IP camera image quality question

Would there be anyone who would be interested in a TeamViewer session with me on this? Maybe I need a new pair of eyes to look at it. Please contact me via pm. Thanks.

Hi Dan, just sent you an email.

Hallelujah!!!

Gentlemen, it’s working again. The issue is that I was entering a port number in the webcamcapture app, when it didn’t really need it. I found this out quite by accident by trying different connection URLs as shown on the Amcrest website and when I entered one but didn’t put the port number in, the image showed up! This is quite perplexing because I always had the port number in there before. But, if it works like this, then I’m going to leave the port number out of the URL. I’ve been watching the page now for about 5-6 minutes, and so far it hasn’t timed-out and is keeping pretty good time.

lgRich, I took your advice and tried to set my cam settings to the ones you suggested and after I click the “Save” button to save the changes, it changes back to MJPG, 720P, 10 FPS all by itself and I’m not sure why, but like I said, if it works with these settings then I’m going to leave it alone for awhile to see what it does.

Thanks to everyone who helped me with my settings and helping me to get this back up and running. It’s been an experience, I can tell you! Now I can go to bed happy. :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Dan

I can’t see it but that’s because the webpage is trying to show your local IP http://192.168.1.102/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?camera=1

Hmm. Works internally but not externally. I tried my IP address, my domain name, and the DNS entry I created yesterday for my webcam and it still won’t show.

Well, back to the drawing board, as they say. :frowning:

Gents, I’ve given up on this for now. It’s too frustrating to try to get a live image going again. Works locally but not externally. I’m on vacation next week so may spend more time with it then. In the interim, I’ve gone back to 1 image and the daily video.

Thanks for all your help.

Dan

Lots of moving parts in getting the outside world access to your internal net. What problem are you having? I do use teamviewer.

Live camera is working now. Would someone care to try it?

Mozilla just updated Firefox just updated to a new version and it seems to be working in Firefox now as well as Chrome.

Dan

Not going to work…

http://192.168.1.102/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?camera=1

You need a real IP for anybody to reach your cam…

Hi Dan… when I put an external IP address there, the page never loads. I’ve opened the port on the firewall, but still I get nothing. Any ideas on how to fix that?

Do you know for sure that the port you are trying to use is opened by your ISP?

Try testing with Shields Up https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

Yes, it’s open, according to Open Port Check Tool.


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Also open according to Shields Up!


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In your browser, for the URL enter “whatsmyip” and you should see your actual IP. That IP along with the actual port number should be part of the URL you would use for access. It should look similar to:

http://xxx.xxx.x.xxx:xxx/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?camera=1

add: Forgot one thing…You need to port forward. In your router, port forward the port you select to the IP address of your webcam. The IP should match up with your internal net address’s…if you internal address’s are 192.168.1.1xx the on the router, set it to port forward requests from the external IP:Port to the IP of your webcam and include the port #.

Entering that URL in a browser window results with a “Page can’t be displayed” message.

I switched the port to 3193 in the webcam IP setup console, just in case 4012 is being used by something, but that didn’t seem to help.

EDIT: I have also already port forwarded 3193 in the router port forwarding settings. Still nothing.

Try this one…

https://whatismyipaddress.com/?u=TRUE

Same IP.

Just FYI your IP isn’t a secret because you have your webserver running on it :wink:

http://www.showmemyip.com/

or you blanked it out in the shields up query…