TheWaterbug
Getting comfortable
I have an Amcrest IP5M-B1186EW-28MM staring at my garden, and I have a computer calling cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi every 10 minutes:
so I can assemble a time-lapse like I did in 2022:
I snapped photos every 10 minutes, but used only the noon photos (± 1 minute due to uncertainty in the timer) for the time lapse. I also had to do some post-processing because I moved the camera part-way through, which is why the timestamp starts off tilted. But it all worked for months.
For some reason it stopped working a few months ago, and all I got was text files containing:
If I paste
in my browser and enter anonymous1 and password1, I get the same error text. I know these are valid credentials, because I can log into with them, and I can view video, but I can't administer the camera.
If I change "anonymous1
assword1" in my script to my admin login, then it works, but I don't like having my admin credentials in a script.
I know this used to work, because I have the linked video above, and I was surprised when I saw a bunch of 33 kB "images" in the folder instead of the expected ~700 kB files.
I know the credentials were anonymous1assword1, because I had to change them to make the script work again.
I have not updated the firmware in forever.
Anyone know what the root cause of this is, and how to fix it so it works with non-admin credentials again?
Code:
crontab -l
*/10 * * * * cd /usr/local/bin && ./AmcrestSnapshot.sh 192.168.1.54 ~/CornLapse/
Code:
cat AmcrestSnapshot.sh
#!/bin/bash
IPAddress=$1
OutPath=$2
cd /usr/local/bin
outfile=$OutPath
outfile+=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S)
outfile+=.jpg
echo $outfile
curl -o $outfile --digest --user anonymous1:password1 "$IPAddress/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi"I snapped photos every 10 minutes, but used only the noon photos (± 1 minute due to uncertainty in the timer) for the time lapse. I also had to do some post-processing because I moved the camera part-way through, which is why the timestamp starts off tilted. But it all worked for months.
For some reason it stopped working a few months ago, and all I got was text files containing:
Code:
Error
Authority:check failure.in my browser and enter anonymous1 and password1, I get the same error text. I know these are valid credentials, because I can log into with them, and I can view video, but I can't administer the camera.
If I change "anonymous1
assword1" in my script to my admin login, then it works, but I don't like having my admin credentials in a script.I know this used to work, because I have the linked video above, and I was surprised when I saw a bunch of 33 kB "images" in the folder instead of the expected ~700 kB files.
I know the credentials were anonymous1
assword1, because I had to change them to make the script work again.I have not updated the firmware in forever.
Anyone know what the root cause of this is, and how to fix it so it works with non-admin credentials again?