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Just to add some additional information to this thread. I discovered through some googling that Amcrest cameras are rebranded Dahua models (any maybe also some other manufacturers?); the IP8M-T2499 in particular is a Dahua model. I got hold of a Dahua 8MP Zoom camera ( DH-IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA, running f...

I am looking for a camera with Zoom capability. Since I have a bunch of Amcrest cameras I was looking at the IP8M-2454EW Before I buy one: has anyone been able to reliably use the web interface to capture snapshots at the full 8MP resolution? I ask because, as documented in other threads, I've run i...

Another point to add to this: The problem is somewhat intermittent, depending on the configured resolution. For example, my IP8M-T2499 configured at 2688x1520 ran fine for awhile this morning, and then started failing solidly, with the 400 errors. I'm wondering if the problem is related to motion de...

Update on this issue. 1. WRT to some of the responses above: I am using HTTP GET to retrieve the snapshots, using the URL discovered through ONVIF. I wouldn't be surprised is snapshots saved to SD, FTP or EMAIL behave differently, but that's not the configuration I'm using. 2. As noted on March 27 I...

Update: After playing around with a bunch of things I've discovered that the problem is related to video resolution. If I set the resolution on the main stream (which also sets snapshot resolution) to 2304x1296 or lower, then snapshot retrieval works. Anything higher and it fails. So lowering the re...

If you're interested I can give you a python script I use. Takes some hand editing to set up the URLs and user/pwds but it works pretty well for grabbing a snapshot every second from 1/2 dozen cameras - other than for cameras with buggy snapshot support like this one.

As a follow up to this: a. I should add that the most common failure is an HTTP 400 code returned after a 10-20 second delay b. I've been doing some testing with the built in scheduled snapshot support, storing the snapshot images on my NAS via NFS. I successfully got that set up, configured to take...

I just got an IP8M-T2499EW and am having problems retrieving snapshots. I am using the URL learned through ONVIF (below). The problem I am seeing is that it works occasionally but mostly the HTTP GET hangs or returns no data. The camera is working: I can see video when I access it through the contro...