Vivotek IP7361 & IP8362 Setup / Help

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Hello -

Loving MCV, it is wonderful. However, now I have my cameras here, and I know my IP cameras from Vivotek are compatible with MCV (using UI5). However, I have tried nearly everything possible to get MCV to add the cameras. It continuously says “Unable to get image from your camera.”

I have tried all sorts of variations I have read on these forums from cgi-bin/viewer/video.jpg to cgi-bin/video1.jpg.

I am using Generic IP Camera selection.

I am able to view my camera and its feed by going to the URL it has been assigned.

I have not set up DDNS yet for the camera, would that be the reason why MCV doesn’t find it?

There have been replies on other Vivotek threads where someone says “Just add in cgi-bin/viewer/video.jpg” but doesn’t say where to add it… then people say “okay that worked” but there is no further explination.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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@NTMock, previously I have had good luck looking in the Zoneminder forums or wiki for settings for still images / mjpeg streams. Unfortunately, I don’t see anything about your two specific cameras, but maybe you could ask in their forums.

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Vivotek

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/

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For anyone who encounters this problem in the future, I will be the first one to confirm and explain what I did to make the Vivotek cameras work.

As per the comments on this thread → http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,10599.msg73709.html#msg73709

I did the following:

Apps → Develop Apps → Create Device

Enter the Following Info:
Device Type: urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:DigitalSecurityCamera:1
Internal ID: (Blank)
Descrition:
Upnp Device Filename: (Blank)
Upnp Implementation Filename: (Blank)
IP Address: (Ex. 192.168.1.200:8080)
MAC: (Blank)
Room: <Select/Associate if you already have the room created>
Parent Device: (Blank)

Select “Create Device”, “Device Created” message should appear with new Device ID

Device should now show up in “Devices → All” (It won’t show correctly at this point, but we will add the rest of the settings to fix this)

Next, find this manually added device… Click Settings (Wrench Icon) & Update at a minimum the following fields:

Settings Tab:
URL: /cgi-bin/viewer/video.jpg
Username:
Password:
IP Address: (Should already be entered in ‘192.168.1.200:8080’ format)

Close out of settings & click “Save”

Within about 30secs you should see the “Camera Icon” update and if all mentioned settings were entered correctly you will see your camera image update to a live capture.

This manually added camera should now even show up in “Devices → Cameras” menu

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Thanks for posting this. I had to follow these steps to get my camera feeds from Blue Iris in to Vera.

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This was helpful. The process was not exactly as described on a FD8372, but it was close enough that a couple tweaks got it working.