trying to add mini ip camera to BI need help

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Hello everyone

i bought a mini wifi ip camera that work with HIDVCAM software but has no http interface (meaning nothing shows up when opening the ip address with ie)
i tried many applications but nothing seems to work but blue iris does show that the RTSP link is detected

this is the camera

the camera has automatic IP and manual so i can chose the ip if i want to and its connected to my router
also when i search for ONVIf camera it doesnt show so i dont think it has ONVIF or maybe im doing something wrong
and heres some screens

please help
 

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Hello everyone

i bought a mini wifi ip camera that work with HIDVCAM software but has no http interface (meaning nothing shows up when opening the ip address with ie)
i tried many applications but nothing seems to work but blue iris does show that the RTSP link is detected

this is the camera

the camera has automatic IP and manual so i can chose the ip if i want to and its connected to my router
also when i search for ONVIf camera it doesnt show so i dont think it has ONVIF or maybe im doing something wrong
and heres some screens

please help
you will not be able to use this battery operated closed camera with BI.
 

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so there is no way i can view this camera on my computer ?
 

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I have bought them too, you can use wireshark to sniff the rtsp stream from the camera
 

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I don't mean to necro an old post but just to confirm, using Wireshark is exactly what I did to figure out how the app that these cameras use connect. I traced the network connectivity from my PC with Wireshark running (filtered on the IP address of the camera ip.addr == 192.168.1.213) and found these packets:

5078 134.599125 192.168.1.143 192.168.1.213 RTSP 193 DESCRIBE rtsp:/192.168.1.213:554/3c7a15b87c6863d9ebfb29af0fa38d0f_0 RTSP/1.0
5079 134.600066 192.168.1.213 192.168.1.143 TCP 60 554 → 56804 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=140 Win=30272 Len=0
5081 134.937884 192.168.1.213 192.168.1.143 RTSP/SDP 614 Reply: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
5082 134.938064 192.168.1.143 192.168.1.213 RTSP 221 SETUP rtsp:/192.168.1.213:554/3c7a15b87c6863d9ebfb29af0fa38d0f_0/trackID=0 RTSP/1.0
5083 134.939164 192.168.1.213 192.168.1.143 TCP 60 554 → 56804 [ACK] Seq=561 Ack=307 Win=31344 Len=0
5084 134.939494 192.168.1.213 192.168.1.143 RTSP 200 Reply: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
5085 134.939601 192.168.1.143 192.168.1.213 RTSP 248 SETUP rtsp:/192.168.1.213:554/3c7a15b87c6863d9ebfb29af0fa38d0f_0/trackID=1 RTSP/1.0
5086 134.940806 192.168.1.213 192.168.1.143 RTSP 200 Reply: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
5087 134.940906 192.168.1.143 192.168.1.213 RTSP 210 PLAY rtsp:/192.168.1.213:554/3c7a15b87c6863d9ebfb29af0fa38d0f_0 RTSP/1.0
5088 134.944581 192.168.1.213 192.168.1.143 RTSP 229 Reply: RTSP/1.0 200 OK

Packet 5087 seemed to be the gold... after sending that, the device starts streaming.

So I then used the following settings. My camera doesn't use a User name so I placed the password in the Password field but I honestly don't think the password is sent. If I had to wager a guess, I think the password is encoded into the URL path as part of the 3c7a15b87c6863d9ebfb29af0fa38d0f_0 value as I don't see the password on the wire and I saw no other AUTH attempt. This means I don't think these values will work for anyone else.

Also, the stream is about 1 frame every 1-2 seconds so it's not the best but it works if you just need to monitor something.

And last, only the Sub works. The Main doesn't so YMMV

2021-09-20 17_19_01-mamepad - Remote Desktop Connection.png
 

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Just realized the main isn't recording so changed the drop down from RTSP to HTTP and set the Make to Dahua and Model to Main Stream RTSP. I was then able to add the Main and Sub (why is Main grayed out with a Generic?) and this works to record now and no warnings:

2021-09-20 19_04_57-mamepad - Remote Desktop Connection.png
 
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