IP Camera Streaming

[Maximo]

Recently I replaced my CCTV DVR unit, more power and more cameras. As HomeGenie has an IP Camera widget I was hoping to create a centralize solution for my home. Unfortunately the camera stream from my DVR doesn't appear to be supported. Hopefully someone far more clever than me can point me in the right direction, that is if it's possible to make my stream work.

To view my stream with VLC; rtsp://192.168.1.15:8854/live0.264

Thanks

Garry

[mvdarend]

HomeGenie works with camera snapshots, does your camera also have a snapshot URL?

[Maximo]

I'm not sure that the DVR does snapshots, it took me a lot of digging to get hold of the url for streaming. I'll see what I can find by digging further.

Thanks

[kevin1]

What camera systems are/were you using, what features do you like about them?  Do they provide any way to detect motion and report that to an alarm system (or HG)? 

I've contemplated getting a camera system, but don't have an easy way to pull all the wires (tall 2 story home and haven't found any openings from attic to basement for running cables).  Currently I just use an old android phone with IP Webcam app when we leave home for more than a day. 

Thanks!!!

[Maximo]

I'm using a Floureon H.264 DVR unit with a number of cameras. The cables are quite small and can be hidden easy enough. All of my servers and network are in the garage so all of the cables head that way. I'm currently using ispyconnect for my CCTV server, which works well but doesn't interface with HomeGenie.

[kevin1]

Cool, thanks!  Does ispyconnect access each of the Floureon cameras individually, or does it just see the output of the Floureon (which might be one camera, cycling through cameras every few seconds, or multiple cameras split screen simultaneously)?

Possible solution to your question.... ispyconnect seems to have a web server builtin which might have ability to stream a picture feed for homegenie.  http://www.ispyconnect.com/userguide-connecting.aspx

Looks like ispyconnect also has some ability to trigger alert actions when motion is detected.  I don't know about the details, but this page shows calling a URL as an action:  http://www.ispyconnect.com/userguide-alerts.aspx

That URL could potentially trigger the HG security system alarm (I don't think this will work with default HG, but the HG security system program could be tweaked to enable this):
  http://192.168.1.1/api/HomeGenie.SecuritySystem/HomeGenie.SecurityTriggered

[Maximo]

Most DVR units broadcast a stream per camera so you can setup each camera in ispyconnect separately, although some units take a little bit of digging to find the streams. Using ispyconnect you can have various cameras all in one central location, have a search of the camera database they've built up.

Using the web interface of ispyconnect to then pass into HomeGenie add's in a little complexity and there could make both solutions unreliable. Having a single source for both HA and CCTV is a solution I'd like to aim for.

I believe there is also an API available, so there are ways and means of getting the two applications talking to each other.

[KaZe]

Hi!

I have 2 IP camera with rtsp stream. I read on this post, that the HG only can use snapshot. Someone could convert rtsp stream to snapshot stream?