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I've just installed a somewhat older 5MP camera with optical zoom. It looks as if it is a Uniview camera, but it has been rebranded to something else. The stickers say Allnet ALL-CAM2496-LEFN and, of course, I have not docs whatsoever.

The video has a more or less standard rtsp path and by capturing the communication with Wireshark I can now zoom, focus and go home again with curl scripts. Does someone happen to know this API and where there are some docs about it?

PUT LAPI/V1.0/Channel/0/PTZ/PTZCtrl

and the credentials need digest authentication.

Does someone know whether one of the predefined cameras use the same API?

Have a search in the control files.

None of the .pm files come close to this API, but I managed to download the Uniview SDK with some useful information.

I had started on one, but only needed camera reboot so far.

I could start to write some commands for my camera. The only thing to pay attention to would be to use PUT with a json body. It might be useful for a couple of more users.

Two reasons speak against doing this, The first is that I cannot test the functions not provided by my camera. The second is that Uniview falls into the same political category as Hikvision.

On the other hand nothing speaks against such a generic json interface as might be useful for other APIs as well.

Let me know whether you are interested in this small piece of code. Like real programmers I am currently using shell scripts with cURL commands inside to change the camera settings, so it would basically only be a few lines of perl code for me.

I'll commit mine to master. It is a copy of hikvision I think, so most of it is irrelevant. It can be a starting point though.

I'll grab it and see what I can do with it.