@Stroh : HikVision’s camera’s have NAS support built in. I can specify multiple destinations, format the destination, control disk space quota’s, etc all from within the software. It also has built in motion control, alarm functions, line crossing, etc. Lots of power in these devices, which is why after the first, I had to have a second. Intend to get two more in the future.
Sounds like that is what I am looking for. What model did you find was the price vs feature breakpoint?
This is the dome I just went with, and now prefer. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ESK3LKY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have used the equivalent Bullet, with no issue—it just doesn’t support memory card.
I use hambridge. ST on motion detection tells hambridge to fire off a jpeg grab from my ipcameras (Axis, hikvision, etc.) and pushbullet the image to my phone. It would be nice if ST could skip hambridge and do the same HTTP GET command to the local IP of the camera. I’d like to do a photo burst with this method as well.
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ST can do that, check out my generic camera devicetype for the details.
That is most excellent. Thank you
Using the above mentioned device I was able to view my axis camera in ST (Great work btw). Now I’m trying to figure out how to send the images as notifications. I’ve tried Photo Burst 1 and 2 and I get IOS push notifications and text messages from the app but it’s only text with no images. I looked into pushbullet for ST but it doesn’t look like it support images (only text and notes). Anyone have any suggestions on what I’m missing or doing wrong with Photo burst or a better app to use?
I know it does not answer your question about sending a notification, but the last 10 or 15 images should be stored in the carousel. I use Photo Burst and when I get a notification, I open up the SmartThings app and then I can see the photos taken on the camera device page.
Aaaah that helps, Thank you
Yeah, sending images via notifications is not going to happen with a local hubaction. There are some ways to do it with email, but those are complicated as well. Unfortunately, the S3 implementation is locked down so accessing the image outside the mobile app is damn near impossible without uploading it / putting it somewhere else.
Can any camera display live video in ST ?
I have foscams but would be willing to buy a camera that works.
I want to have a smart app that lets me watch live video and take certain actions (via tiles in same app) as I am watching. Still images can work if I can update them quickly as in refresh every few seconds.
No. ST doesn’t have live video support as of today.
Only still images that can be triggered or at a push of a button.
OK so what is the best (fastest update) camera for still images.
I have tried the various foscam threads on this community but never manage to make them work. There seems to be so many variations of device code I never trust the one I am testing so when it doesn’t work I tend to give up.
Knowing one will work with my FI9826W or my FI8910W would be a great start.
Should I try yours 
https://github.com/pstuart/smartthings/blob/master/generic_camera.groovy
Mine works with essentially any camera that has an image url. Speed isn’t a matter of camera or devicetype it is a matter of ISP connection and latency.
Current Image processing with ST is like this:
hub sends url request to camera
camera response with jpeg image back to hub (or cloud if publicly available)
hub streams response back up to cloud (amazon s3 bucket)
Mobile app accesses s3 bucket in image tile
So, the roundtrip is how fast your connection can get the image up to AWS S3 and then back down to mobile app.
and here i thought i was the only one who did that… 
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Just curious if there is anyway to trace the execution steps to troubleshoot delay? From my local computer, iPad and iPhone, the response time from my cameras are 1/8 second or less for a jpg. No corruption, no long poll times ever. A remote pulling a jpg over att LTE, Internet, through my Comcast cable modem to the cameras are under 1 second consistently, no drops no corruption. Add smartthings hub and cloud in the path, and all the sudden the jpg’s take anywhere from 10s to 60s, they also fail to retrieve over 80% of the time or get corrupted 10% of the time. I could use some advice.
Have you checked your MTU size of your ISP?
Standard 1500. unless smart things is running jumbo frames and set do not fragment, there should be no issues.
I suppose I could run wire shark and look at the packets, just haven’t yet.
My images are about 1-3 secs delayed, most of the delay seems to be on the mobile side. What mobile device are you using? Are you running ipv6 with Comcast and android? There are known issues right now with that.
strong possibility, I do have an IPv6 tunnel over Comcast. Any way I can disable IPv6 attempts on just smart things? I can disable it all or nothing on my firewall, and don’t really want to do that. I need IPv6 when working from home.