Support for Foscam FI8918W IP Camera

tiranor wrote:

rob230 wrote: Is this product dead now? Would be nice if we could just add simple stream urls like IPADDRESS/videostream.cgi?user=admin&pwd=psd that we know work :? As i have 2 Foscam ip cams, i don't want to spend so much money for something i'm not sure is supported. ATM, i directly record the videostream on my NAS, via the curl function, and a cron job. The only downside is that it records everything, and not just when there is a movement. Maybe i'll try later to create another cron job to erase all videos not linked to any snapshot done directly by the camera software.

Many things changed since then.

The constant recording using curl killed 2 HDD of ny NAS (2nd one 2 months after the first one). It was required that i review all my system. Now, what it does :
-I plugged a 16GB usb stick to my NAS.
-a cronjob with curl records constantly to the usb stick (completely rewritten with the new firmwares from foscam). The camera own softare records snapshots to the usb stick.
-Every 6 hours, a cronjob moves (and not copy) the videos linked to snapshots (comparison of timestamps) to a specific folder, and join the snapshots.
-Right after that, another cronjob moves the rest of the videos to another folder (the usb stick is empty after that)
-Finally a last cronjob deletes the oldest videos and snapshots daily (all videos are kept 5 days, the snapshots and videos linked are kept 25 days).

I seems to be working quite well since then.