generic ip camera help

[Reginald Lewis]

I am hoping someone can help me out I picked up a couple of no name IP cameras to go on top of my radio tower(wanted cheap incase they die in the weather). However I have a bit of an issue I can seam to get them to work with anything but the software that came with them. if I enter the ip in a browser it simply wants to download a file named download no ext. any help would be great. If it helps I am including a photo



Thanks,
Reg

 

[ramleaf]

Did you tried with Internet Explorer?

 

[Reginald Lewis]

yeah internet explorer does the same thing.

Reg

 

[Abbell]

Download no is a fail sent by the camera software. If you have an older computer you can use that to test. Edge does not work with cameras... mostly and Chrome no longer plays nice with extensions. You may have to tweak your IE settings to allow the camera to send its active X controls. I have a few older computers that I keep around for old analog systems i used in the past because I have them set up to play nice. The good news is you may be able to use third party software to view the cameras once you have them setup. The bad news is that it will probably be a pain to get them setup. You may be able to use the p2p phone app that I am sure those cams want you to use. Once setup you can copy the stream information and use third party software to pull the streams.

 

[Reginald Lewis]

Thanks I had not thought about trying to capture the data from the mobile app that came with it off to sniff an app.

Thanks,
Reg

 

[Reginald Lewis]

well sniffing had no luck there phone app actually opens a direct IP port to the camera. however I did some googling for the software and came up with this I have never used the rtsp port on any of my cameras but it does work. In the even anyone else comes up later with a similar problem here is the address that works in VLC rtsp://192.168.1.10:554/user=admin&password=12345&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?real_stream--rtp-caching=100

now I just have to look up how to use the rtsp in zoneminder.

Thanks,
Reg

 

[Abbell]

You can also use VLC to view the streams

 

[Reginald Lewis]

Yeah I know I used it when I first found the URL for RTSP but I want to add them into my cctv system as one of them will be looking down at most of the property.

Reg