Camera Identification

[TrevorfromPerth]

You get what you paid for**********
You deserve what you get********
Yep I accept all of that and dont buy from China etc etc. But sometimes we do....

So I bought a 8 camera NVR set-up from Banggood. And it all worked fine with the NVR. However, I wasnt happy with the software so I have tried a number of alternatives---------Zoneminder (my No 1 pick but very hard to set up) Ispy ( was probably best in some ways but not usable in Ubuntu) So--. I looked at BI and downloaded the Demo. have done this a few times,,,,

So the problem is that non-detect of my camera -------------(stream). I know the local IP numbers- but without the ...extras no go,

so if I use /snapshot.jpg?user=&pwd=&strm=0 or exact 10.1.1.86/snapshot.jpg?user=&pwd=&strm=0 it works ( with some things).
However, after setting up one Camera and trying to duplicate /snapshot.jpg?user=&pwd=&strm=0 with ip address it doesnt work????

When the first one worked I was already to pay but is it that hard?

OK so what I did was do a search on the MAC address to get manufacturer (the first 6 numbers) and I am talking to them mmm--- and I keep saying all I want is a camera name or what you are basing the camera on?

So Im sort off getting there....But if I set one Cam up why doesnt another work????? I was so close to paying for a key then this seemed to have same problems,
Not a supporter of ISPY but there search for LAN seems to work- and then when you click on a ip it gives the streams ie(/snapshot.jpg?user=&pwd=&strm=0) which seems to be the important bit.

Any clues?

[TimG]

Hi TrevorFromPerth,

You get what you paid for**********
You deserve what you get********
Yep I accept all of that and dont buy from China etc etc. But sometimes we do....

This is the friendly forum, so don't worry about that

You are correct that once you have one camera working it should be as easy a copying it, changing the IP and user/pw and off you go. If that isn't working, it might be those cheap Chinese cameras I recently did exactly that with nine Chinese cameras (Dahua ptz), so I know it works.

I used iSpy before BI, and I'm glad I'm here. I much prefer BI and I don't have to write my own ptz command files here

[TrevorfromPerth]

Cheers for that. Will give it another go today and hope for the best. I do like a lot of what BI offers and am hopefull

[TrevorfromPerth]

Cheers for that. Will give it another go today and hope for the best. I do like a lot of what BI offers and am hopefull

[TrevorfromPerth]

Success- it worked exactly like it should the problem was me! I was not being careful enough when transposing info onto another camera.

The important part is /snapshot.jpg?user=&pwd=&storm=0 As nothing else seems to work. I will try to find out what cameras use that stream and maybe in future set ups try and use that particular camera.

[TimG]

Excellent

[Thixotropic]

TimG is The Wizard.

[TimG]

Dual NIC a speciality

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