I’ve been toying around with those cheap LinkSys cameras, which are great… but they have bad low light and no IR light sensitivity. So, I got some ACTi ACM1311N IP cameras, which have great IR sensitivity. However, unlike other IP cameras, the video stream from this camera is essentially proprietary. This is changing though… after harassing the support techs, it turns out there is a way to pull/embed still images from the camera. Just in case anyone else is interested, here is the URL used to pull snapshots from the camera with;
http://x.x.x.x/cgi-bin/encoder?USER=Admin&PWD=123456&SNAPSHOT
At the time of this writing, they are working on a firmware update to support video streaming via URL pull, but it’s not expected to be released until late 2009. Boring post I know, but I also blog things like this as a memory aid for myself 😉
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