I have foscam cameras. If I don’t have a password setup how would I put the url in smart tiles?
I noticed something else with my foscam cameras. I have in using the blueiris url, I use blueiris to record. When the cameras are on the dashboard it causes at least one of them to loose video feed to blueiris which causes the signal lose in the dashboard also.
I was going to try using the foscam url but I don’t have a password on my camers. Every time I tried to add a password to my cameras using the foscam Web interface it would lock me out of the cameras for some reason. In the foscam url for the dashboard can you leave the password empty?
I’m not recording video from my foscam 8921 v2, but to get it to work with ActION/SmartTiles I ahd to configure the secondary video stream to mjpeg and am accessing that (rather than the primary rtsp) from SmartTiles. In theory, BlueIris or similar recorder should be able to access the primary stream while the secondary is used for SmartTiles
Did you happen to try to use secure passwords? I think foscams (at least 8910) don’t like special characters – spaces, punctuations, etc – in the password. And the password cannot be long (don’t remember the limit though). My camera didn’t warn me when I try to set up a secure password, it just didn’t let me log in using that password.
I was using a 13 char password before, maybe that is the issue. I will try a shorter one next time. Didn’t give me any warning that it was to long. Just once it was setup and reset I couldn’t access the camera anymore. I have a weird issue now where looking at my router it doesn’t see any of my IP cameras but if I type in the IP address I remembered for each one I can access them and blueiris can still see them along with actiON dashboard. Really weird. I think I will just reset them all and start from scratch.
this is what I have for my foscam 8910
http://ip:port/videostream.cgi?user=userName&pwd=password&resolution=32&rate=0
so without user/password you would try something like this below
http://ip:port/videostream.cgi?resolution=32&rate=0
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I use the same thing as @Navat604 with a non-hd foscam and have a password setup. I cannot however get it to work using the blue iris url if I have a password setup thru BI. SmartTiles does not show anything.
Just a heads up. Firefox 37 onwards no longer supports MJPEG streams. Like from Blue Iris web server. Only displays first image. Conformed on Mac and Windows and also Firefox 38 beta.
Looks like Chrome is the last remaining common browser to support MJPEG in the dashboard.
Is this a bug or a feature? Do you think refreshing the stream to get “burst”/“stop motion” stream is a reasonable workaround?
I couldn’t find any open bugs for the issue when I searched the other night. There were some closed bugs from years past. I’m thinking it could be a security related change.
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Maybe some js to reload every 1/5 of a second would be good enough. I didn’t read into the burst workaround I saw in one of the older threads so not sure. Basically it shows current image on load then freezes. So rapid refresh should work. I’m just using Chrome now which is pain when I have another session open with IDE. But not the end of the world. There must be a lot of workarounds out there since loads of older IP cameras use MJPEG.
BTW, Blue Iris web server outputs some better stream formats as well (h.264). Only problem is you need some kind of player/Java to wrap around it. http://www.cam-it.org/index.php?topic=2136.0
This is an option, but I don’t want to kill your server with 300 requests per minute.
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Per video tile I presume. 
Are the “light” tiles supposed to work with Hue lights? Tiles show lights as on when they are not.
Yes, they should work. However, if ST is not aware of Hue state chance, SmartTiles would not be aware of that either.
If you think the dashboard state is out of sync, check whether ST mobile app is actually displaying the sate properly. This is true for Sonos and other “Labs” devices.
I have a D-Link DCS-942L Cloud Cam working with SmartTiles using
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:zzzz/video/mjpg.cgi
where xxx is the IP address and zzzz is the port the camera is assigned to
Anyone happen to use webcam connected in yawcam. To view in thru yawcam is http://ipaddress:port then prompt with user and pass.I tried it in smarttile but doesn’t work. Maybe it will work if I got the correct url.
@eldsl35 Are you using your local IP address? Or are you using your public IP address and forwarding a port on your router?
I don’t have a yawcam but try
http://ip:port/video.mjpeg=USERNAME&-pwd=PASSWORD
I am port forwarding on my router.
I only use local address for my dashboard.