Since I didn't have much experience with IP cams I had some trouble using the IP Cam in Domoticz. I picked this cam because I thought it was pretty cool to have an ipcam that is a little robot that can turn its head and speak. Of course I soon found out that with these cheap chinese cams the documentation is awful. The Ispy database is pretty useless if you don't know what the cam model is however after a lot of googling I finally found the correct document: INSTAR_CGI_MJPEG_Chipset_English.pdf
So the cam settings (port is 81) are
snapshot.cgi?user=#USERNAME&pwd=#PASSWORD&
The decoder_control.cgi (I only use presets but did test cruising and movement up/down and these work as well) Note that you need onestep=1 in the command for presets to work (in total you can have 16 presets: command=31, 33, 35 etcetc,).
xxxxxx:81/decoder_control.cgi?command=31&onestep=1&user=xxxxx&pwd=xxxxxA&next_url=
Hope this safes some time for other newbies to get things working in Domoticz.
(ps: I heard there are security problems with these kind of cams so better use them as toys and not as actual security cams)
(pps: also note the password can only be max 8 characters, any longer password will crash the ios app used to configure the cam. Wish I had known this before wasting 30 minutes searching for the reason why the app kept crashing:) )
How to get the Mini Robot CCTV IP Cam working in Domoticz
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