Liftmaster Garage Door Opener Camera

Thinking this might be a stupid/quick question that I just had a hard time finding answers to. There's a camera integrated into the garage door opener. It goes to a MyQ app but i don't pay for storage or anything so if i ever look at the feed have to open app but obviously no storage since i don't pay for cloud which means just temporary live feeds... I don't really need it to be honest so i've mostly ignored it but was thinking, if there was a way to wire it somehow to something to get it onto Blue Iris, I could make it at least somewhat useful as like a low quality inside garage cam or something.

What would I even need to do (if possible) to take this camera on the opener and possibly wire it to a Blue Iris feed where the rest of my cam feeds are?

wittaj said:

I suspect they are probably using proprietary firmware that only works with their app.

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Gotcha, so probably not just a case of splicing wires. Was searching around if anyone had converted a cam like that before but couldn't find anything.

TonyR said:

+1 to what @wittaj said.

I've got one (it was a freee promo on a new opener 2 years ago) and have no luck with it streaming to BI but honestly I didn't spend much time.

Instead I bought a $16 TP-LINK Tapo C-110 and have it streaming RTSP to BI. Has audio, SD card storage, is wireless only, can be assgned static IP, no cloud needed but free app is needed for set up and configuration, even has some ONVIF functions (has no embedded webGUI). Worth every penny. I spent $12 at a Chick-Fil-A after my first IV chemotherapy session today.

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Dec 10, 2022

talisman2208 said:

Oh god that sounds like a pain in the ass running Ispy and all that. I do not want to run through RTSP

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OK, I got a TP-LINK Tapo C110 last week and have it streaming RTSP to Blue Iris 5 and also VLC. Not bad looking for a $25 wireless only, little cam with 2-way audio and selectable 720p/1080p/2K resolution.

As I stated in post 6, no iSpy needed. Here's how:

How to stream RSTP from TP-LINK Tapo C110 camera to Blue Iris or VLC

1. Install the Tapo app on your phone, open it and power up the Tapo cam. Refer to the included instructions if needed.
2. Configure...

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How to view Tapo camera on PC/NAS/NVR through RTSP/Onvif Protocol | TP-Link

How to view Tapo camera on PC/NAS/NVR through RTSP/Onvif Protocol

www.tp-link.com

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Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to try this out. I didn't consider a cheap wifi cam for something that didn't need the extra horsepower. Trying to follow all of those instructions but my BI machine is on a different subnet (192.168.1.1 ethernet from ip cam switch) than my router (192.168.50.1). It does get internet from the router on 192.168.50.200 connections but when I'm trying to add the camera which has reserved IP of 192.168.50.161, it cannot pick up by the blue iris machine... what did you do for this? I don't currently have a dedicated router for the blue iris PC but maybe I should? Or maybe there's something else everyone is doing. VPN? Network bridge? Static route?

TonyR said:

By default the Tapo cams are set to DHCP so if connected to network same as the BI server it should get an IP from that subnet, same as BI and be seen by BI.

Can you furnish a quick sketch of your network layout, even if crude, that depicts your BI server, router, POE switches, a couple of cams, etc. with their network IP's? They're all private so no need for redaction, just don't reveal your WAN (public) IP. My BI server is 192.168.200:250

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Yep so my home router which has access to the internet is 192.168.50.1. The BI PC connects on 192.168.50.200 via wifi for internet access to that box. The BI machine has 2 network adaptors: ethernet where my switch connects containing 3 current cameras on 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.101, and 192.168.1.102. The ethernet adaptor has static IP of 192.168.1.200 for the PC so that I can pickup the IP cams.

Basically, when I setup the BI computer, I left the home router and all of that on default and just setup the BI box on the 192.168.1.x network. When I connect to the Tapo C110, everything works fine and I get the login info fine but my BI pc can't discover the default IP of the cam at 192.168.50.161 (I reserved this in the DHCP settings on my router interface). When I try to set static IP on the 192.168.1.x network it expectedly loses access to all since it doesn't have internet anymore but the BI pc still cannot find it. Thought about bridging the connection on the BI pc, VPN into router, static route, but i've read through all of the threads here and no mention of that stuff so trying to see if i'm missing something first.

Quick draft might look something like this:

Nevermind, i'm stupid. It was because i was connecting that PC via wifi and was on a different band than the C110. Good lord I spent way more time on that than I care to admit. Got it working. Thanks for the $15 suggestion. Can't wait to deploy this.