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Author Topic: [HowTo] Add Tenvis 3815 IP Camera to HomeGenie  (Read 2091 times)

April 08, 2015, 05:01:41 PM
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mkw87

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I just installed HomeGenie last night while I was waiting for my EVL-3 board to come in the mail so I can hopefully interface with my security system which is a DSC PC1616 board.  In the meantime, I wanted to find some software to start working on home automation.  Once I found HomeGenie, I wanted to see if the IP cameras I bought a couple years ago would work, and sure enough they do.  They are made by Tenvis, model 3815 (Amazon link).

There's 4 ways to interface with the camera, but I only tried the jpg route.  To add the camera:

1. Navigate to Configure > Automation and Programs > Devices and Things, and make sure that Generic IP Camera is checked. 

2. Now navigate to Configure > Groups and Modules and select the group you want to add the cameras to.  I created a new group called Cameras. 

3. Next select Actions > Add Module

4. From the dropdown list scroll until you see Media.IpCamera and select one of the unused Sensor slots.

5. Provide a name for the camera.  Leave the Features/Options as Generic IP Camera.

6. For the camera image API URL, I did a quick google and found the following works well:

http://[IPADDRESS]/snapshot.cgi?user=&pwd=&count=0

[USERNAME] is the username and [PASSWORD] is the password you have configured for the camera.  The following URLs are also listed as supported by this camera but I was fine with the JPG link working.  I didn't test them.

FFMPEG http://[IPADDRESS]/videostream.asf?user=[USERNAME]&pwd=[PASSWORD]&resolution=32&rate=0

FFMPEG http://[IPADDRESS]/videostream.asf?user=[USERNAME]&pwd=[PASSWORD]&resolution=64&rate=0

FFMPEG rtsp://[IPADDRESS]:554//12


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