Hi,

I was wondering if there is any solution, native or 3rd party, that is available to constantly record the feed from an Insteon IP camera and still have it accessed and controlled by the ISY994i? I've done searches, but haven't found anything. Perhaps I am not looking in the right places.

 

Any help would be appreciated!

 

Thanks,

 

John

What insteon IP camera have you found? To my knowledge there are no "insteon" cameras.

 

There are a few that can be "controlled" with network resources, and a few that can issue a rest command to the ISY to tell it there was motion.

 

If you are on Apple devices, the version of Mobilinc there has some native camera support, but it does NOT go through the ISY.

 

you can make your own webpages that show the camera functions and allow you to interact with insteon devices should you click on them.

 

Alan

I am referring to the

 

INSTEON Wireless Security IP Camera with Pan, Tilt and Night Vision - Product # 75790WH

 

that is available from Smarthome.

 

Thanks,

 

John

Great question that I'm interested in too.

I am not using the Insteon ip camera but one purchased thru amazon for 50 bucks called wansview. Works good enough for my uses. I am using a program called Motion on a pogoplug running archlinux. Motion will record video and produce snapshots when the program detects motion in an adjustable field of view of the cameras output. Works pretty well. Motion will also work with multiple camera setups.

 

http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/motion/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Webcam_Setup

I am referring to the

 

INSTEON Wireless Security IP Camera with Pan, Tilt and Night Vision - Product # 75790WH

 

Ah, I see, they call it insteon because their houselinc and hub software can control it, but in reality it has not insteon connection in the sense it is a node in the insteon device family. Might as well be called HUB Camera our Houselinc Camera.

 

Now just as their software supports it, you can make a java app that would talk with the ISY (like the admin console does now) and support the camera if they give you enough details to control it directly.

 

Someday will make the camera plunge, will wait for Mobilinc to support it on android, and 1080P cameras in the $200 range instead of the $400 range. I would sure like to be able to tell WHO was prowling the car, not just that they were in a black hoodie and you cannot make out their face in 40 pixels or less.

 

Alan

Bad link...

https://joscor.com/2015/02/insteon-75790-video-recording-cgi-api/

if that doesn't work, just go to joscor.com, link is near top of page

No clue why my link didn't work... It even shows correct in the URL bar. toflaherty, what did you do differently? I'm curious now. 

Your original link ended with "%C2%A0"  Once removed, the URL is fine.  If you look at the original link, you will see the underline extend beyond ...cgi-api/

 

-Xathros

Edited February 5, 201510 yr by Xathros

I just wrote something about this on another thread. Read it here.  http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/15343-what-camera-solutions-are-you-integrating-with-isy/?p=130907