Gadspot GS1600H

[sick347]

many thanks Flash!

frank

[m1]

Hi,
bought two of them (see subject)... they work only with their activex control, gadspot techsupport confirmed.

Bought a few of GS4000. Internal motion detection&ftp to server works fine.

However, you have to convert (via camera interface, no separate program) .av files to jpeg.

I have also found that you can get camera stream if you wget /test.cmp from camera. I still have no idea how to display so recorded stream.

[ynn]

I have these camera too, and I want to ask you question, does your camera produce bright glare at night because of the Infrared, what I mean is that when there is person in the camera, I cannot recognize the person's face because I think is that the Infrared light is too bright for the person's face, so it kind of reflects back.

do you have this problem too?

[m1]

No, I don't use it at such a close range. I need an auxiliary IR lamp.

[Flash_]

ynn, ahh - so it isn't just me.

I don't know why - the sealing collar is tight around the lens, but I do get the glare and am considering an external IR source.

[tipok]

Can anybody try to demux the stream of this camera?

All what i know is that camera create mpeg4video and PCM (uncompressed) audio and send it thru http.

ActiveX player "User-Agent: IMMP4C~1"
got this file /test.cmp - this is muxed audio&video, but what is this muxer?
I'm using mplayer and VLC, but none of them can understand this type of file.
Here is example of captured file: test.cmp.zip
(strucutre of this file - like saved capture files and there is simple difference between .avi and .av).

[m1]

You can try to convert it using IMMP4Control.ocx. With a newer version it is possible to save stream in IE directly to AVI - according to manual http://szjsa.cn/UserFiles/File/IM_PG_MP ... 8.4.17.pdf

Unfortunately I was unable to get a newer version of IMMP4Control.ocx

[tipok]

But this is only for windows users.
We need they multiplexer api. (i found that this is modified .avi)
If we can convert stream of this cam on-the-fly than we can create zoneminder compatible stream.
This is IMMP4Control.ocx came with my camera

[screwloose]

Hi guys i have found a new ver of the OCX. I have been writing a interface through Visual Basic to interact with the camera. I have the code viewing the camera and saving file's. I also have it converting the files to AVI. I would really like to the the motion detection going if anyone could help me with this.

this is a link to the new OCX i found
ver 1.18.4.21 i think
http://szjsa.cn/UserFiles/File/1ocx.rar
also can people post there ver of firmware in the camera and wether they use PAL or NTSC?

thank you

[bruncili]

Hi all,

I would like to buy and use the GS1600H as a live webcam in my website without audio. Do you think it is a good choice? Visitors of my website will need to download an activeX? And if they use firefox?

And what about the refresh? I mean, is the image automatically refreshed every x seconds even if the guest doesn't refresh the web page?

Thank you!

Bruno.

[Flash_]

I think, on balance, if you were looking to do a "movie" type webcam (where it's a true stream rather than just a jpg that changes every minute or two) then this probably isn't the best camera to use. It will work with firefox without any activex, but if they visit with IE they will be asked to install the activeX wrapper which, by the way, gives them access to the pan/tilt controls.

If you specifically wanted them to have pan/tilt then yes, it's probably a good deal, although I have no other experience with p/t cams.

If you were doing a busy website with lots of visitors (ie, more than 3 or 5) then a direct feed isn't going to be possible and you'd need to grab a jpg every few seconds and display that on your server instead. (Which actually works okay and doesn't overload the camera).
The Axis will only support 20-odd simultaneous feeds also, so if you do go that route then this is as good as that.

[bruncili]

Hi Flash,

thank you for the quick answer. What I would like to have in my website is something like a jpeg image that change every few seconds. Here is a sample:

http://82.91.106.8/wg_applet.ml

The Gadspot GS1600H is something similar?
If the Internet explorer user doesn't accept to install the activeX, what does he see? Nothing? Or maybe he sees a simple interface, like the firefox one?

Thank you again.

Bruno.

[Flash_]

Heya

I would say your best bet for that is to run a cron job on your public webserver to wget a single jpg from the camera (most good IP cameras support a single jpg fetch, Axis and Gadspot definately do)

A little bit of javascript to force a reload every x seconds on the html website displaying this image should do what you want, without hammering your home connection too much.

Alternatively, do the above but link direct to the jpg on the camera (less secure as your passwords, if used, will be on display)

Both will work in all gui browsers (provided basic javascript is enabled) and require no activex or other plugin.

of course, neither of the above will allow the viewer to move the camera, unless they are smart enough with the second one to ascend the camera's path and get the full set.

The folllowing is a bit of code that I use to do as you do, but on a 2-minute refresh for two cameras. Just change the interval to a lower number of milliseconds to make it faster.

Code: Select all

<img src="http://path-to-camera.jpg" alt="Cam1" name="image1"> <br>
Camera 1 description

<img src="http://path-to-camera2.jpg" alt="Cam2" name="image2"> <br>
Camera 2 description

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

<!--
interval = 120000;
imgsrc = "http://path-to-camera.jpg";
imgsrc2 = "http://path-to-camera2.jpg";

function Refresh() {
   tmp = new Date();
   tmp = "?" + tmp.getTime();
   document.images["image1"].src = imgsrc + tmp;
   document.images["image2"].src = imgsrc2 + tmp;
   setTimeout("Refresh()", interval);
}

Refresh();
// -->
</script><i>Pictures should update every two minutes</I>

[samiam75]

Does anyone know out to fetch a .jpg image directly out of the 4600 camera? I assume it's something like: http://*cameraip*/image.jpg, but I'm not sure what the exact path or filename should be. http://*cameraip*/test.cmp seems to work to capture the video/audio stream, so I assume that there is a similar way to capture a still pic.

Alternatively, has anyone figured out a way convert their .AV formats to .AVI offline, or to get their FTP client to send .JPG instead .AV files?

Thx!!

[bruncili]

Hi samiam,

I asked your question to the Gadspot chat support, they said that it's not possible with the GS4600. I have the same problem, I think I'll change my camera with the GS1600H.