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Posted: **Sat May 23, 2009 9:26 pm**

Hi,

I've got a couple of IP-Cams from 'Micon Technologies' which are called IP-250E
http://www.iguard.com/product.shtml

The cams have a really good picture, but the icamview software (despite it only runs under Windows) is not really usable for archiving and searching recordings. Monitoring is quite okay, but that's it.

So I figured out what to do to geht - at least - a picture:

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http://192.168.1.33/login.cgi&login_un=user&login_pw=password&submit=Apply&pda=1
http://192.168.1.33/showimg_pda.cgi?cam=1

Since there is no common http-login, you gotta login by some parameters, not really nice.
But after that you don't directly get a picture, you secondly have to oben another cgi page which generates it for you.

How do I configure such two-step-getting-a-picture in ZM? Shouldn't be too hard, should it?

The cams are also capable of generating a mjpeg stream directly, but I don't have any idea how to get the mjpeg stream directly...

Thank you very much for your help.

Cheers,

Uli-G

Posted: **Sat May 23, 2009 10:03 pm**

put one online as you want to get the MJPEG stream out of it. as for two step auth depends how often you have to authenticate, if just once then just add an auth call on startup, if it requires cookies or something else depends again on how often they expire but its just just a one step thing.

Posted: **Sun May 24, 2009 3:50 am**

forward port 80 of cam to inet and will take a look and then post info login info we might need (change afterwards of course)

Posted: **Sun May 24, 2009 10:56 am**

Hey,

thanks for replying so fast. Since I cannot give you access to one of my cams (they are in a warehouse which is private) I can at least give you the demo access of the manufacturer, which uses 'real' cams, so you can get them to freeze as well;-) The image.cgi is not reachable out of the admin-site, you gotta enter it directly.
Its HCV73 I gotta use.

http://www.megatec.com.tw:83/

There are some other kinds of firmware around for some other cams of the manufacuterer, but partly, they use http-auth for login, which makes it a bit simpler to use

http://www.icamview.com/Demo.htm

The main thing about these cams is, they deliver a really sharp image in 640x480 I didn't expected for a 50 euro IP-Cam.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Edit: While reading along the manufacturers website I got another link which works - at least in the browser - very well, but I get a kind of session cookie...

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http://192.168.0.214/pda.cgi?user=admin&password=1234&page=image&cam=1

But it seems as it doesn't work at all zoneminder...

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May 24 14:50:23 kronz zmu[11180]: WAR [Shared memory not initialised by capture daemon, some query functions may not be available or produce invalid results]
May 24 14:50:26 kronz zmwatch[10657]: ERR [Can't get shared memory id '7a6d0002', 2: No such file or directory].
May 24 14:50:26 kronz zmwatch[10657]: INF [Restarting capture daemon for Cam_Tor_1_-_4, shared memory not valid].
May 24 14:50:27 kronz zmu[11187]: WAR [Shared memory not initialised by capture daemon, some query functions may not be available or produce invalid results]
May 24 14:50:27 kronz zmdc[11190]: INF ['zmc -m 2' started at 09/05/24 14:50:27].
May 24 14:50:27 kronz zmc_m2[11190]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
May 24 14:50:27 kronz zmdc[10619]: INF ['zmc -m 2' starting at 09/05/24 14:50:27, pid = 11190].
May 24 14:50:27 kronz zmwatch[10657]: INF ['zmc -m 2' starting at 09/05/24 14:50:27, pid = 11190].
May 24 14:50:27 kronz zmc_m2[11190]: INF [Starting Capture]
May 24 14:50:28 kronz zmc_m2[11190]: ERR [Invalid response status 400: Bad Request]
May 24 14:50:28 kronz zmc_m2[11190]: ERR [Unable to get response]
May 24 14:50:28 kronz zmc_m2[11190]: ERR [Failed to post-capture monitor 0]
May 24 14:50:28 kronz zmdc[10619]: ERR ['zmc -m 2' exited abnormally, exit status 255].

Sometimes in Zoneminder its a simple black image, sometimes there is no image at all, but there is never a 'real' image.

In Firefox everything is working fine... maybe another 'header-garbage'-problem?

Another thought: I don't get the image with wget either, becuase I get a 505 error "http 1.1 only!"
I checked the appropriate zm config twice, it's already configured to http 1.1...so, I don't know if that has anything to do with my problem.

Cheers,

Uli-G

Posted: **Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:03 pm**

Hi,

Wondering if you eventually got a solution to using Zoneminder with the IP-250E. I have the same camera and have hit the same issues.

Thanks, Gavin.

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:19 pm**

I have the same cam, and wanted to know too, if there is a working solution for this.

Thanks for the update

Posted: **Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:25 pm**

Check out my findings with the IP-270E:

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16118

To get these iGuard cameras to work somewhat reliably, you need to use a proxy app called ICamViewProxy

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