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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    What resolution is used on "snap"? Is it 720p or the lowres stream?
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    In my opinion the best way is to buy a raspberry with camera and a dummy housing to build the raspberry in. @Don: is there any chance to get the Firmware SDK or modification kit to build own firmwares?
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    I've used TCP, better "motion" compiled with ffmpeg and RTSP support does it by default. Maybe the Raspi1 CPU is simply to bad for such grabbing stuff. But I'm not willing to use an i7 near to the cam to let it do a job which can be done by the cam nativly - generate snapshots. Other cams have...
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    I tried a lot including grabbing images from RTSP with motion on a raspi - no way. The stream isn't MJPEG. With motion the raspi CPU goes up t0 permanent 99% and the grabbed images are crap. Only chance to get regular snapshots for website purposes is to fire the alert input with an Arduino and...
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    The camera chip delivers 720p native. All other resolutions have to be scaled down. This is done to save bandwidth on network. It shouldn't be a problem to take the snapshot from native stream.
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    Okay, I thought this by me before. So it makes no different how long the alarm input is closed to GND That's bad. I'll check that feature before I buy the next camera Do you have asked about the image format on FTP snapshoots while Alarm input? It may be that the format is okay for video...
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    You where warned more than one time in this thread that an upgrade kills the WLAN functionality. I believe that the manufacturer has changed the WLAN Hardware and deliver other drivers within newer firmwares
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    Yes, you are right. I have tested it with 100ms instead of 500ms - no different. Writing the Python script was the faster solution for me finally bcause: 1) it fixes the wrong ratio (image format) 2) it grabs the images from this deep folder tree which is not usable for website usage 3) it...
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    I made a python script which grabs all the images from deep file structure on FTP upload into a flat folder and link the newest one . It resizes the images to whatever you want (e.g. restore the 16:9 ratio) and removes the useless doubles in upload folder Edit: fixed some bugs in the...
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    The Second value is 5 minutes, not 5 seconds. I want to take an image every 5 minutes.
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    The new Firmware doesn't change the behaviour that per alert 2 images get uploaded to FTP. Could it be that images are made as long the alert is fired? The Arduino short signal to GND for 500ms and opens then for 5 minutes. Could it be that 500ms are to long and 2 images are made while this...
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    I get an "upgrade fail" if I try to flash over the IE page Edit: the second try with the same file shows "successful"
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    See attached screens for my setup. The firmware seems to be older than yours but I'm unsure which I have to flash on my model Edit: I download the Firmware right now. Let's see wether I get a brick ;)
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    I have changed the Delay to 45 but it doesn't change the behavior. Attached you see one alert at 18:48 and the both resulting images. Look at the Timestamp of both images - exactly the same second (right top corner) Edit: The forum software doesn't allow me to upload the second image. Maybe...
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    Review - TOP-201 Super Mini 720P HD IP-Cam (The Cheapest IP Cam So Far !!)

    Well, the Alert is working well. Some questions: 1) For each alert I get 2! Images in my FTP upload folder. How I can reduce that to only one? 2) the Snapshot images are in 4:3 format, compressed in width. Where I can configure the Snapshot image format? It should be unchanged in 1280x720 as...
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