Check IPC status via HTTP through NVR

[MegabyteMike]

Hello,

I have a customer portal webpage built in PHP / HTML which lists customers IP cameras in a table.
I want to add icon to each table simply showing a green or red dot for the online / offline status of IPC.

I can do this with a bushfix of using the cam IP address and FTP feature to upload low res snapshot to a webserver at given intervals and my webcode checks for an updated file. Then returns a YES / NO if image has updated since the last one ..
This works to some extent.
Also the ISAPI streaming RTSP method can achieve this quite easily.

The problem I have is;
we setup all our CCTV systems on private networks. We use 9600 series NVRs with 2 LAN cards.
All IPCs and switches are on 1 local network (LAN1) with local IPs.
The internet / outside world is then via LAN 2.
So I can only remotely access the NVR via fixed IP. I cannot access IPCs remotely.

How can I achieve my webpage intergration?
What method can I use to retrieve online status of IPCs using the NVR IP remotely?
Is it even possible?
Ive heard of hiks 'heartbeat' function .. ive heard that there are planned NVR firmwares with FTP feature also (mainly for ANPR atm)

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks

 

[SamM]

Hi there

have you tried:

rtsp:/username:userpassword@<address>:<port>/Streaming/Channels/<id>
where <address> - DDNS or IP for the system
<port> - RTSP port (typically 554)
<id> - streaming channel - for example “101” or "102"