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Support for Foscam FI8918W IP Camera
I have a few of theses and would like to add them.
The Panasonics work very well so far.
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The Panasonics work very well so far.
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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.Could you share your curl script, maybe on github or something public, and how do you detect the stream address? I have a very cheap chinese PAN camera. I want to buy a better HD IP cam but I am always interested in alternative approaches to integrate directly as you are doing at the moment
- Hello, Please advise me a couple models of IP camera compatible with x86 readynas, which have 3G simcard slot, or USB port for 3G USB modem. Please help.
- Interesting to me that this thread has the most comments and the response as provided earlier was the Foscam is too small to add support.
I installed the product today - looking for an alternative to my PC based NVR and when I went to add my 1st camera - not supported (despite the claim of over 1500 camera's supported). Also no product update in a while - is Netgear serious about this software?
Foscam has been providing lower cost IP camera that a LOT of people are buying. Netgear needs to add support as well as show support for this product by continuing to update it and add new camera's capabilities.
Please reconsider your support for Foscam devices. Please add simple command line support for mjpeg/h264 capture for other devices that are not in your list. - I joined the forum just so I could also request support for the Foscam range of camera's.
I am actually really disappointed in Netgear for the lack of support to such a widely used product such as Foscam's Cameras. I purchased a ReadyNAS 102 based on the idea that there was support with the Surveillance app, and so far I am regretting my purchase. I ended up with nothing more than a device to store my hard drives and keep them warm at night. 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.- For the interested people out there, below is all the setuop i did to make this work :
DISCLAIMER :
-I'm an amateur with limited knowledge of linux, things could be more optimised, but it works for me, so who cares :)
-You need root ssh access, and you need to know what you are doing, i'm not responsible if you screw something because you didn't know what you were doing while being root.
-Before trying anything, you have to understand what each command does exactly, it's mandatory as you may have to tweak some commands to suit your NAS and needs.
1- This is my crontab, comments are below :
#! /bin/bash
*/5 * * * * /opt/recordfoscam.sh
0 */6 * * * /opt/trifoscam.sh
50 */6 * * * /opt/transfertfoscam.sh
0 3 * * * /opt/nettoyagefoscam.sh
@reboot /usr/bin/nohup /usr/bin/java -jar /opt/Skifta/Skifta.jar -start & > /dev/null
-recordfoscam.sh is my record command file, executed every 5 minutes (it records the videostreams, and stop the recording after 5 minutes)
-trifoscam.sh is the command file which sorts the video files (moves videos associated to snapshots, and join the snapshots), executed every 6 hours
-transferforscam.sh moves the rest of the videos to a short save directory, executed 50 minutes after trifoscam.
-nettoyagefoscam.sh deletes the oldest videos and snapshots, everyday at 3am.
-last command is the launch of skifta at startup (the skifta addon doesn't work, i had to install the linux version, for more info, see the skifta official forum)
2-recordfoscam.sh (i have 2 cameras, one in my garage, one in my appartment)
#!/bin/bash
DOSS1="/USB/USB_FLASH_1/appart/"
NEW_NAME="appart"$(date +%d)"."$(date +%m)"."$(date +%y)"-hour"$(date +%H)"-"$(date +%M)".avi"
/usr/local/bin/curl -s -m 301 -o $DOSS1$NEW_NAME http://192.168.XXX.XXX:XXX/videostream.asf?user=XXXX\&pwd=XXXX & sleep 1
DOSS2="/USB/USB_FLASH_1/garage/"
NEW_SAME="garage"$(date +%d)"."$(date +%m)"."$(date +%y)"-hour"$(date +%H)"-"$(date +%M)".avi"
/usr/local/bin/curl -s -m 301 -o $DOSS2$NEW_SAME http://192.168.XXX.XXX:XXX/videostream.asf?user=XXXX\&pwd=XXXX & sleep 1
As you can see :
-i record in my USB stick in 2 separate folders.
-the XXX have to be replaced with your camera IP adress and port
-the XXXX have to be replaced with your camera login and password
-the curl command records exactly 301 seconds of video from each camera
-The url was changed when i updated the camera firmware, befor it was something like http://login:pass@ip:port/videostream.asf
-the video files names are something like : garage28.08.14-hour12-05 (variables NEW_NAME and NEW_SAME)
3-trifoscam.sh :
#!/bin/bash
DOSS10="/USB/USB_FLASH_1/garage/"
DOSS20="/c/Foscam/garage-tri/"
DOSS30="/c/Foscam/8910garage/"
NUMPIC=0
cd "$DOSS30" ; for y in *.* ; do NUMPIC=$((NUMPIC+1)) ; mv "$y" "$NUMPIC".jpg ; done
for y in *.* ; do mv "$y" "$y"-8910.jpg ; done
for x in "$DOSS10"*.* ; do temps1=$(stat -c %Y $x) ; for y in "$DOSS30"*.* ; do temps2=$(stat -c %Y $y) ; age=$((temps2-temps1)) ; age=${age#-} ; if [ $age -lt 700 ] ; then mv $x "$DOSS20" ; break ; fi ; done ; done
DOSS10="/USB/USB_FLASH_1/appart/"
DOSS20="/c/Foscam/appart-tri/"
DOSS30="/c/Foscam/8916appart/"
NUMPIC=0
cd "$DOSS30" ; for y in *.* ; do NUMPIC=$((NUMPIC+1)) ; mv "$y" "$NUMPIC".jpg ; done
for y in *.* ; do mv "$y" "$y"-8916.jpg ; done
for x in "$DOSS10"*.* ; do temps1=$(stat -c %Y $x) ; for y in "$DOSS30"*.* ; do temps2=$(stat -c %Y $y) ; age=$((temps2-temps1)) ; age=${age#-} ; if [ $age -lt 700 ] ; then mv $x "$DOSS20" ; break ; fi ; done ; done
As you can see :
-the snapshots orignial name length is too long, i have to rename them before issuing the comparison command, it's a bit bothersome, but i hadn't found a way around.
-in this example, i keep all videos which timestamp is within 700 seconds of the snapshots (as i have the video recording, my camera setting is one snapshot every 150 seconds when there is movement, to reduce the numbers of snapshots)
4-tranfertfoscam.sh :
#!/bin/bash
DOSS11="/USB/USB_FLASH_1/garage/"
DOSS21="/c/Foscam/garage/"
for x in "$DOSS11"*.* ; do temps1=$(stat -c %Y $x) ; temps2=$(date +%s) ; age=$((temps2-temps1)) ; if [ $age -gt 3600 ] ; then mv $x "$DOSS21" ; fi ; done
DOSS11="/USB/USB_FLASH_1/appart/"
DOSS21="/c/Foscam/appart/"
for x in "$DOSS11"*.* ; do temps1=$(stat -c %Y $x) ; temps2=$(date +%s) ; age=$((temps2-temps1)) ; if [ $age -gt 3600 ] ; then mv $x "$DOSS21" ; fi ; done
As you can see :
-There is another timestamp comparison (this time only the file age, greater than 1 hour), this is to process only the file that have been processed by the previous commands (remember this cronjob is executed 50 minutes after the sorting)
-I merely move those file to another folder, but if you don't want to keep them at all, you can just delete them.
5-nettoyagefoscam.sh :
#!/bin/bash
cd /c/Foscam/
DOSS111="/c/Foscam/appart/"
DOSS121="/c/Foscam/garage/"
cd "$DOSS111" ; for x in *.* ; do temps1=$(stat -c %Y $x) ; temps2=$(date +%s) ; age=$((temps2-temps1)) ; if [ $age -gt 432000 ] ; then rm -f $x ; fi ; done
cd "$DOSS121" ; for x in *.* ; do temps1=$(stat -c %Y $x) ; temps2=$(date +%s) ; age=$((temps2-temps1)) ; if [ $age -gt 432000 ] ; then rm -f $x ; fi ; done
DOSS111="/c/Foscam/appart-tri/"
DOSS121="/c/Foscam/garage-tri/"
DOSS131="/c/Foscam/8916appart/"
DOSS141="/c/Foscam/8910garage/"
cd "$DOSS111" ; for x in *.* ; do temps1=$(stat -c %Y $x) ; temps2=$(date +%s) ; age=$((temps2-temps1)) ; if [ $age -gt 2160000 ] ; then rm -f $x ; fi ; done
cd "$DOSS121" ; for x in *.* ; do temps1=$(stat -c %Y $x) ; temps2=$(date +%s) ; age=$((temps2-temps1)) ; if [ $age -gt 2160000 ] ; then rm -f $x ; fi ; done
cd "$DOSS131" ; for x in *.* ; do temps1=$(stat -c %Y $x) ; temps2=$(date +%s) ; age=$((temps2-temps1)) ; if [ $age -gt 2160000 ] ; then rm -f $x ; fi ; done
cd "$DOSS141" ; for x in *.* ; do temps1=$(stat -c %Y $x) ; temps2=$(date +%s) ; age=$((temps2-temps1)) ; if [ $age -gt 2160000 ] ; then rm -f $x ; fi ; done
-First block is the generic video streams kept 5 days (432000 seconds)
-Second block is the interesting videos kept 25 days (2160000 seconds)
-WARNING : make sure that you're in the good folder before using rm -f (the other remove commands prompt for a confirmation when deleting several files in a loop, so only rm -f seemed to work for me, but i made sure i was in the videos folder before using the loop full power)
If you have questions, feel free to ask.need some support for this? so many other no-name cameras supported but not foscam? bit confused.
was trying the 30 days free, looks like no support for Foscam , means mays as well uninstall.....
Still no support for foscam devices, which is really quite ignnorant of the developers maintaining support of ReadyNAS servaliance..
For anybodies reference, the Foscam firmware is quite standard across models, you can often find the stream on http://ip_of_cam/videostream.cgi?user=***&pwd=***
similalry, replace videostream.cgi with videostream.asf if the model used supports sound.I really don't understand why netgear thinks these cameras are not wide spread enough, they are literally everywhere, Ebuyer sells Xenta camers extremely cheaply, which are actually just re-badged FOSCAMs with a badly translated Web interface! same URLS and Resoruces are still there and available, among the 100's of other cheap clones.
Forgive me for bing a bit upset but somebody inside netgear needs a very hard slap across the face! just dropping in a "Custom" camera that lets you set your own video stream paramiters would solve the issue. or at the very least with this information add a Generic Foscam option!!!. >:(
I know this is old post but you all can give KUDOS here !! !
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