IP camera suggestions

[deano12 (Dean Smith)]

As yet I’ve not tested this fully, however I have a:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161241367538?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Then I will be using the following:

Generic Camera Device using local connection (new version now available)

After a week of hacking around while waiting for support to respond to my ticket, I finally figured out how to do local http GET and parse the response for cameras. So I wrote this nice little generic camera device that I have tested with Panasonic Cameras and D-Link cameras and should work for any camera that has a url to retrieve the latest image. Requirements: Code here… https://github.com/pstuart/smartthings-ps/blob/master/devicetypes/generic_camera.groovy Edit preferences after install in devices in IDE or on App on phone: -IP of the camera, this is your local ip, does NOT need to be publicly accessible -Port of the camera, typically 80 but could be anything -Path to image, different for each camera Panasonic Camera is "/SnapshotJPEG?Resolution=640x480&Quality=Clarity" D-Link…

This in theory should work, and you dont need to spend a fortune to do it. It has the external web access too!