Working except for on the home buddy app

Other Devices & Integrations Door Locks & Sensors
#1

I have spent many hours trying to figure this stupid foscam out with vera. I was able to load it in Android IP Cam viewer app in a couple minutes. So far I was able to add a foscam/get a picture, but the device was blank in the devices page and seemed to be lacking all of the camera stuff. I used an old tablet camera device in the devices page that I had for a tablet at the front door for alarm interface etc. With the old tablet camera device working and now an image showing in the dashboard etc on the icon, I 'm trying to get it to show on the home buddy app.

The home buddy app says
Tap to stream
Fetching Camera Info…
error:
Unable to get camera info (unable to retrieve camera information)

It did show a single pic after the first time I hit tap to stream, It showed it after it said there was an error, then Unable to get camera info (unable to retrieve camera information)

I installed the foscam app and vistacam app

Any ideas?

#2

If the HomeBuddy app was using the remote connection to connect to Vera, streaming of video footage will not work. This is a limitation of UI5 and the api calls to do something like this is non-existent or deprecated due to security reasons. Many apps, including mine just pull the still image about 1 every second on the local network and once every X seconds when on the remote servers from vera.

  • Garrett