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IP camera

Ironside — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:36:00 GMT

Hi, I wasn't sure where to ask this question.

I've got a bird box IP camera. A company called cam secure are going to host it for me. However, they require some information first.

"What we need is the public IP address or the DNS name e.g. if you set up a DNS name then we can use that instead of the public IP if public IP is dynamic.

If you can forward either the public IP if it is fixed or the DNS name if you have then we will try again."

I have already forwarded the ports 8899, which correspond with the camera. I am with no IP so can create a DDNS.

However, I'm not sure how I marry up the DDNS address with my account.

Re: IP camera

Keith_Beddoe — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:38:34 GMT

@Ironside

Who provides your broadband connection?

Re: IP camera

Ironside — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:42:07 GMT

I'm with BT broadband

Re: IP camera

Keith_Beddoe — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:06:51 GMT

@Ironside wrote:

I'm with BT broadband

Which BT home hub are you using?

Assuming you are a residential user, then you will have a dynamic public IP address, and will need to use a DDNS service which is supported by the home hub you are using.

Re: IP camera

licquorice — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:13:18 GMT

If using a Smart Hub2, go to Advanced settings > Broadband > Dynamic DNS If you enable the service, a drop down list of supported providers is shown if you click in the 'service' box.

Re: IP camera

Ironside — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:19:49 GMT

I subscribe to. No IP and I actually run a software defined radio which is accessible online. In theory, the bird box camera shouldn't be any different in the way it t up. I just can't work out where I'm going wrong.

http://g0vqy-kiwisdr.ddns.net:8073/

Re: IP camera

licquorice — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:29:48 GMT

I'm not familiar with DDNS services, but wonder if they allow multiple services on one account.

Re: IP camera

licquorice — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:30:51 GMT

Try a different provider for the camera, using a free trial to see if that works ok.

Re: IP camera

Keith_Beddoe — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:45:28 GMT

@Ironside wrote:

I subscribe to. No IP and I actually run a software defined radio which is accessible online. In theory, the bird box camera shouldn't be any different in the way it t up. I just can't work out where I'm going wrong.

http://g0vqy-kiwisdr.ddns.net:8073/

I can see the SDR. Pity about the QRM.

You can create multiple hosts on the "paid for" No IP service, but I think the home hub only supports one hostname.

That is not a problem because you can setup your camera on a different port, and the use the redirect option on No-IP, to point your extra host, to your existing SDR host, with the suffix port number at the end.

See https://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/what-is-a-web-or-url-redirect/

Example assume camera is on port 81

New hostname

http://mycam.ddns.net redirect to http://g0vqy-kiwisdr.ddns.net:81

Remember to open incoming port 81 on the home hub and point it to the camera LAN address.

PS. I like your SDR 😀

Re: IP camera

Les-Gibson — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:39:54 GMT

If it's a free account which you have to renew every 30 days then you can't have multiple paths on one account.

If it's one you pay for your DDNS provider will tell you how many paths you can have for your plan. You just need to add the port number to the device address and set the device and port forwarding accordingly. For example http://( public IP address:port number)

Re: IP camera

Ironside — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:01:51 GMT

I'm wondering if I haven't got things configured properly in my router

Re: IP camera

licquorice — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:29:53 GMT

All looks ok, although personally I would give the camera a static IP address outside of the DHCP range of the hub on the device itself rather than use the Hub's address reservation facility and use the IP address to forward to rather than device name. It keeps the hub's involvement in proceedings to a minimum.

Re: IP camera

Keith_Beddoe — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:35:10 GMT

I can see the camera script at

http://g0vqy-kiwisdr.ddns.net:8899/

<SOAP-ENV:Body>

<SOAP-ENV:Fault>

<faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Client</faultcode>

<faultstring>HTTP GET method not implemented</faultstring>

</SOAP-ENV:Fault>

</SOAP-ENV:Body>

</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

So port forwarding is working. You would have to look at it externally, as the HH does not support NAT loopback.

You just need to set up a redirect from your chosen host.

Re: IP camera

Ironside — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:35:25 GMT

Okay, it looks as though I have got the ddns set correctly now. I had to download DUC.

Re: IP camera

Les-Gibson — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:40:35 GMT

On the first screen shot:

The camera name does not need to be the IP address, it can be anything you want it to be. So for example, it could be something meaningful like BirdCamera but certain characters (usually symbols and spaces) may not be permitted.

From a browser, the URL only needs to be the dynamic IPaddress:Port number, the rest is unnecessary and may be what's causing the problem.

The URL you are using could be the extra bits that have to be entered into a media player when viewing the camera stream locally in order to identify the stream you want to watch. For example some HD cameras use two or more streams, the question then is how do you tell the media player which stream you want to view? a common method is to type http://{local ip address:port number/videoMain or videoSub) note the deliberate use of uppercase M and S, it is case sensitive.

With reference to the second screenshot:
It's not critical but I would use a static IP address (below 192.168.1.64) rather than a reserved DHCP pool address.

The Third Screenshot.
Not much wrong there but I would suggest you change the protocol to TCP/UDP.

The final thing to check is that your hub is set to use DDNS, that your account login and password are stored and that the public IP address visible in your DDNS account is the same as your current public IP (in other words make sure the hub is updating your DDNS service)

Re: IP camera

Ironside — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:37:23 GMT

So far so good. I'm a little bit disappointed with myself because I've done this all before.

Re: IP camera

Ironside — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:40:43 GMT

That's my software defined radio station.

I hope to have a live streaming bird box camera at Brixham-blue-**bleep**.ddns.net.

Mind you, I really want to embed the video on www.brixhambluetits.co.uk

Re: IP camera

Keith_Beddoe — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:45:55 GMT

@Ironside wrote:

That's my software defined radio station.

I hope to have a live streaming bird box camera at Brixham-blue-**bleep**.ddns.net.

Mind you, I really want to embed the video on www.brixhambluetits.co.uk

I used the port that you had forwarded for your camera, so it should not have been the SDR.

Re: IP camera

Les-Gibson — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:47:18 GMT

Not knowing your technical ability, that could be easy or more trouble than it's worth, you might find the following a useful resource. https://www.w3schools.com/html/

Re: IP camera

Ironside — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:49:17 GMT

The company who are hosting the camera will give me some HTML code which I embed onto a page. This will then allow me to display the camera on a website.