New to HS3 - Camera question

[spud]

does it work if you setup one of this camera directly as a new system in the IH app?

[gwichman]

current imperihome settings for the camera page..

[gwichman]

you can see here the settings of the camera for the substream channel including it being set to MJPEG..

[gwichman]

Shoot.. I switched my camera's substream to MJPEG and confirmed it was set to that and then for "MJPEG stream local URL" in the imperihome plugin I put http://192.168.1.108/Streaming/channels/102/httppreview which i confirmed shows a feed in a browser. Still no luck after rebuilding imperihome's database and reloading in the app. Same error.

Any ideas?

My "remote URL"s are both blank. Not sure if that matters. I'm assuming that i don't have to poke a hole in my firewall and all that since the plugin should be communicating with the cams locally.

I'd like to deploy blueiris and its not the software cost that scares me off but rather the hardware cost. Finding a compact (like an intel NUC), lower power computer of some kind with a windows license seems like it'd cost me more like $500 to deploy something that I mostly already get with SS running on my qnap (though not as nice i admit).

[gwichman]

in imperihome under cameras mpeg you need to have something that looks like below, with user and password boxes filled out..

http://ipaddress: port/mjpg/cam2/video.mjpg

mine points to my blue iris server.. but it should not matter. you just need to point it to the ip address and port of your camera. blue iris is well worth the $69 they charge for it. and they are not paying me to say that either! lol

Ahh thanks I bet that's it. I don't have anything defined under MJPEG config in the imperihome plugin. I only had an URL set for JPEG snapshot. In fact i'm pretty sure that my cameras are all set to H.264 so i'll probably have to wait until I get home to set a stream to MPEG and set the URL to test it out.

[wadesready]

well still no luck here..

added the SS plugin but can't get it to work and so far haven't gotten help with it..
played with netcam for a bit..
then installed ultranetcam3 which handles my cam and email notifications pretty well. pretty happy there especially if i can eventually get pushover to push me an image, but i digress.

I still can't seem to get imperihome to show a camera even with my ultranetcam3 plugin now allowing me to successfully add all 3 of my cameras as devices. When I add the cameras in imperihome in the app i get "the operation couldn't be completed. (INSURLErrorDomain error -1100.)."

soooo, i take it this isn't going to work either.

still looking for some help/direction on how i might be able to view the current camera image in imperihome. one that doesn't involve installing blue iris since I looked into that and i don't see myself spending hundreds to set that up anytime soon when my old SS on qnap works fine.

in imperihome under cameras mpeg you need to have something that looks like below, with user and password boxes filled out..

http://ipaddress: port/mjpg/cam2/video.mjpg

mine points to my blue iris server.. but it should not matter. you just need to point it to the ip address and port of your camera. blue iris is well worth the $69 they charge for it. and they are not paying me to say that either! lol

[gwichman]

well still no luck here..

added the SS plugin but can't get it to work and so far haven't gotten help with it..
played with netcam for a bit..
then installed ultranetcam3 which handles my cam and email notifications pretty well. pretty happy there especially if i can eventually get pushover to push me an image, but i digress.

I still can't seem to get imperihome to show a camera even with my ultranetcam3 plugin now allowing me to successfully add all 3 of my cameras as devices. When I add the cameras in imperihome in the app i get "the operation couldn't be completed. (INSURLErrorDomain error -1100.)."

soooo, i take it this isn't going to work either.

still looking for some help/direction on how i might be able to view the current camera image in imperihome. one that doesn't involve installing blue iris since I looked into that and i don't see myself spending hundreds to set that up anytime soon when my old SS on qnap works fine.

[gwichman]

Hmm I do have surveillance station running on a qnap currently and see that there is a plugin for SS. It's on my list of things to play with but wasn't isn't clear to me currently is if that'll ultimately get me to where i'd be able to see the cameras through imperihome

[Pete]

Ideally you want a proxy for all three cameras on your network.

Today Blue Iris is very popular.

Here utilize Zoneminder.

You can too use Netcam and trigger single JPGs from your cameras triggered by a motion script and email those to your telephone or manually write a script to do this in Homeseer.

Here way long time ago with HS2 just used a script to do this on my outdoor combo Optex camera / PIR sensors.

[gwichman]

I got HS3 up and running..
I also got imperihome up and running to control my devices via IOS..
I own 3 hikvision IP cameras..

next i'd like to add them such that I can via them as a device in Imperihome. But i'm not sure how to go about doing that. Appreciate any direction. I notice there is a camera setting under setup->Cameras but i'm not really sure what putting your cam info in there does since it doesn't show up as a device.

after that i'd like to get HS3 to email me a photo when it sense movement at the front door from my motion sensor. Appreciate any direction on how to do this as well. Netcam plugin?

Thanks!