WIFI IP Camera

[GiovanniPolese]

Ok. Thanks. I supposed that the topic was related to my needs.

 

[Magma]

Hi to all
I have seen this discussion and I have a question. As a matter of fact I was never able to connect an Ip camera with any software, to get the video stream. With other languages, on desktops, somebody suggest to use OpenCV (and "hope" that it connects). As I said, I was not able to do it. The story is that, some years ago, i bought an ip camera. At that time I had a router in my house, therefore I had a local network, so the camera had a local Ip and everything worked, but, as i said, only with the manufacturer App. Nevertheless, I was not able to capture the video stream for my purposes. Now I don't have that router anymore and nothing works. What I read here surprises me a little. Do I understand well: is it so straightforward to connect to the camera? At the moment I don't know how, but if it is possible, I hope to find the way. Thanks in advance for any hint.

From the other hand... why will not be possible to just capture a frame, screenshoot....

First you must have access to your ip camera.. at least through web (to check how works, what streams, and how streaming)... i am sure that will help the following:

[B4X] [class] MJPEG decoder

The attached class is an implementation of a MJPEG over Http decoder. The data is a mix of strings and raw bytes. It is tempting to convert the bytes to a string. However raw bytes do not represent a valid string so you can lose important information during the conversion (which will also slow...

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need to have some network knowledge...

and... you can create a new question at b4j or b4a forum ! where you wanna create code for it...

 

[ilan]

Hi to all
I have seen this discussion and I have a question. As a matter of fact I was never able to connect an Ip camera with any software, to get the video stream. With other languages, on desktops, somebody suggest to use OpenCV (and "hope" that it connects). As I said, I was not able to do it. The story is that, some years ago, i bought an ip camera. At that time I had a router in my house, therefore I had a local network, so the camera had a local Ip and everything worked, but, as i said, only with the manufacturer App. Nevertheless, I was not able to capture the video stream for my purposes. Now I don't have that router anymore and nothing works. What I read here surprises me a little. Do I understand well: is it so straightforward to connect to the camera? At the moment I don't know how, but if it is possible, I hope to find the way. Thanks in advance for any hint.

have you tried to connect through the app i posted above?
you said that you were able to connect with your old router may be your new router runs on 5ghz and many wifi IP cam don't support 5ghz.
actually it was super simple to connect to my wifi ip cam. i did not had to do anything just scan the qr code that was shown on the app by the IP cam and that's it.
it is a very cheap camera maybe consider get one. i can tell you that it is working great for me.

 

[GiovanniPolese]

Thanks. I will try. Actually I was not on this problem and only noticed your post. I don't think it is a ghz problem, but right now don't have further details to contribute to the discussion. At the moment I cannot work on this, but it is a rather crucial issue in my work, so I will contact you for any further hint. Thanks again.

 

[GiovanniPolese]

Magma: the basic problem is to have access to the camera, as you pointed out. This is my problem, decoding Mjpeg etc.is a further step. To be sincere, after changing the router, no other software, included the manufacturer App, connects. Of course I scanned the Qr code etc. I argue that the camera stored old Ip after first installation. Probably I have to reset the camera. I didn't do it because, when I tried, I had no access to the factory reset button. Thanks for hints.

 

[Magma]

Magma: the basic problem is to have access to the camera, as you pointed out. This is my problem, decoding Mjpeg etc.is a further step. To be sincere, after changing the router, no other software, included the manufacturer App, connects. Of course I scanned the Qr code etc. I argue that the camera stored old Ip after first installation. Probably I have to reset the camera. I didn't do it because, when I tried, I had no access to the factory reset button. Thanks for hints.

may be is a pin hole... or "trick" to reset it... but is better to contact manufacture will guide you for this... the other as you said... is the second step

Hope... that you will found a solution !

 

[GiovanniPolese]

Ilan: just to close the topic, for now, where did you post the app?

 

[ilan]

Ilan: just to close the topic, for now, where did you post the app?

WIFI IP Camera

hi i just bought a cheap WIFI IP Cam so i can check my 3d Printer if it is still printing and has no error. First i am really surprised from the camera that is really good and also the app is very nice but what surprised me more is the fact that i don't need a static ip to connect to it. i was...

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[thetahsk]

Hi to all
I have seen this discussion and I have a question. As a matter of fact I was never able to connect an Ip camera with any software, to get the video stream. With other languages, on desktops, somebody suggest to use OpenCV (and "hope" that it connects). As I said, I was not able to do it. The story is that, some years ago, i bought an ip camera. At that time I had a router in my house, therefore I had a local network, so the camera had a local Ip and everything worked, but, as i said, only with the manufacturer App. Nevertheless, I was not able to capture the video stream for my purposes. Now I don't have that router anymore and nothing works. What I read here surprises me a little. Do I understand well: is it so straightforward to connect to the camera? At the moment I don't know how, but if it is possible, I hope to find the way. Thanks in advance for any hint.

Check this IP camera database for your camera.

Connecting to IP Cameras

iSpy camera connection url database

www.ispyconnect.com