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Dear all,

I just bought a new IP cam and I'm trying to use it with ZoneMinder.

It is Micronet SP5511W (http://www.micronet.info/model_detail.a ... cification)

I know, that it streams MJPEG at the following URL:
http://xx.xx.xx.xx/cgi/mjpg/mjpeg.cgi

But first, I have to enter login & password (HTTP authentification).

I tried to configure it the following way in ZoneMinder:
1) Source Type: Remote
2) Remote Host: admin:admin@xx.xx.xx.xx
3) Remote Port: 80
4) Remote Path: /cgi/mjpg/mjpeg.cgi

Does anyone know, what should I try to do?

And I forgot to mention that it does not work - I can see only black picture in ZoneMinder.

Regards,
Onidlo

Just to let you know,

I found out that this webcam does not send valid HTTP headers and valid JPEG.
I had to make some changes in zm_remote_camera.cpp to get it working.

Thats a shame
Do they market their own software?

cordel wrote:Thats a shame
Do they market their own software?

The webcam uses Java applet to play the video. When I looked at the source code of this applet (by using Cavaj Java decompiler), I did not find nothing special - but it was written in a way, that allowed it to skip the first invalid sequence of 28 bytes of JPEG (I think it wasn't programmers aim).

As we found out, the webcam uses same software as described here:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11574

Hello guys and sorry for reviving this old post.

Your forum has been of great help to me so far.

I was given 8 Micronet SP5520 (same as SP5510 with WiFi), to build a small surveilance system, and obviously my choice of software, was ZM.

Unfortunately I'm stuck with the same problem. I've been searching around for a solution, with no luck

It's been a couple of years since this post started. Hasn't anybody find a workaround yet, or some trick for these cameras to properly work with ZM?

Any advices for a newbie pls?

Thanks

Any luck with those Micronet SP5520 ?

onidlo wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2008 9:34 am

cordel wrote:Thats a shame
Do they market their own software?

The webcam uses Java applet to play the video. When I looked at the source code of this applet (by using Cavaj Java decompiler), I did not find nothing special - but it was written in a way, that allowed it to skip the first invalid sequence of 28 bytes of JPEG (I think it wasn't programmers aim).

You may also use online Java decompiler. It is more recent than Cavaj and does not require installation.