Raspberry pi and Amcrest 2K remote cam setup

[Devo]

Hello,
I am working on a project where I need to get an Amcrest 2k cam connected to a ras pi 4 via ethernet cable. The pi connects to the web via cellular gsm dongle.I have already worked out power to camera so dont need to address that.

I will be accessing the pi over a vpn network with a laptop. The pi and laptop are already communicating over vpn.

I would like to utilize the amcrest webview app from my laptop to view and control camera.

I need to figure out how to integrate the camera and the pi together

Any help would be appreciated....

Thank you

[GaryOkie]

I'm using Home Assistant on RasPi3 and 4's to monitor security cameras,both POE and Wi-Fi, trigger alerts such as send Telegram pics/videos, and all sorts of other home automation stuff. There is a significant learning curve and would be overkill for just one camera, but if you have hopes of later on managing many more devices and automating your home, it would be well worth looking into. The community and the number of devices supported is incredible.

You can access HA via iOS, Android, or any Web browser to view live RTSP camera streams, control PTZ, record, etc. You don't need a VPN since HA can be securely accessed remotely without it, but it will work either way.

I'm not familiar with connecting cameras directly to a Pi via Ethernet. That doesn't sound right. You normally connect them both to a local network and access the camera via its IP address. The network can be part of your existing home network and optionally segregated with its own subnet and blocked from direct Internet access for security (since you already have VPN working).

[Devo]

So, the project...
I am not using the camera for traditional home security. The camera will be used on a drone. I chose this camera due to the fact that it incorporates a working gimbal.

Hopefully this explains why I only need to connect 1 camera to pi via cable.

[Devo]

I think I will need to set up the pi as a wired router in order for it to assign the camera a static ip

[Devo]

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[GaryOkie]

OH! Wow - a mini-Reaper.

From the Raspberry Pi forum, this might help...
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... hp?t=78676

[Revo2Maxx]

Yeah anything that looks like a MQ-9 I wouldn't be trying to put it in the Sky myself.. Looks cool wish you luck

[amcrest168]

very nice!!

[Devo]

ok so my amcrest cam is connected to my raspberry pi with its own static IP.
I can access the web view app from chromium on the pi itself and I can access the web view app if I connect the camera via ethernet on my home network but I CANT access the web view app if the camera is connected to the pi and I am using my laptop on my home network.

I need to be able to access from outside the network. Please help!

[jack7]

This video has instructions for setting up ddns and port forwarding. If you have a static pi router WAN address, you will not need the ddns part. Just use the WAN address and external port in the laptop Web UI.
https://youtu.be/SZ5ZVEDb8Io