FWIW I’m using this 932L device type with my 934L. I have had 0 problems. Not sure if it was necessary but I changed references from 932L to 934L in my local source code.
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Thanks, I ended up getting a 932L because the DNR202 doesn’t support the 934L and there doesn’t seem to be any difference between the two cameras.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I only really need to take still photos to see who is at my front door when I get alerted and to see the weather at home when I am traveling. I get alerted using a pressure pad which should work great to trigger photos. I have no real use for live video so thanks to this thread I can just buy two cheap D-Links instead of the more expensive supported ones. And with other motion sensors in my home I don’t care about using the motion sensors in the camera to trigger other things. Thanks all and especially @blebson
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does this still work for your 934L camera? No picture shows up for mine using v2 hub.
Are you using the correct IP address? It should be the same IP that you can type into a browser to get into the settings.
Yep, I run two of em, neither produce an image
Is the login name your admin or an added user? Mine is not the added user ID. This is OK for my use because, I’m not accessing it thru a traditional port nor published IP address. My set up is dependent upon SmartThings and optionally the built-in D-link email server to send me the photos. With this set up, I can also view photos through the PhotoBurst app found in ST Marketplace. Also SmartTiles Camera button successfully snaps photos.
Just an update … I finally got around to installing this with a DCS-932L. Works really well and was easy to install. Many thanks for putting this together. I must admit however that I am not happy with the quality of the image. I bought this to monitor my back yard but the resolution is not really good enough. More specifically, I wanted to monitor the color of the water in my pool and you can’t see the color from a distance, and of course these can’t go outside. My wife didn’t want any cameras inside because it seemed a bit too creepy to her so I used this in the garage to monitor the cars. It is fine for this purpose. For the back yard I am going to order a newer external-qualified HD camera - one of the supported DLinks ones. Just sharing this for others in case you had planned to use one of these cheaper units for monitoring at a distance - they just aren’t quite good enough for that. I like the idea of the IFTTT hack to take pictures upon motion. I’ll work on that next. As usual, this community has proven to be awesome. Thanks again.
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I’ve been looking to upgrade to one of the newer HD cameras that are natively supported by ST. The only reason I had the ones that I did was because they were compatible with my old system (Staples Connect). Once I take the plunge I’ll probably release some devicetypes for those as well (the native DeviceTypes only allow you to view video, nothing else from my understanding).
My device type stopped working. I changed the resolution and installed the ftp feature and after that the SmartThings integration stopped working. I tried reversing my steps but couldn’t get it to work again. Has anyone else had similar problem? I chlove caked the log and it activates the cgi call but no image is returned. Odd thing is it worked perfectly before I tried to change the resolution.
I know there is a file size limit for the ST cloud so you may be running into that. Have you been able to turn the resolution back down?
Yes I tried to but it may have not taken. I will try again.
update: I reloaded the device and reset the password and it started working again.
it appears to be fragile. Somehow it looks like my login username got scrambled.
I got it fixed and am happy again.
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I have a 932l and 930l and didn’t realise these would work with ST! I’m going to dig them out and give them a try.
Basic steps as I’m not a coder, and pretty new to ST…
°Setup camera with FTP and motion detect in its own web interface.
°Add the above code to a new device handler
°Create a new device in the IDE; type using new device handler above
and that’s it…? Great work…
Also can you FTP to a dropbox folder? If not where do people FTP to? A computer on your network? I was hoping I could to dropbox, onedrive, or the like so it’s backed up and I could review even if not in the house
That I do not know. I will be trying to add video streaming functionality soon and will need testers (Streaming only, no recording unfortunately…)
I am not using FTP now, but I have tried it with my router’s ftp server. It worked, but I didn’t see the need for an archive beyond what’s shown in the ST “Recently” tab.
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I’ll also not bothered on storing it. What I wanted was to view the screenshots though. So you’re saying that using the code and device handler that actually they are viewable in the ST app? or am I way off here?
I thought I’d have to save them somewhere and ST would just be the trigger?
Thanks
You can do both. SmartThings will allow you to take a snapshot in order to view it but you can also use ST to turn on the camera’s motion detection which can send pics/video to an email/FTP server.
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So ST if you tell it to trigger on a motion will actually save the screenshot within the app and then you could email it from ST app to yourself?
Could you post a screenshot of this please, this sounds perfect solution for these (my) cameras :slight_smilegreat work @blebson
You can do it two ways…
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You can have it so ST takes a snapshot when it senses motion and then open/save the image from there. (CAUTION: there is currently a bug that was introduced today that crashes the ST app when you try to open the photo)
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You can have ST turn ‘on’ the motion detection on the camera and then set the camera to automatically send an email or upload to a FTP server whenever it sees motion.
You can you use SmartThings to toggle the motion sensor in the camera. When the camera senses motion it sends the photos via email. And/or the camera can be triggered by a separate motion sensor. When the stand-alone sensor is activated it triggers the PhotoBurst app to tell the camera to take a specified number of photos. The PhotoBurst triggered photos are captured in SmartThings. You can find PhotoBurst in the MarketPlace, SmartApps, More category. It’s at the very end of the list of apps.