Need help hooking up my pi3 cameras to BI!

fundean

fundean

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Jun 23, 2016
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Have BI up and running with a logitech camera...
Have two Raspberry PI3 Cameras running Motioneye on my network...
I can access them via ip address but can't seem to add them to BI...
Any chance someone has successfully added?
there isn't a Model selection for them...

HELP PLEASE!!
 
Hey Fenderman! I have downloaded the program and tried to find the cams... no avail
the username and pass are for the camera right? and I have tried to put several ip addresses in
frustrating since I can just go into a browser and see both the cameras...
ps thank you for helping
 
fundean said:
Hey Fenderman! I have downloaded the program and tried to find the cams... no avail
the username and pass are for the camera right? and I have tried to put several ip addresses in
frustrating since I can just go into a browser and see both the cameras...
ps thank you for helping
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have you tried all the suggestions in the link? Do you know the RTSP URL for the camera? Yes you must enter the username and pass for the camera in BI
 
Sorry for the delay! And again thanks for trying to help...
I have tried to use the one program to find the rtsp but can't find it...
Also downloaded the ip cam viewer you suggested and it finds the cameras no problem... not sure how to see the stream through the app...
Ill try again tonight to search w blue Iris but it locks up when I try...
 
fundean said:
Sorry for the delay! And again thanks for trying to help...
I have tried to use the one program to find the rtsp but can't find it...
Also downloaded the ip cam viewer you suggested and it finds the cameras no problem... not sure how to see the stream through the app...
Ill try again tonight to search w blue Iris but it locks up when I try...
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email support
 
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A few years ago I had my RPi B camera working with BI. The settings I used then were:

type RTSP
IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
RTSP port 554
video path /h264 ****this was the piece that finally worked for me at that time
 
That is cool, do you remember what software you used to get the Pi to provide an RTSP stream? MJpeg is terribly inefficient and should be avoided when h264 is readily available!
 
bp2008 said:
That is cool, do you remember what software you used to get the Pi to provide an RTSP stream? MJpeg is terribly inefficient and should be avoided when h264 is readily available!
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Sorry, I do not but I just found an image from that time period (2013) and will see if I can get it to work.
 
Hey Guys
tried all those suggestions... nothing yet
thank you all for the help so far
I have a conversation going with support so I will post the solutions...
stink because I even downloaded IPcamviewer app and runs no problem...
not sure why I can't get BI to find the cams
 
fundean said:
Hey Guys
tried all those suggestions... nothing yet
thank you all for the help so far
I have a conversation going with support so I will post the solutions...
stink because I even downloaded IPcamviewer app and runs no problem...
not sure why I can't get BI to find the cams
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the fact that its in the ipcamviewer database means someone at some point provided access to that camera or similar to the developer...no one as done it for blue iris...
 
I found some notes on how I got it going in the past (with Ken's help).

RPi with raspian-wheezy image
Recipe to install Live555 server - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=52071

In BI, add camera with these settings:

type RTSP (not tunneling over HTTP)
IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
RTSP port 8554
video path /h264

I got this to work this morning in BI but has lots of latency and I do not remember that being a problem 3 years ago. I also tried to fresh install on Jessie and could not get the Live555 server to run.
 
Well finally got one of the cameras showing up
http 192....:8081
media/rtsp port 554
discovery port 8999

generic
model MJPEG stream

camera 1

not sure why it showed caused it took a while...
I checked the other camera and it has the exact same settings except from what I see, it's :8080
no idea if the Media/video/RTSP port would be different than 554?!
and whether the Discovery/ONVIF port would also be different than 8999?!

also had a reply but no info from the company to report yet...
 
Well I spoke too soon...
both cameras are now working...
'thank you to all! Especially fenderman and yeme and bp2008!
super stoked...
a side note, running three cameras
720 and two at 8mp... the i5 (older) is clocking around 3%...
both 8mp are running at 20fpm and I matched the bi settings

hope this helps someone else
the cameras cost 70$ for everything and they are night capable...
 
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