IP camera image quality question

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…

Yeah, I thought about that after I blocked it out. I don’t know why I did that, I’m among friends here. LOL

Keep in mind that the directions I’ve given you are to allow people to connect directly to your webcam. AFAIK all the Amcrest cams run an internal webserver. If your using WD to serve the live feed then the setup would be different. Instead of pointing the router requests to your webcam you would instead point them to your WD computer. I am not familiar with using this method to serve up live video.

I’ve tried a few things and I can’t find anything to connect to on 4102 or 3193. Are you sure you have the port forwarded correctly in your router? I guess you must have done it OK with 80 'cause the website works :?

Try port 3732.

So, if you’re not familiar with this method, what method should I be using? In the “Connections” tab of the Amcrest setup console, it can handle TCP, UDP, HTTP, RTSP and HTTPS, and on the Multicast tab it can do Main Streams on port 36666, and Sub-Streams on 36667.

What’s the best method for doing this and how should I set it up?

I’m not familiar with using WD to serve the stream. :wink:

The only method I’ve used is to allow visitors to connect directly to my webcam so that’s the directions I gave you.

If I enter the Multicast Stream URL into the browser window, I get this bar across the top of a web page… much different than any other page that errors occur on. It doesn’t say it can’t find it, it says it’s “Unable to connect”. Try this URL:

http://239.255.42.42:36666/

I opened 36666 on the router.

That’s a special use IP, it will only work within your network.