hi3507 hisilicone

[spineytoad]

I need to find out if anyone has used the hi3507 ip camera with zoneminder and if so, what settings they used to get it to work, I can't seem to find much in the way of documentation on this camera.
thanks

[knight-of-ni]

I can't directly answer your question. However, what you need to find is the url that causes the camera to stream raw video. If you can get a raw video feed using VLC or a web browser, then it will work in zoneminder.

You do that with a bit of Googleing and experiementation. Here is the first hit when I enter hi3507 into google:
http://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=Hi3507

Make that your starting point. Using VLC or a web browser, build a url using the information from that link.

Note that the holy grail would be a programmer's guide or CGI reference for the camera... Google often takes me to some random Chinese website when I'm looking for this info.

Also look for clues as to what cameras are clones of one another. Here is a reference that indicates your hi3507 is the same internally as an AGASIO A522W which is the same as a WANSVIEW NCH536MW:
http://www.agasio.com/forum/agasio-a522 ... -t128.html

That gives you two more cameras to Google about. The URL you need will likely be the same for all of these cameras.

Once you get the URL, put the appropriate pieces of that URL into the appropraite fields in zoneminder, and it will work.

[knight-of-ni]

Another way to get the url is to look inside the html source of the camera itself. Just login to your camera through your browser, pull up the video feed, and then view the page source. What you are looking for might not be there in plain html, it could be a variable in a Java script.

[spineytoad]

Hi, thanks for the replies, I had finally got it to work using ffmpeg instead of remote rtsp. But every now and then it alarms with an image that goes about half way down then streaks to the bottom, very annoying, anyone have any issues with that or what might be causing it? Perhaps another thread on this?
thanks