Saturday, January 07, 2017

How to setup IP cameras

This is Work-In-Progress

What is my RTSP or HTTP stream?
IP cameras broadcast, or more technically stream, the images from the camera to a specific IP URL. There are default URLs given in the instructions, but these may not work.
Here are a few sites to check which model is your camera, and what is their URLs:
https://community.geniusvision.net/platform/cprndr/manurtsplist
https://security.world/rtsp/
http://www.soleratec.com/support/rtsp/rtsp_listing
https://www.mangocam.com/help/supported-cameras/

Another thing is to find out who the manufacturer is. The manufacturer of IP cameras are not obvious from the brand name because there are many brand names, but the manufacturer may be different. First find out the first 6 Hex number of the MAC ID of the IP camera.
Secondly, go to this website, using the first 6 Hex numbers, to find the manufacturer name.
            http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui.txt
Having the manufacturer name may be helpful, when trying to find information, such as documentations, drivers or software for the IP camera.

Some Cloud storage for IP cameras:
https://www.cnet.com/au/news/home-security-101-local-vs-cloud-camera-storage/
https://www.angelcam.com/apps/cloud-recording
https://www.filesanywhere.com/signup/create-account.aspx?freetrial=Y


Other sites on setting up IP web camera
http://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/how-to-setup-a-webcam-and-access-it-from-anywhere/

Some Mobile Apps that can be used for IP Cameras:
- TinyCam Monitor - Cannot connect yet
- Home Security Alfred - Has Viewer/Camera mode and need two phones. Motion Detection not available as of 20 Nov 2017
- RL Watcher - No idea how to actually use it.
- IP Webcam - Has Motion Detection which records to internal storage only. Has Local broadcasting and ONVIF support.
- Ivideon - Sricam manufacturer not found on list - cannot proceed further.
- iSpyConnect - needs the Windows iSpy version to be running.
- BL-IP Camera - Simple Viewer / Camera mode and requires two phones.

Mobile Sync Apps
- FolderSync - OneDrive, SugarSync, Copy.Net
- AutoSync - for Dropbox, Google Drive, Box

Desktop monitoring
- ContaCam 
- ISpy

Sricam App for Sricam SP005
- On the main screen entitled "Device List", click on the menu on the Right
- Choose Multi-media -> Video Playback.
- Select the IP camera.
- This allows choosing to save on SD card or phone video