Cheap China IP Cam - which Apps can I use?

[franc]

Hallo
I bought from China through ebay a very cheap IP-Camera:



I guess this is wellknown here?
On ebay, this is number 331808508834 or 331808508277 or 201530304332 and names maybe "Security Mini Wireless WIFI IP Camera Home Spy Hidden Network Webcam Recorder TB" - there are many this same type.

I have found only one very simple App to control it called "p2pCamViewer" or "Sysm" "Plug&Play" or elsewhise (different names but always the same app always from "Yibo Chen" e-mail: 49761348@qq.com ).
This app is very basic, very buggy and partly just not working. The "developer" never answered any mail about it.
I also have another, a bit better camera from WansView (the NCB-541W), which I handle with "tinyCam Monitor"
This app works good, I can do a lot with it.

But is it possible to use it, or maybe any other good app with this China Cam? Or in the browser?
Anybody knows maybe more about this cam, how it is really named, and which chip is in it?

I found with Wireshark, that the Cam has open Port 5000 and IP 192.168.0.111 but this didnt help.

I hope this is not already asked here and I just didnt find it, or the question about such cams here is not best placed.

Thanks for hints

frank

 

[BuhSnarf]

Does the camera have a web interface or support onvif?

If not you'll be out of luck I'm afraid!

Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk

 

[Vault]

You should definetely check out if this camera has a web interface to control it. What did you use to configure your wireless network?

 

[franc]

No, ther is not a web interface. The setting is through the phone, through this buggy app.
I wouldnt complain too much, if this app would work but only about 10% of the functions are working, the rest is just not working. Apart from that the translation is miserable but this is the smallest problem.
So I can forget it I guess?

 

[alastairstevenson]

No, ther is not a web interface.

Not even on a different port?
If you are using wireshark, maybe you could also try nmap to see what ports are open.
nmap -sS camera_IP_address

 

[franc]

c:\Nmap>nmap -sS 192.168.0.115

Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2016-08-29 13:58 Mitteleuropõische Sommerzeit
Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.115
Host is up (0.37s latency).
All 1000 scanned ports on 192.168.0.115 are closed (629) or filtered (371)
MAC Address: 28:F3:66:2C:62:16 (Unknown)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 13.00 seconds

c:\Nmap>

Nothing.

 

[alastairstevenson]

Nothing.

On the first 1000 common ports.
It might be worth checking all ports - HTTP access on 8080 is not unknown, for example.

 

[franc]

nmap -sS -v -p 1-65535 192.168.0.115
Starting Nmap 7.25BETA1 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2016-08-30 16:30 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.115
Host is up (0.0057s latency).
All 65535 scanned ports on 192.168.0.115 are closed
MAC Address: 28:F3:66:2C:62:16 (Unknown)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 95.59 seconds

Still nothing.

 

[alastairstevenson]

Well - definitely no web interface then!
It sounds like a proprietary arrangement - maybe the camera broadcasts it's existence and the app responds and they talk amongst themselves that way.
If so - quite unusual.

 

[VorlonFrog]

If the camera has a static IP address, you could use Wireshark to scan for any messages from/to that IP address, then turn on the camera. Might show something interesting.