capture image from network camera and post to website automatically

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inkuyo

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#119621 8-Jun-2013 05:57

I am trying to capture an image automatically from this camera: Dahua IPC-HDB3200C

Then I want to post it to a website. I want to do this once an hour.

Anyone have any pointers?

I am a medium web developer. It seems this camera is kind of a pain, as it uses active X and in any of the three browers (IE10, Chrome, Firefox) not all the functions of the active x work.

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#832512 8-Jun-2013 09:08

Does't the camera have any setting to automatically sending an image via email or ftp? I had an old dlink years ago that coul dftp an image when it detected motion.

Or perhaps you can ssh/telnet to the camera and find where the camera internally stores the and pull it and send it out.

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#832513 8-Jun-2013 09:10

Try a Google search for ispy. I use this and it works well once you get you head around it. I'm not sure if it will support thatccamera but it will be worth a try. You don't need to pay for the feature you want so ling as you have access to a ftp server to upload to

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#832514 8-Jun-2013 09:13

The camera has an FTP option. Setting it to capture an image and post it to a FTP folder takes all of about 30 seconds to configure.

As this is a professtional CCTV camera and not a webcam I'm not sure if there is an option to upload just once every hour. You may need some 3rd party webcam software to do this.

inkuyo

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#832537 8-Jun-2013 10:04

It does have the FTP connection but I cannot get it to work properly.

It has an option for an internal SD card, but I haven't tried to pull from that yet.

I will check Ispy out.

inkuyo

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#832607 8-Jun-2013 11:57

OK. The answer is with ispy.

For what ever reason the dahau FTP won't work, but it works with ispy. I can upload the image to the FTP server and it is linked on the website.

Thanks for your help.

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#832611 8-Jun-2013 12:03

I use FTP on the Dahua's so it does work, the fact you haven't put a memory card in may be an issue.

inkuyo

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#832626 8-Jun-2013 12:52

Do you try to use the FTP to upload an image to a server? I am trying to upload an image once per hour.