Recent content by mattcaves

Hi G-Man, it looks like this way used to work, but they've disabled it in the later firmware as it was considered an exploit, see DDD1's first post: edit: It may be working for you as you are authorizing the camera first, once you have authorized once in the browser it will work after that...

After a bit more research today, the only way I've found to do it is by proxy. Someone has conveniently made a Docker image using Python/Flask for this task! :) jantman/python-amcrest-noauth-proxy I've tried it, it works well, no lag that I can see. On my i5-7600K it's using 2.5%-5% CPU, so...

Yep, I've tried in my Python (see below) and I get a '200 - OK' response back, if I change the password to an incorrect one I get a '401 - Unauthorized' back, so it looks to be working. parsed_url = urlparse(url) username = parsed_url.username password = parsed_url.password...

It doesn't look like you can send the password like that any more, please see this thread: Hikvision url authorization with credentials? Cheers, Matt

Hi DDD1, I am also having this issue, tried lots of things... I'm writing some software with Python/Flask to view the camera feeds on a webpage. As you've found, it works if I sign into the camera on the main login page, as it seems to authorize it then. Although if I login on one browser and...