adding live feed to website

[sarmeli]

I have been using 2 foscam camers to show live feeds of a tennis center. The cameras are old so I purchased ip2m-852B camera. I researched and saw some forum responses where these Amcrest cameras could use the same commands. I have the port open and I can get to the camera yet it will not display a snap shot. I am using the secure image display code yet I get " jpg image file is missing from disk" I have tried http://x.x.x.114:1028/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd ... &pwd=xxxxx as well as http://x.x.x.114:1028/snapshot.cgi?&use ... &pwd=xxxxx The cameras http port is set to 1028 What am I doing wrong?? Thanks in advance for your help and input!

[sarmeli]

Does anyone in this forum show a live feed/image from their amcrest camera?

[longedge]

Hello sarmeli and welcome to the forum.

It's not a live feed but I grab snapshots from my 2 IP cameras using http://admin:[email protected]/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi and saving the result to my desktop from where I ftp them to my webspace with static names. I do it manually with a single click using a small application that I made for myself.

I'm sure there are people who achieve what I think you want but by going through a third party site to stream the result. Hopefully someone who knows more about it than I do will come along soon and chime in.

[longedge]

Further to my previous reply, I believe that some people have been able to use VLC to connect to their camera/s by RTSP and then stream that to a web server. It's not something I've tried myself although I have succesfully used this method to record output from a camera to a file on my NAS.

Let us know how you get on.

[sarmeli]

Hi all Thank you for all of your suggestions! I am at a stand still I have asked amcrest support and have not heard back. Longedge said he is using http://admin:[email protected]/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi I keep getting challenged for a username and password with a popup I can not find away to not be asked for username and password. The above doesn't work, I chose allow anonymous tried to create a user without a password nothing works.. I'm still looking : (

[jack7]

To not enter id password, I think you may need some code involving digest authorization. Perhaps using something like https://github.com/jantman/python-amcrest-noauth-proxy

Another way may to configure your camera to FTP snapshots at a desired interval to your website, if your website has a FTP server, can handle the folder and file names that the camera sends, and update a webpage image.

The easiest and fastest way is probably to try a site like this:
https://www.ipcamlive.com/
https://www.ipcamlive.com/faqs
Probably an overkill for you, but it worked well for me when I tried it a while back, and you can test it free for awhile if desired.

[sarmeli]

Thanks jack7 I looked into the github link but unfortunately do not know python.

It looks like I am going to need to rewrite and use some sort of ftp method. Though I'm not sure that will work since I may still be challenged for a user and password. The secureimagedisplay code worked so well...

Amcrest support just emailed me and said they can not help me.

[WillS]

I have been banging my head against the wall on this. Even using the URL http://user:password@host/cgi-bin/mjpg/ ... &subtype=1 Chrome still prompts for a password.

The Python code is old and only supports one camera and has performance issues. This does not appear to be worth trying.

This really sucks.