Control Foscam Webcam

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Hey,

i have a webcam from foscam and want to rotate the camera with pimatic. I have tested the foscam-plugin but it doesn’t work (no picture and no movement). Is anyone using a foscam webcam and can control the movement of the camera too? With th ipcamera-plugin i get images from the camera but also no movement. Also i want to use a live video mode. Any ideas?

Regards daice

@daice said in Control Foscam Webcam:

Any ideas?

The plugin is currently not supported with pimatic 0.9. As a work-around you possibly can use the shell-execute plugin and write suitable shell scripts to at least control the camera

https://github.com/marcokeur/pimatic-foscam/issues/5

I control my foscam with rules, I move it to a preset position and switch on/off the IR LED
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Foscam

Example:

execute "curl -s 'http://192.168.x.x:80/decoder_control.cgi?command=35&user=USER&pwd=PASSWORD'" 
and execute "curl -s 'http://192.168.x.x:80/decoder_control.cgi?command=95&user=USER&pwd=PASSWORD'"

command=35 = Go preset 2
command=95 = IR on
command=94 = IR off

Thats what i was looking for! Thanks.

@incmve said in Control Foscam Webcam:

I control my foscam with rules

I had the ShellSwitch in mind to control things like IR on/off. That’s why I suggested the use of the shell-execute plugin.

@daice said in Control Foscam Webcam:

i have a webcam from foscam and want to rotate the camera with pimatic. … With th ipcamera-plugin i get images from the camera but also no movement. Also i want to use a live video mode. Any ideas?

the ip-camera plugin is able to control your movements.
have a look at the code

{
  "id" : "ipcamera",
  "class": "IpCameraDevice",
  "name": "IP Camera",
  "filename": "snapshot.jpg",
  "cameraUrl": "[URL from your camera]",
  "username": "[optional username]",
  "password": "[optional password]",
  "width": 340,
  "height": 240,
  "leftURL": "",
  "rightURL": "",
  "upURL": "",
  "downURL": ""
},

it cannot be setup via gui curiously. maybe someone can have a look why this does not take place?!
but a live video is not possible (yet)

@leader21 said in Control Foscam Webcam:

maybe someone can have a look why this does not take place?!

Fixed. I’ve filed a PR with several changes for pimatic 0.9 readyness.
https://github.com/funky81/pimatic-ipcamera/pull/23