So - I understand that the FI8918W works as it's in a tutorial... But how about the newer high res version FI9821W and FI9831W HD etc? Anyone tried?
Regards /Mans
Thinking of buying a Foscam... Do they all work in the software?
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mazex
posted this
01 February 2014
knelezen
posted this
23 August 2015
I have the FI9831P cameras, and They are NOT able to connect to Incontrol HA software at all.
The plugin for Foscam Cameras is for the older MJPEG cameras ONLY.
I do wish someone would update or write a new plugin for the new HD cameras.
mazex
posted this
31 August 2015
Hi!
As I could not find it I wrote a small script for the Foscam HD cameras that worked for me at least ;) No guarantees and you need to change a bunch of static strings in the start of it.
It will rotate to the position of the triggering device (that you will have to store in your Foscam web GUI with a custom name that is stored in a dictionary). It will then rotate to that position and send emails to you with the images as attachments. The images are also stored in a server dir...
Play around with it - it features quite a lot of loggning so check the IncotrolHA log if it does not work at first! Default location "C:\Program Files (x86)\Moonlit Software, LLC\InControl HA\logfile.txt".
You will have to place the script in the "scripts" sub directory and then execute it when for example a door sensor is triggered when someone opens a door.
I have four doors that are visible from the Foscam HD position so I use a virtual device called "Alarm Armed" that is checked as a condition for all four triggers when the sensors are opened. So if I set "Alarm Armed" all four will be active and then execute the script when someone opens a door. Works really nice actually!
Script in the link below:
https://sites.google.com/site/mazexx/files/EmailAlarmWithPicsHDv2b.cs?attredirects=0&d=1
mazex
posted this
31 August 2015
And one thing that can be troublesome is to get the ID:s and names of the ptz points stored in the Dictionary "ptzLookup" in the script.
Call the CGI called getPTZPresetPointList directly from a web browser to view your current list (and make sure that your camera likes to talk back with the CGI:s I use!)
Change the ip:port (192.168.1.50:88) to your setup and "usr" (swap "MyUserName" to your user) and "pwd" (change MyPassword to your password) to your configuration below and just paste into a web browser to get the ptz list:
http://192.168.1.50:88/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=getPTZPresetPointList&usr=MyUserName&pwd=MyPassword
mazex
posted this
31 August 2015
My result looks like this:
So I have this in the ptzLookup Dictionary for my preset points:
[code] // So - here we store the association between a specific Z-Wave device id - and the PTZ Preset name that "points" at it (stored with a custom name in the Foscam preset list)
// You NEED to update these with the names of your own preset names that you create in the camera software (Foscam web GUI or some other app)
private void loadPtzPresets()
{
ptzLookup.Add(4, "1-Front");
ptzLookup.Add(12, "2-Baksidan");
ptzLookup.Add(34,"5-Koket");
ptzLookup.Add(35,"3-Tvattstugan");
}[/code]
jalexander319
posted this
04 September 2015
So - I understand that the FI8918W works as it's in a tutorial... But how about the newer high res version FI9821W and FI9831W HD etc? Anyone tried?
Regards /Mans
Are you talking PTZ only? Because I have a FI9804W that I was able to get working with InControl.
