I just picked up camera from Amazon.ca
Can’t wait to try it out.
Question.
If i want the camera to pan over if a window sensor is tripped I need to setup preset, correct?
Never mind. I figured that out. 
Hi, I’m trying to install and add my Amcrest camera to my ST for the first time. But I do not see SETTINGS under MY DEVICE HANDLERS.
Am I missing something here? 
Thanks for the confirmation Dave. I thought they were using cloud-to-cloud… that was the only thing that made sense when you explained your setup. Always good to have the confirmation though. 
Hi Vic,
Yes, you want to setup your presets using the Amcrest Web View utility and then you can use CoRE to execute the correct preset based on the motion sensor.
Enjoy!
Thanks @Belgarion for this DTH. I’m having the same issue as others with the video encoding reverting back to mpeg (with lower resolution) from h264 after using the camera in the smartthings android app. Has anybody found a fix?
What channel do you use for Video Channel?
Plus as above i get mpeg. how can I view higher video quality
@Belgarion can i use an Amcrest IPM-722S Bullet camera with this app of your? I can’t get the video to work? Thanks
According to the spec sheet this bullet camera supports 720P video streaming through CGI, so my guess would be “yes”. I do not own one of these bullet cameras, so I can not test it our for you. Does it work in the Amcrest Web View app?
Hi Seth,
My DTH does expose the motion detection switch, so I am not sure what is missing. The log entries you have listed do not look familiar to me. Which model of the Amcrest camera are you using? Can youpaste a screen capture of the logs (minus any identifying information)?
Correct. You should be able to create a virtual toggle and tie that to the toggleMotion and use that as your enable/disable. You could also use CoRE and a virtual switch to enable/disable.
Hi Seth,
Sorry to hear that you are having problems with the motion detection.
I am curious… when you turn the motion dection on using the CORE piston, did you then go to the Amcrest Web View tools and confirm that the camera has motion detection enabled? I have noticed in my setup that toggling the motion detection does enable the motion detection but the camera does not always respond right waway.
Okay, thx for the feedback. I will try to test this out when I get home and see if I can figure out what is going on with the motion sensor button.
Hi Seth,
So, I just set up my email settings on 1 of my cameras and had it send a test email to confirm it works, which it did and it does.
I then ran the Amcrest Web View tool and connected to the local IP of the camera and confirmed that I had the “Video Detection” under event set so that the “Motion Detect” tab should that it was not enabled.
I went into the DTH for this camera and confirmed that the motion detect icon was grayed out, confirming it thought the camera motion detection was disabled.
I then turned on motion detect in the DTH and it went green (good).
I went back to the Amcrest Web View and changed views (in and out of Event → Video Detection) and confirmed the “Enable” box was now checked.
I walked out to the camera and came back into my office and received an email alert, including a snapshot attachment, within seconds.
While I did not try to enable it with a CoRE Piston (I will try that next), the enabling of the Motion Detection is definitely working for me.
I just created a simple Piston in CoRE that reacts when a Simulated Switch “changes”, which calls my “toggleMotion” function and it enables/disables the motion detection as expected.
Maybe this is a configuration issue? Or a code version issue?
What version of the DTH are you running?
Okay, priorities and all. 
When you have everything up and running if you decide to tackle this again let me know and I will try to help.
I will do a code compare to what I have locally and what I have on GitHub to see if there are any differences.
Good luck!
Hi David,
First of all I would like to thank you for a great code.
I followed your instructions and got the Amcrest IP2M-841 to work last night. I’m getting the video and audio through RTSP. However I can’t get the PTZ, and the preset to work.
I’m able to control it through the native Amcrest app.
For connection, it is done through DDNS.
Below is the log that I got. Hopefully you can help me to figure out what I did wrong.
Thank you.
Hi Mike,
I am using DDNS on one of my IP2M-841 cameras and the presets, PTZ and snapshots are all working fine. Let’s see if we can figure out what is going on with your setup.
You mentioned that you have the RTSP video stream working, so I assume you exposed port 554 on your router. However, all of the other functionality, including PTZ, work off of the HTTP port. Can you even get a snapshot? Did you confirm that the port you entered in the “config” settings of my DTH match the port that you exposed on your router?
The default port 80 is almost always only used with a local IP, so people typically associate a different port (like “8081” for CAM-1, “8082” for CAM-2, etc.) to their individual cameras and have their router forward the incoming data packets to the correct local IP on port 80.
Let’s start there and see where we get to. If you are still having issues, please turn on the debug mode and paste in the appropriate Live Logging trap for a PTZ command, commenting out any sensitive information of course.
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Hi David,
I was able to fix my problem after reading your message.Thank you.
My mistake was setting the port in your DTH to 554 and left the camera HTTP port at 80.
Thanks again.
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Played around with this today. I set up Rule Machine to move the camera to a specific preset using the custom commands when certain motion sensors and doors are opened. Pretty awesome and works perfectly.
I have 1 camera that covers my whole downstairs, living room and kitchen, but I’m constantly moving it when I’m logging in remotely to check on the dogs and etc. So I set it up to move to preset 1 when the front door or garage door is opened and to move to preset 2 when the backyard sliding glass door is opened.
So cool!!
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Can this device be integrated with SMH? I searched but couldn’t find any info??