Dahua PTZ1A2M-25X, HTTP Requests, Moves Up and Down but that's it?

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Noober

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Jan 1, 2024
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Trying to control this camera with HTTP Requests. So far I can get up and down to work using this format:

which works and returns <Response [200]>

Similarly down works with:

and returns <Response [200]>

But despite using the Armcrest HTTP API document (and this API doc from Empire Tech which has the same commands), I can't get left, right, zoom, goto_preset to work:

<Response [501]>
** this doesn't change even if I pass a number 1-8 to arg2

<Response [501]>

<Response [501]>

I see there is a camera firmware update, but I don't want to change anything unless I know it will fix the issue. Is there a "protocol" or something I can select in settings that will open up more than Up and Down http requests? If so, I haven't found it in the camera settings. Many thanks for any help.
 
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Okay, discovered my poor coding was the issue.

The reason why some of the commands were not working is because the non-working commands I was feeding it had ".cgi&action=" which should be ".cgi?action=" and now with that changed, my code can pan left and I'm sure all the other API commands will work as well.
 
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Okay, discovered my poor coding was the issue.

The reason why some of the commands were not working is because the non-working commands I was feeding it had ".cgi&action=" which should be ".cgi?action=" and now with that changed, my code can pan left and I'm sure all the other API commands will work as well.
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Gee, I've never done anything like that...
</end sarcasm> :facepalm:
 
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