Foscam address question

[mm5300]

I just installed a Foscam FI8918W camera in my house. I was able to set up port forwarding and have been successful in getting the login screen on both my desktops and using the IP address on my phone. Is there an full address that can be used where you can input the user/pwd in the URL to skip the login screen? I tried a few I found online, but only the snapshot one seems to work. I'd like to get streaming video from it and have the pan/tilt options that the built-in software offers. Thanks.

 

[electron]

The syntax for user authentication via URL is http://user[email protected] , but the device has to support this kind of authentication, so if that doesn't work, chances are you won't get it working at all.

 

[mm5300]

I know this works for a snapshot picture http://xx.xx.xx.xx:86/snapshot.cgi?user=admin&pwd=, but I was hoping to find something that would let me use the Safari browser to get directly into the webcontrol software that the camera has.

 

[pete_c]

There is both a snapshot CGI and a streaming CGI commands on the Foscam FI8918W. I use the snapshot with HS's Netcam program and the streaming with Zoneminder. I am able to do 640X480 streaming on the garage cam but only at about 4 FPS after making adjustments to the ZM buffers.

I also utilize a ZM control perl script to do PT and for the three light settings on the camera.

for streaming (default):

http://www.xxx.yyy.zzz/videostream.cgi?user=admin&pwd=

for snapshot

http://www.xxx.yyy.zzz/snapshot.cgi?user=admin&pwd=

The camera OS is less than nice; as I can lock up the camera by changing the light and moving it at the same time. If you attach a serial JTAG cable to it to "watch" via console port you'll notice that there are many errors in the code running the camera with somewhat blind ends to it. No firmware or UI upgrade has "fixed" this. I think what happened with my ZM setup is that the camera doesn't appear to always send out a full frame before starting to send the next frame; thus leaving incomplete frames which really isn't noticible with IE or FF. Using the wireless interface makes the camera work even harder and thus issues relating to dropped frames.

The good though is that they added LEDs / made them brighter on this model versus previous model and it does light up my garage in near total darkness. Have a look though towards the camera in darkness and you can actually see the LEDs ghostly glow (like many eyes peering down).

I also attempted to change the older model lens to a wider angle lens. The lens worked fine; difficult to install though because the barrel of the lens went inside past the LED ring to focus. Because of this the camera was blinded with the LED's on from the periferal of the lens. I made a small little cardboard cutout which helped with the blinding piece but cut down the FOV.

Attached is a picture the view from the Foscam FI8918W in the garage connected via Cat5E.

 

[electron]

I guess I should correct myself. I was talking about systems designed with 'some' security in mind. Being able to specify your user/pass as part of the URL is a bad and insecure implementation, and not many products allow you to do this.

 

[pete_c]

I proxy all of my cams thru Zoneminder with no access to any cams directly from outside of the network and its only one IP / login for 11 cams.