Amcrest to Raspberry Pi via FTP?

[stevecon]

Hi all..

I'm new to Raspberry Pi but have managed to set up a a 4TB external hard disk accessible on RPi v3 accessible via FTP. I have everything working 100% from a Win10 PC running Filezilla to log in to the RPi, upload and download to the desired drive/directory on the 4TB disk. So, it appears permissions, etc. are OK.

However, when testing the connection within the Amcrest Set Up page to the FTP server - it fails (so far, I'm just attempting to get this to work on LAN - Camera: 192.168.1.22 & RPi: 192.168.1.25). I have copied and pasted the destination folder from Filezilla into the Amcrest the destination folder input box. I have tried repeatedly in many different variations of other variables - but all fail. I get an authentication error when I supply a bad username / password; so I have to believe that I'm supplying the correct username / password and am at least getting to the RPi. I can't recall the other errors I was getting as this was while I was setting it up offsite yesterday. I wonder - Has anyone managed to get a Raspberry Pi v3, FTP, external HD and Amcrest cameras to connect and work? And, how did you do it??

Thanks in advance!

[AndyStewart]

If you can support RSTP streaming onto the Pi, then try the following?

RSTP URL will be rstp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0

User ID will be admin, and password will be whatever you set when you set up the camera (this is me talking from point of view of what I did setting up the AD110 doorbell)

I think the other Amcrest IP cameras should allow this via their web interface?

I have the Onvifer app on android that works perfectly this way, and also QNAP Surveillance Station on my NAS that also works well.

Hope that helps

[smokeybandit]

Are you trying this via the "test" button? That, at least for a long time, always failed.

Try forcing some event to cause it to do the FTP, see if that works.

[mattandmarie]

What files are you trying to move onto the raspberry pi?
I've written a python3 script that utilizes the Amcrest api to download the files from the previous hour. Crontab it and done... PM me if you are interested in setting it up.

[danwithacam]

I'm also interested in this so replying to keep track.

I've not been successful in my attempts so far (because I only have a gen1 pi which isn't powerful enough to run its own browser let alone handle video files), but I was looking at using Rclone or something of the sort to host an FTP server and then relay the incoming footage to Backblaze B2.

[mattandmarie]

I have the pi download the files off the camera once per hour. Then it rclones them using WebDAV to a different pi that is running NextCloud, but B2 would work also.