Foscam FI9853EP support?
Hi,
Is the new Foscam FI9853EP mini dome HD camera support bij SecuritySpy?
The camera has H264 compression and ONVIF support.
Thanks,
Peter
Is the new Foscam FI9853EP mini dome HD camera support bij SecuritySpy?
The camera has H264 compression and ONVIF support.
Thanks,
Peter
Comments
It may work in SecuritySpy using the ONVIF settings, but our recent experience of Foscam H.264 cameras has been unsatisfactory, and we've had many users report problems with them. So until these problems are resolved we aren't going to officially support any new Foscam H.264 cameras. I would advise choosing a camera that is on our official list of compatible cameras.
We haven't specifically tested the FI9853EP, and being new there is a chance that it has some updated firmware that Foscam have been working on. If you decide to go for this camera, please report back and let us know your experiences. But make sure you buy from somewhere to which you can easily return it, if you have trouble.
Could you elaborate on the issues you're referring to with the Foscam H.264? I have 5 of them, and they work pretty well for their price.
However the firmware has been steadily increasing and I would expect it to be much better now. What settings in SecuritySpy are you using for your Foscam cameras, and exactly what model(s) are they? Have you experienced any problems with them, or are they working completely reliably?
We will also do some testing ourselves and if we find out they now work reliably then we will be able to officially support them again. This would be great as they are very popular and affordable cameras.
Foscam FI9803P
-Device Type: FI9802W, FI9821W
-Format: H.264 RTSP
-No recompression
Foscam FI9804W
-Device Type: Manual configuration
-RTSP Port: 80
-Request: /videoMain
-No recompression
Foscam FI8905W
-Device Type: Foscam JPEG
-No recompression
-Format: JPEG http
Note that all of the cameras have been set (in their firmware) to 15fps for frame rate, and 30fps for key frame rate.
I should also mention that the cameras have been great, and haven't stopped responding. The FI8905W and the FI9804W have been running non-stop for over 6 months without any issues or reboots.
While these settings seem to be just fine, I've noticed in the last two days that SS has stopped responding at about every 12 hours or so. Unfortunately I didn't realize it until I crossed my front door and didn't get the motion triggered email.
Is there anything I need to do outside of "no recompression" and not changing any video properties, not adding a text overlay in SS, to make sure I'm saving directly to disk without any type of processing? As I mentioned in the other thread I'm trying to conserve as much CPU as possible.
As long as you have checked the "No recompression" option, and you haven't set SecuritySpy to alter the video stream in any way, you will be getting direct-to-disk recording. If SecuritySpy is missing some motion events, you could try increasing the motion detection sensitivity, and/or reducing the trigger time setting, so that it is more sensitive to motion.
I'm happy to see that someone has the 9803 working with SS ... I haven't had any luck with that yet. I have the 9803EP and have tried just about every combination of settings. I've noticed that you use RTSP. How do you enable that with your SS camera setup?
Screen is blue.
No problems with login with Firefox.
Any clue?
Device Type: Foscam F1982W
H.264 RTSP (video and audio)
Checked No Compression
The only settings that worked were
Device Type: ONVIF
Address: the IP of the cam
ONVIF Port: (the default 888)
the username & password I set
Format: RTSP UDP (video and audio)
Input number: 1
Quality: Default
Frame rate: Default
No recompression of data from this device (checked)
no other settings or combinations of settings trying to use the Foscam defaults including the Foscam H.264 profile worked (I spent at least an hour trying pretty much every combination of settings before reading something about there being ONVIF in the camera settings, so tried that option in Security Spy)
Security Spy version 3.4.7
Profile: Foscam H.264
HTTP port: (set it to what I have the camera set for)
RTSP port: (default)
Format: H.264 RTSP (video and audio)
which has improved its reliability - with UDP it was dropping sometimes - at least while I've been watching it since changing to the Foscam H.264 profile it hasn't dropped at all.
The Camera is also running slightly newer firmware now 1.5.3.15 with UI 2.22.2.18
but I'm pretty sure it was a fix in SS 4.x that has it working over HTTP now instead of ONVIF (UDP)