Thanks David. I’ll wait for your new SA.
Hello I have followed the instructions and i can see it on my ST and i cannot get it to do anything. It says Active but when i try and look at the camera it says Connecting and it becomes green. then it goes back to active and Camera is not available. i know its another step that i need to take as it was already in the marketplace and it says not yet configured. So i go through the page to set it up and i put in my ip address for the hostname and for the port i use whati found online with the ip config tool which is 37777. please advise. Thanks
Hi Lawrence,
Is this a local IP? If so, did you try using port 80?
how do i find out if it is a local IP?
Local IP’s (typically) begin with 127./169./172./192.
So 192.161.1.1 would be a local IP.
Great looking DH and thanks for the work @Belgarion! A few comments…
- My video connection is a bit buggy. Sometimes it has trouble connecting (even over my home wifi).
- When I use any of the PTZ functions, the stream crashes.
- I cannot seem to get my stream to function on the app over LTE. It is a local IP, so would that make the difference?
Note: I have an IPM-721.
kurt
I am glad you are finding it useful Kurt.
The video is not rock solid, but this is due to the video streaming being undocumented functionality by ST. I have the same issue where it takes a few attempts to get a stream going, at times.
The PTZ functions are causing the video stream to crash? I can’t say that I would be surprised by this, but I really did not test this out as I coded the PTZ functions for picture taking and added the streaming after the fact.
Yes, a local IP will not work if you are not connected to your WiFi. There are ways around this, but suffice it to say that unless you are going to setup a VPN tunnel or use a public DDNS, streaming with a local IP only works with a WiFi connection.
Got it and thanks for the quick response. Again, slick looking UI!
Is there any way I can confirm which API a particular Amcrest Camera is using? I am looking to purchase the IP2M-844E and had given up immediate hope I would be able to incorporate into ST until I came across your DTH.
Not that I have been able to find in any of there support site information.
I myself sent an email to their support for a question I had on their 841 model and it took them a few days but they did answer my question. You may want to give that a try.
Excellent, I will give that a try. I had given up, for the time being, on being able to incorporate any kind of IP cameras, but Im hoping this is the solution because Amcrest looks to make decent ones and the price is hard to beat as well.
I agree. Comparatively, they offer a pretty good product for the money… especially when you can catch them on sale:
I downloaded a copy of the documentation of the API for Amcrest. Looks like they are using version 1.51
Is there anyone, that owns the Amcrest IP cameras, can tell me what the power requirements are (voltage and current)? I’m trying to figure out how much of a PoE switch I will need to get to run the cameras I want to get.
From the packaging on the 721/841:
Power supply: DC 5V/2A
Power consumption: < 7.5W
Excellent! Thank you for that info. I guess now I just need to get at least one and start playing with it and make sure everything will work as planned and then expand from there.
Glad to help. See post 52 for the coupon on the IP PTZ 1080P camera, I have one and it’s a great deal.
Yeah, I saw that. Unfortunately, I need some outdoor cameras and I’m a little leery of having one that would leave the connections exposed to be easily disconnected. I planned on getting the dome type cameras so that everything would be tucked away nicely. May not prevent tampering completely but it would at least take some work.
Thx for your work! I was able to get the app configured and running with your detailed instructions.
I can’t seem to get the PTZ functions to respond.
While logging I see the presets call the following:
hubGet -> hubAction = GET /cgi-bin/ptz.cgi?action=start&channel=0&code=GotoPreset&arg1=0&arg2=6&arg3=0&arg4=0 HTTP/1.1
But the camera does not move. I can copy the same code /cgi-bin/… and add it to the camera URL and see the camera move in the ST app.
I’m using an IP-721
Sorry about the late reply… I have been busy here with non-HA things.
Did you define presets in your camera configuration? The buttons in the DTH execute the presets requests so in your example, button 6.
Do the presets work in the Amcrest Web View tool?