Tenda and Tapo cameras from remote location

clausbulow
clausbulow
edited November 2023 in Cameras

I have mostly Reolink and Foscams running with SecuritySpy, and I have succesfully installed a camera named Tapo from TP-Link on a remote site using ONVIF and portforwarding. Now I try the same with a camera named Tenda, and I got the cameras user/password information, and it works locally. But with this camera I am not able to establish a remote connection via ONVIF and port forwarding, having tried a lot of combinations. Does anyone have experience with these Tenda cameras, og similar cameras with alternative port number usage?

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  • Ben
    Ben

    ONVIF is tricky to set up remotely, because sometimes the camera operates ONVIF, HTTP, and RTSP over three different no-standard ports, and when connecting remotely the usual mechanisms to discover the port numbers may not work.

    My suggestion would therefore be to set up port forwarding to the camera's RTSP port only (which could be 554 or 8554 - check the camera's settings to determine this). Then, at the client (receiving) location, use a manual setup with the Format set to "RTSP", the Profile set to "Manual Configuration", with the Request set to "rtsp_live0" (without quotes). Does that do it?

    If not, please email us and include a debug file (SecuritySpy menu > Debug > Create Debug File On Desktop) from SecuritySpy when locally connected to this camera, and we'll be able to extract from that the correct port and request.

  • clausbulow
    clausbulow

    Thanks for fast an fine feedback - it actually works! I found somewhere that the request should be profile0, and not rtsp_live0, as a test in VLC worked with this URL: rtsp://admin:admin123456@192.168.0.202:8554/profile0

    The camera now remotely transmit the video with a manuel configuration with profile0 as request and the appropriate ports forwarded. Only thing is, that the camera is a PTZ surveillance camera, and control with PTZ always works for me in your software with ONVIF, but does not work with this manual configuration. Any suggestions to how I maybe could get PTZ to work?

    I did a port scan on the camera, and it came out with some weird port numbers: 843, 1300, 6688, 8554 (rtsp), 8699, 9876.

    Best, Claus

  • clausbulow
    clausbulow

    I looked in the debug file myself, and actually found the ONVIF port number used by the camera, port 6688. Great way to find all the needed information for getting these cheap Chinese cams to fully work with SecureSpy ;-)

    So now I can remotely control and watch this camera, thanks!

    Best, Clays

  • Ben
    Ben

    Great to hear you managed to get this working fully! Yes, sometimes the ONVIF ports are unusual and difficult to determine.

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