USERNAME]&pwd=[PASSWORD]&resolution=32&rate=0. Sinocam does not appear to use encrypted credentials.

If you have a Windows PC, I suggest to download the VLC program as it makes a great test bed for rtsp: URL’s to see if you get an image. Far quicker than trying in Vera.

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Thank you for the reply.
It is a 1mp ip camera model IPC-8107S-WI-EU to give it it’s sunday name.

I get a stream in VLC and ISpy etc using rtsp://usernam:password@192.168.0.9/11 and rtsp://usernam:password@192.168.0.9/ucast/11. but I haven’t managed to get either to work directly in Vera.

Tech support says
“The Vera controller can handle the RTSP only for our own cameras (Vistacam 700 and Vistacam 1100).
To integrate a 3rd party camera with Vera it must support the MJPEG protocol and must have a way to snapshot a still or .jpg image.We have in plan to add support for other IP cameras in the future (like yours), but I don?t have an ETA on this.”

However, I have trialled using Blue Iris plug-in instead and this works very well, and the camera can even be seen in the Imperihome app. Downside of this is the need to have a PC running all the time with blue iris but does have the advantage of leaving the “burglar alarm” side to Vera and the “video surveillance” side to Blue Iris.

I even suceeded in getting Blue Iris to trip a scene in Vera with a batch file with :-
c:\yourdirectoryhere\wget64.exe “http://192.168.0.3:49451/data_request?id=lu_action&output_format=xml&serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=RunScene&SceneNum=7”

Clearly rtsp video stream can be done directly in Vera but it needs someone with more knowledge than me.

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I’ve switched to Blue Iris a few years back for my video cameras for the simple reason of having a far wider range of supported camera’s and far more options and configurability

I really don’t mind leaving a box on all day as it also runs my media server and the Mary TTS server. Power usage is around 70W when used and less than 11W when idling. This Lenovo TS140 is also dead quiet. I have to look at the power LED to know if it’s running as I have BI record to an SSD.