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Help - Who Makes This No Name Camera?
Well this one's a treat... we got invited to check out and possibly quote for upgrading a dozen cameras in a condo tower, as a couple were failing and they were really unhappy with the current system. We figured, let's go in, give it a look, bring down a Vigil NVR, hook it into their network, and see if we can get their cameras working on it. Well, I've managed to get Vigil to work with a number of "unsupported" cameras using either ONVIF, or its generic RTSP and HTTP support... when the camera's full URL/MRL to pull a stream is known.
Unforunately these cameras give NO indication of who made them or what kind they are other than probably some cheap offshore OEM thing... the software is logo'd as mEyeNET but appears to be some sort of free NVR that was likely bundled with the cameras (the machine actually has Exacq installed as well, but it's not being used). The cameras are actually decent image quality, but the software is absolutely horrid.
Ultimately, we'll probably quote to replace the cameras as well as the NVR, but since there's not really anything wrong with the cameras, we'd like to save the potential client a bit of cash by re-using whichever ones we can. To do so, though, I'll need to find out the URL/MRL for them (eg. rtsp://192.168.0.xxx/something/stream.asp or whatever), and for that, I'll probably need to figure out who makes the damn things.
I have a couple screenshots of the CMS here:
And here's one of the camera's login screen - kinda reminds me of an ACTi, but the ACTi finder utility didn't work, nor did the ACTi settings in Vigil:
(I do have some screencaps of the cameras' interface as well, coming shortly...)
Anyone has any idea what brand these things are???
Can you send me a MAC address of one of the cameras?
May be try to decompile and analyse ActiveX
DropBox link for ActiveX ?
Is this the VMS from Beward?
Got some screenshots of a camera's config screens:
If the main goal is to get the RSTP/MJPEG uris, then one way to get hold of them would be to install Wireshark on your laptop, then connect the laptop to their network. Open a browser to one of the cameras, switch to a settings page or something without video. Then start network capturing in Wireshark, switch to the browser and press the Live view link, then stop network capture in wireshark. If you then go through what was captured in Wireshark (filter on the cameras IP), you should see what uris etc is called for setting up the video stream in the browser.
It might take some practise to get used to how to find the right information, but it's easily the fastest way to find this and other information related to communicating with a camera when you don't have proper documentation.
Its a long shot but try this:
rtsp://IPADDRESS:554/user=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD&channel=1&stream=1.sdp?
Obviously you will want to change the capital letters in this string to fit your scenario.
I found this manual by using Google. It could be your software. If you have Exacq, I would use that. Can you provide a photo of the camera?
If the cameras are ONVIF then you can try using ONVIF Device Manager from Synesis to connect to the camera it should have the camera manufacturer in the identification tab as well as the url stream. This is free software.
So ONVIF Device Manager found nothing, didn't see the cameras at all... didn't see them when I added their IPs manually, either. Tried Wireshark on the machine but couldn't see anything relevant immediately, although I did capture a couple minutes' worth of data and downloaded it to home - just installing Wireshark on my desktop now to give it a closer look. I did notice there were a *LOT* of "Malformed packets" though.

Even if it appears to work initially, will it always work? Will it be reliable?

Matt, I've worked in IT for pert near 16 years. Be careful of "never" and "if it works it should always work". Bad processing of packets, bad firmeware code, buffer overruns, sliding windows that get stuck (tech joke).... Not trying to be a harbinger.
Please see if the camera is from ZAVIO as the design seems similar.
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