Amcrest
Any future support for Amcrest? At one of our facilities we use a PC with Blue Iris, which supports our Amcrest system. Our main facility we use SecuritySpy. Did not see Amcrest in the list for Cameras.
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Any luck?
- In the Video Device Settings window in SecuritySpy create a new device
- Set the device type to Manual
- Enter the DVR's IP address, username and password
- Select RTSP as the Format
- Enter cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0 as the Request
To add the additional channels, repeat the above steps, and change the channel setting in the request to 2, 3 and 4 respecctively.
"01-08-2016 1510-29: Error communicating with the network device "Network camera" 3.4.8,80210,404 File not found"
The DVR uses Media Port 9000, HTTP Port 8888, and RTSP Port 554. I have set SS with those HTTP/RTSP ports.
Thanks,
Steve
The 404 message means that the DVR didn't understand the request string. Are you sure that you are setting the "Format" setting to RTSP, in the Video Device Settings window in SecuritySpy, and not HTTP?
You could try this request string: cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1 (the subtype value is different). This is a request string directly from Amcrest's own web site.
Try also the "RTSP-over-HTTP" Format option in the Video Device Settings window, with an HTTP port value of both 80 and 8888.
If none of these work, then you might be out of luck I'm afraid. The only thing left would be to contact Amcrest directly and ask if your device can send an RTSP stream to third-party applications such as SecuritySpy, and ask exactly what the RTSP string is for your device.
Usually, multi-input devices use different request strings over the same RTSP port for the different inputs, but we have also seen devices that use different ports for each input instead with no request string, so check the device's settings and manual for any indication that this might be the case, and if so what these additional RTSP ports numbers are. Otherwise, it might be a case of asking Amcrest for the correct request strings.
I'm hoping that the Amcrest can be a good replacement for Foscam and which has well-written firmware at a lower price than the Axis, which has been my go-to brand for many years. From what I saw in the booth, I like Amcrest's product line up and they seem to "get it".
However, as I note in another thread (http://www.bensoftware.com/forum/discussion/1457/netcat-camera-experiences-ptz#Item_4) the ONVIF commands sent by SecuritySpy for "stop moving" don't seem to be recognized. I tried setting to Dahua, but no luck - authentication problems.
Ben, I can put one of these somewhere where you can take a swing at it.
- Set the device type to Manual
- Enter the NVR's IP address, username and password
- Select RTSP as the Format
- For the Request, use h264Preview_01_main for the first channel, h264Preview_02_main for the second channel etc.
Does this work?
Thanks, Steve
SecuritySpy currently doesn't have a feature for controlling the IR light in the C1, though it should be easy to implement (we put these kinds of things in the contextual menu you get when right-clicking on a particular camera feed). However there is no facility in Remote Patrol or Spyglass to access such a setting at this time unfortunately, so it would be up to the developers of these apps to implement it.
Steve
06-17-2016 1444-32: Error sending PTZ command for camera "xyz" 3.4.10,4410,32 Broken pipe (EPIPE)
One question I still have though now that PTZ works for Amcrests on the desktop SS (version 4.2.6), is that capability built in somewhere into the Security Spy app? That's where PTZ would really come in handy....