Hello all. I have just purchased a new webcam as above but cannot get it to show on Web Cam Capture. I have been using a Foscam on 192.x.x.x.x on Port 80 (http) but that has become unreliable hence the new one. I’ve tried to set up the new one and I know the camera is working as I can see its o/p on the Reolink client software. Reading on line I see that all Reolink cameras use port 9000 which is a media port but that’s not an option in Web Cam Capture? Using Advanced IP Scanner, it tells me that The Reolink camera uses HTTP Port 80 which is what I expected. I’ve tried port forwarding on the hardware firewall and checked that the reolink software wasn’t blocked in my Internet Security Software Firewall. I cannot create a forwarding rule for Reolink as Port 80 is already being used by another piece of hardware on the network. I’ve pinged the camera on the network and that’s ok. Anyone have any ideas please? :?
Once you have your webcam setup you should be able to use that URL in a web browser to get the image off the camera. Once you have figured out what url you need to use for your camera, substitute in the username, password and then drop the line into the address bar of the browser. If it all works you should see an image from your camera.
At that point you are looking for a place you can slot in a URL. In Weather Display there is a “IP Camera” tab, which has a place for the URL to go in.
If you are setting it up on the Raspberry Pi, let me know and I will ping you the link to instructions on my website. Hope that helps!
There was a time when Brian was adding ONVIF, i do not know how far he got with it mind. Theres an app in the WD folder called ONVIF demo, this is it below, that’s my reolink, but that’s as far as i can get with it. It asks for the user and pass and i add it and that’s all it does. Perhaps there’s more to that I’m not aware of or it needs more work.
Thanks for your reply which is on the right track!! I remember now that I once used a Sheeva Plug with Meteohub s/w in conjunction with WD software and remember a similar URL to display the camera o/p on Web Cam Capture. Because Meteohub s/w was no longer being supported, I switched to a Raspberry setup with Meteobridge s/w and somewhere in the rejig I was able to display the camera o/p using an TCPip address. I will now have a play with your suggestion and will let you know how I got on but many thanks indeed for pointing me in the right direction!
Hi there. I’m not too far away from you geographically, just over the border in NE Suffolk. I’m using a Raspberry Pi with Meteobridge s/w which in the main is working ok. I don’t thing my Reolink camera supports ONVIF but thanks for mentioning it. I’m going to follow Andrew’s suggestion first, but may follow up on your suggestion if that’s ok with you. I do very much appreciate your help. I will post again to keep you up to date with progress so thank you v. much for your help.
Hi, just looked on the map, Huntingfield, that the one on the way to Southwold?
Most if not all the Reo’s can use ONVIF, but don’t try with the WD setup, it does not do anything other than tell you the details of the camera, such as ports etc, i cant get it to add the camera or out like that, would have been cool seeing the cameras live stream.
ONVIF is just a simple way to add the camera to the software, take TinyIP Cam i think its called, i have it on my Fire TV Cube and all my android devices, all you have to do is click scan and it will scan the network for any ONVIF cameras and if it finds any it will add it automatically, all you have to do then is add the user and password and if you want the lower quality stream, you change that to 2.
RE the other option that you’re going to use, if you find that the top quality is too much, you can change the to the lower res stream by adding the resolution at the end, see the last URL example below
You may capture live images of your cameras by entering the URL into a web browser.
The URL should be:
http://(ip address)/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=0&rs=(any combination of numbers and letters)&user=(user name)&password=(user password)
For example, if your IP address is 192.168.2.119, the username is admin and the password is 123456, then the URL should be:
http://192.168.2.119/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=0&rs=wuuPhkmUCeI9WG7C&user=admin&password=123456
You may refresh the website to get a new snapshot of your live image.
Note: If you want to get the JPEG snap of the substream, please add resolution( width and height) at the end of the URL.
refer to: http://192.168.2.119/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=0&rs=wuuPhkmUCeI9WG7C&user=admin&password=123456&width=640&height=480
