Alex, you missunderstand. I have chrome on my Android phone and it works when I plug in the url for the ipwebcam app into the address bar. I get prompted for id/pw. it loads and then I can see the stream. However, I pasted the address into the ActiOn dashboard it only loads the blank tile. Am I supposed to enter
i have a hikvision 2cd2432.
to auth with http you need to do http://username:password@192.168.1.1:4002/video_stream or whatever the url to your camera is.
@isriam have you try this http:///Streaming/channels/1/preview is the mjpeg stream, works in firefox came from this website.
http://www.cam-it.org/index.php?topic=5641.0
Don’t know if it will work? The hikvision is a dual stream camera stream 1 is mjpeg stream.
yea i tried in chrome, no luck with /preview. stream 1 shows h.264 and stream 2 shows mjpeg. i tried stream 2 for /preview and no luck their either.
Did you mean Firefox? Also, what platform are you using to view the cameras (PC, Mac, tablet, phone, iOS, Android)?
It works fine (with a few exceptions) in Firefox on Android. Not so much with Chrome.
This is fantastic. That is all.
@Dlee, this looks great!
I think I have to fast track support for themes. It seems to be the most demanded feature after thermostats.
Did you change the size of video tiles? Looks like they are 4 x 2 tiles? When I was designing this, video streams were just an after though. I didn’t realize they will be taking front stage!
ST icons are not exposed in the API. There is no way to access icon selection.
This has been asked, but I don’t blame you. This thread is getting too long. I thought I would bump up the version number a bit later, but I will do it next week. There will be another minor release today or tomorrow.
We considered to add streams that will be refreshed with javascript. Look a few posts above for a snippet of code to refresh still image every few seconds.
Leonid, when you you view the url for the ipwebcam, do you only see the stream by itself, or is it a whole web page with other information on it? If it’s a web page, try to look at the source and locate the url of the actual stream.
If you provide more information (model, brand), maybe folks here will be able to help you.
Alex I think your idea of a fancybox type of expanded window popup for video would be most popular. On smaller devices ability to temporarily expand the video stream without loading a new tab will be great. I’d have to check the fancybox license, but I think I have used it for this purpose before.
You did a great job making the video easy to use and customize. I did some trial and error with custom css (H2 and W2 settings) and ultimately also had to change the video tile size to fit two tiles width with the width of my device screen specifically in portrait mode. Height setting also seemed to limit width so it took me a few tries. I went back and forth late at night until it looked right. Probably could be done better.
To apply these settings within the app, maybe just add free text Width and Height entry option with a new tile class of VTile and VW= and VH= values or something. Perhaps an entry for margin-top/offset.
Also some of my video streams are SD but they are good enough stretched into HD dimensions along side the HD streams. Perfectionists might want ability to have SD and HD dimension video tiles (VtileSD VTileHD) at the same time. Personally I have both SD and HD streams, for this purpose, HD dimension for all video streams looks better. My initial goal was just to get rid of the empty space above and below the original H2 video tiles.
Video tile settings that worked best for my device (Samsung Tab Pro 12.2")
} else if (data.tile == "genericMJPEGvideo") {
return """<div class="video tile h2 w2" data-link-i="$data.i"><div class="title">$data.name</div><div class="icon" style="margin-top:-98px;"><object width="390" height="196"><img src="$data.link" width="390" height="196"></object></div></div>"""
Custom CSS (aside from color changes) at the very bottom
.tile {width: 130px; height: 130px;}
.w2 {width: 390px;}
.h2 {height: 200px;}
Also above I use Small tile size within App, at some point I changed:
def getTSize() {
if (tileSize == "Small") return 100
Hope that helps. Unfortunate side effect of hard code W2 tile edit is other tiles like Weather are wide. I was able to change Mode and/or HelloHome tiles to W1.
Thanks for javascript codes. The codes work for my Hikvison DS-2CD2332-I,
@thrash99er I use the following
http://192.168.1.???:Port/cgi-bin/CGIStream.cgi?cmd=GetMJStream&user=???&pwd=???
hope this helps.
Release 4.6.3
This is a minor release. To update, just override your existing code with the latest version.
- Added dimmer lights.
- Updated holiday lights and renamed as “Theme Lights”.
- You now have an option to assign your switches/lights/dimmable lights into 1 of 3 categories: lights, switches and themed lights. They all have different icons. Go to preferences section to pick a theme. We currently have themed tiles for Christmas and Valentine ’s Day. I will be adding more in the future.
- Possible fix for iOS links to other dashboards. Could someone with iOS 8 confirm this (dashboard links should not open a new Safari window)?
- Other minor layout tweaks and bug fixes.
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Do you have the D-Link camera? I have a DCS930L that does what you describe. I have not found a way around it.
It did fix the iOS 8 issue. Thank you for all the work you do!
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Through Blue Iris web server. D-Link DCS-2330L, DCS-930L, Foscam FI8904W
Advantage of BlueIris is consolidated control, one port open for remote viewing, better secure and account control, LAN only viewing without usr & password login (dashboard), motion alerts can request ST endpoints (Virtual switch and/or lights on, Ubi announce driveway visitor etc) and one link to view all cameras (outside of the dashboard).
I am using two cameras.
- Is a software app installed on an old Samsung Galaxy S2 (IPWebcam) - http://192.168.2.1:xxxx/ (Loads as a webpage with options to view the stream as Java/Flash/HTML5/etc.,
- I purchased a generic Wifi P2P camera which works via a phone app (iStmartViewPro) I am unable to find a way to get to the preview stream. However I can log into it via the IP address through the IE/Chrome/Firefox and brows folders.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/H-264-1-0-MP-HD-720P-P2P-Pan-Tilt-WiFi-Wireless-Night-Vision-IRNetwork-IP-Camera-/400855447438?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d54d8b78e
Any ideas on how to get them to work via the ActiOn Dashboard?