I have a Foscam IP Video camera that will capture video and save it to a folder but only if you are connected to the camera via a web browser.  It will FTP still pictures but I would like it to save the video images to my unraid server but not sure how I can get this to work.

 

anyone have any ideas?

I can't answer your question but I can at least share how I am using my Foscam with unraid.

 

Originally, I had it set to save motion triggered snapshots to an ftp server. But I wasn't happy with the built-in motion detection.

 

So I started using BlueIris as the interface. It works great, but the only disadvantage is, it is windows only. I am running it on the unraid server in Virtualbox on a virtual WinXP client with 512MB ram. It is saving the snapshots on the cache drive and sharing the folder on the network through smb.

Thanks for the reply.  I was looking into that butt need to get my other apps running on unraid to see if I have the horsepower on the machine to add virtualbox into the mix.

Thanks again.

I have a Foscam IP Video camera that will capture video and save it to a folder but only if you are connected to the camera via a web browser.  It will FTP still pictures but I would like it to save the video images to my unraid server but not sure how I can get this to work.

 

anyone have any ideas?

 

I have a Vivotek IP camera that records 24/7 via UDP and throws all the video files on my unraid box. I cycle through 14 days, so it doesn't get too big. The key and most important is the IP camera capture recording software. This is why I chose Vivotek. Their professional recording software they give you for free! It is very configurable. The camera model you have, did it come with software for recording?

There is no recording software.  It will record to a file only if there is an active web browser connection to the camera.  There are other app that will act as the browser but I would need to have another machine running at all time, this is why I was hoping I could do something on unraid.  Loading a virtual windows machine is my only chance but given the resource demand for the vmware app it is not going to happen.

If you can handle installing VLC on your unraid server (might require full slackware setup, unless VLC can be installed in a headless/non-gui mode), you can do something like this:

 

vlc "http://ip-addr:portnr/videostream.asf?user=username&pwd=password" --sout="#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst='/mnt/user/Recordings/myfile.asf'},dst=nodisplay}" --run-time=15 --quiet

 

which will grab (I think) 15 minutes of video and save it locally.  You'll want to incorporate that into a script of some sort.

 

Source / windows .bat example here: http://www.domoticaforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6448

 

I'll be setting up my new foscam to record to my unraid within a couple weeks, so may come up with a script that you'd find useful.  You'll have to handle installing VLC, though

Thanks for the siggestion.  I will look into VLC on my unraid but I dont have the full slackware version and dont really want to convert.  Let me know how your install of the Foscam goes.

Hi,

 

I need the same for my Foscam cameras. Any options have been tried / tested?

There is no recording software.  It will record to a file only if there is an active web browser connection to the camera.  There are other app that will act as the browser but I would need to have another machine running at all time, this is why I was hoping I could do something on unraid.  Loading a virtual windows machine is my only chance but given the resource demand for the vmware app it is not going to happen.

 

What are your unRAID specs?