rbonari
Resolved by ptp!
Hello,
I visited the threads regarding viewing Foscam Video in ARC Camera Control. I have a Foscam F19831p IP Video Camera and entered the following information in the camera control device select box:
http://192.168.x.x:Port/snapshot.cgi?user=username&pwd=password
When I select start in the Camera Control I get the following error message in the camera view area:
JPGStream Read Error (there are red crosshatch lines in the display also (two horizontal and two vertical).
The Foscam F19831p is set to snapshot (JPEG) Mode. It should be noted that the camera is set to snapshot mode in tinyCam Monitor Pro Application on my cell phone. I assume that is what it will be set at unless some other program changes it. I have no other applications that I have run that would change it.
I can view the video on my cell phone and also on my laptop. When viewing on Laptop I type in http://192.168.x.x:Port and it opens up the foscam application on my laptop. Once I enter my password and username name the video shows up. However one key thing here is that I have to select the substream video stream before it will show video from camera.
I am connected successfully in the client mode as mentioned in some of the threads and this makes sense of course.
Any help on this issue would be much appreciated and thanks in advance ! Rick B.
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That is awesome Alan. Will be interesting to see what you come up with ! Rick
Rick, I Haven't done more than read the manual yet, but I had a question. I think you said you use an Android app other than the Foscam app. Which one do you use?
Alan
Hello techguru,
I use tiny cam monitor pro and it works very well. I paid maybe four dollars for the app from the android app store. You can get the regular version from the app store also, you just get advertisements at the bottom of the screen. I would suggest getting pro version. You could get free version and try out first. Looking forward to hear what you come up with......Rick
Hello ptp and techguru,
I had success today and have actually viewed the foscam color video in the ARC Software with the Camera Control. Entering the commands ptp that you mentioned above I was able to successfully view the snapshot using the url commands from above. First setting the substream and then using snap picture2. Using the cmd=snapPicture2 in ARC did the trick.
Now that I know the video can be displayed I wanted to write a script using the HTTPGet command to try and control the Pan/Tilt and IR LED functions. I entered the following script:
HTTPGet("http://192.168.0.x:port/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=ptzMoveLeft&user=rbonari&pwd=angella1";)) Sleep(10000)
This did not work, but I am not sure the cmd command string is proper. Any thoughts or ideas on why this might not work would be helpful?
Good success though on viewing the video. It appears to work great thanks to all of your help, both ptp and techguru !
Nick,
Good news, let's close this thread and move to the other thread you open.
The url you wrote has errors (user vs usr), please check my last post on the other thread.
Thanks PTP and Alan for all your help !
