/ipcam/ - IP Camera Exploration

Can we have a discussion about cam software here?

I'm using iSpy right now.

Positives:
- Can set to record on many complex types of motion detection. Will display start of recording in the task bar so you don't need to watch the cams if you are waiting to see if something's gonna happen. Pic related. Been waiting for this cutie to wake up for an hour now. It's fucking 12:30pm in Korea. Time for you and your 5 dogs to wake up, gurl. (But at least I can do other shit and won't miss it when she does.)
- Time lapse recording is amazing for scoping out when certain cams are active and when you are most likely to find something interesting.

Negatives:
- On Foscam-type cams the FPS can be pretty damn low. (See below for some info I've found on boosting FPS.)
- Setting it up is a bitch. Finding the right model # that will work is sometimes a chore. But you can also scan for streams. Also, setting up talk mode means you need to put the IP, port and login info in again, and set cam type to Foscam. Kinda stupid. Should auto-enter this.


Here's some copy-pasted tips for improving iSpy FPS on Foscam-style cams. Do other cam programs suffer from low FPS?:

1) You may need to update the firmware and WebUI on cams you really want better FPS on with iSpy: "thought I would share something I just found out. Basically with my 8904 and 8905 and 8918 I was getting really slow frame rates in iSpy, in the vicinity of 5fps max. Recently I updated all my cameras mentioned above to their latest firmware versions ( and WebUI updated as well )"

2) VLC streams give better fps: "a few VLC streams came up for my 8904 and 8905 cameras! I swear to god they were never there before. Completed the wizard and I am now getting 10-13fps, nothing else in my infrastructure has changed."

3) "Apparently the FFMPEG streams are able to give higher frame rates too, worth a shot!"


This is why the engineers say it doesn't work great. Go figure, the guys who made these shitty vulnerable cams are Greek:

"Our engineers installed iSPY to test,it is really 4Fps.
The reason is as this third party software based on the CGI command,using the CGI command to get the audio and video data.
Network processing section using up much CPU source,but for the IE active x,is based on the bottom protocol,so there is no problem with our IE active x to get 15 Fps."

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I forgot to mention, thanks for shilling! We lurk around on IRC and sometimes have some good things to share if you're interested in joining.

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Looking into ZoneMinder got me inspired so, with a few hours of fucking around, I got it and it's dependencies installed and working. Looks like all of the core features are there… motion detect recording, exporting, etc.

I'm running this on a local web server under Linux but you can run it on Windows with Apache/PHP/MySQL. And they do it for free!

This is my new set up 5 23 in monitors… its a littl bright but so far is working awesome

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New Hardware Config A work in progress but progressing nicely.

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+1 for iSpy. Initial setup was weird (copying VLC files, figuring out urls) but once you get it up and running once it's easy to add more cameras. Can talk through mic, tts, listen, and record easily.