How to... show live feed from camera on dashboard

[Wagoneermaster]

Hello everybody,

I have been looking over again, but I can't just get it to work. Such a simple thing as a small preview box of my IP camera on the dashboard. No switching anything, just a simple preview!

No scripting whatsoever, just adding a box, selecting a cam and done. Please help!!!!

[viruscz]

hi,
1. make a new page in domoticz\www\templates nameit like: webcam.html and edit with notepad:

<br>
<h2>page name</h2>
<br>
<div style="float:center; width:520px; height:360">
<h2>Cam name</h2>
<br>
<a href="javascript:SwitchLayout('cam')"><img alt="video" id="imgDisplay" name="cam name" src="http://192.168.10.125:92/snapshot.cgi?user="user text"&pwd="password text"" width="480" height="360"></a>
</div>

2. add your cam in the domoticz setup cam with name of cam name from the page. then make a scene with this cam and use Aurora theme.

This are 2 variants how to add a cam to dashboard

[remb0]

use the theme aurora that theme made it possible.

[pandy]

Hi, can you tell me how ?
I only see a widget with no preview..
Thanks

[remb0]

check topic or wiki of aurora. It's really simple.
install aurora, check settings, setup camera, click on on dashboard.

[remb0]

check topic or wiki of aurora. It's really simple.
install aurora, check settings, setup camera, click on on dashboard.

[pandy]

Hello and thanks for the reply..
I installed the Aurora theme, I created a switch and associated it with my IPCam but when I create the widget I see a gray rectangle and only if I click on the small icon in the shape of a webcam I open the preview of my IPcam..
in the wiky page you see the widget that has the webcam image as background .. maybe I'm wrong?

[viruscz]

did you have the cam in the scene ?

[pandy]

Hello and thanks for reply..
I try to add cam in the scene but I find only the "button" that I created and associated with IPcam..
I create a scene with the IPcam button created but nothing happens.... surely I'm missing something..
but in the widget you see the preview of the IPcam or am I wrong?
Thanks

[JasonLewitt]

but in the widget you see the preview of the IPcam or am I wrong?

Yes you should i think...

[leandrosaltori]

Hello and thanks for the reply..
I installed the Aurora theme, I created a switch and associated it with my IPCam but when I create the widget I see a gray rectangle and only if I click on the small icon in the shape of a webcam I open the preview of my IPcam..
in the wiky page you see the widget that has the webcam image as background .. maybe I'm wrong?

Can you see the image in real time, or does it only show pictures when triggering a scene?

[pandy]

Hello,
I can't see the image in real time in the frame..
I see a gray rectangle and only when I click on the ip-cam icon, a window opens with the live of the ipcam.
thanks

[edwinh81]

Have yoy been able to fix this one?

I run into the exact same problem.

[nood]

Have yoy been able to fix this one?

I run into the exact same problem.

I also had this problem, but I found a way to get it to work.

I added a scene to my camera instead of a switch. Also make sure you have the normal view and not the compact.

Edit: the solution is much more simple . just drag the camera switch to one of the top 3 positions.

[lost]

I have been looking over again, but I can't just get it to work. Such a simple thing as a small preview box of my IP camera on the dashboard.

I'm also looking for a way to do this, without changing default theme... Some says you can create a switch on a camera, but didn't find how to do this (i'm still using "old-stable" v3.8153 as last stable seems to create many problems and reversing looks problematic because DB needs migration)?

Is there a standard way to do this (even from a custom web page tab)? This is really a missing feature, as my cameras (i'm not confident in their firmware security) are not allowed to directly connect to the outside (gateway defined to a bad IP + modem firewall not allowing external connection to/from cams IPs) I'm really interested in a convenient way to reach them from Domoticz web page.

[amplituda]

I have been looking over again, but I can't just get it to work. Such a simple thing as a small preview box of my IP camera on the dashboard.

I'm also looking for a way to do this, without changing default theme... Some says you can create a switch on a camera, but didn't find how to do this

If I understand you correctly, then you need to create a virtual switch Dummy and specify it as a slave on the desired camera - everything, the camera icon will appear on this switch.

[lost]

If I understand you correctly, then you need to create a virtual switch Dummy and specify it as a slave on the desired camera - everything, the camera icon will appear on this switch.

Your understanding is correct, but after adding a new virtual switch in tuning/hardware tab, when I want to add it manually to switches tab, selecting slave mode, the list for master device linking is empty (even if my camera setup is OK in tuning/other devices).

Is there something to do to enable a device being master of others I may have missed?

[Antori91]

If I understand you correctly, then you need to create a virtual switch Dummy and specify it as a slave on the desired camera - everything, the camera icon will appear on this switch.

Your understanding is correct, but after adding a new virtual switch in tuning/hardware tab, when I want to add it manually to switches tab, selecting slave mode, the list for master device linking is empty (even if my camera setup is OK in tuning/other devices).

Is there something to do to enable a device being master of others I may have missed?

Hello Lost,
I'm not sure to understand well your issue. In the camera setup screen, you have *first* to select your camera, then the (dummy switch) device already linked to this camera appears...But...Even if I've installed my cameras in Domoticz, I don't display them using Domoticz. The Domoticz camera display mode is awful (I don't speak for the Aurora Theme, I didn't try it) especially with smartphone device. You better use motionEye for such feature. It is really nice for camera display. I use Domoticz to turn on/off my cameras, manage PTZ camera ("doing camera patrol"), take snapshots and arming/disarming motionEye motion alarm feature http://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic ... 38&t=22436

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[lost]

I'm not sure to understand well your issue. In the camera setup screen, you have *first* to select your camera, then the (dummy switch) device already linked to this camera appears...

Problem is dummy switch must be slave of camera (what you mean by "link" I presume)... But when I try to edit dummy switch properties, after setting slave mode, the drop-down config list to setup a master device is empty!

Maybe there would be a solution with motion/motionEye, but looks using motion (especially using several cams/video flows) on a PI takes too much CPU.

As well, I've good wired cameras & wifi ones where there's no wire. So bandwith may also become a problem is cams (especially wifi) are continuously sending video over my LAN.

=> I rely on device integrated motion detection, even if not perfect (basic setup unable to prevent luminosity variations, even nigh/day mode switching, from generating false captures...). These captures are sent on a FTP (thus LAN bandwith only used when needed) managed by the PI on a tmpfs, with one subdir per cam checked every 10s by a python service that will notify captures to Domoticz using a virtual PIR switch (+7zip them encrypted & e-mail to a dedicated google account). So this can be linked to my global alarm management using real devices (PIR, door switches..), using a weighting mechanism (each switch type have it's own weight, based on device name with a prefix convention) to reject the few false positive that may occur from time to time with outside sensors: Weights are added on a 1mn sliding window base and if they exceed a figure, siren is started.

So, only feature needed is a way to get the video from Domoticz page when needed because the cams are not directly accessible from the outside. Your setup would hurt my current working way too much I think, even if I already considered using a motion daemon from the PI... but linked to the FTP captures: This may be the best of both worlds. Net bandwith only used when needed & better rejection of false positives using PI Linux motion detection (with low CPU use thanks to cam own motion detection use)!

At the time, I only use some utilities (based on jpg captures histogram) to remove files with low contrast (most of those resulting from day/night switching: I get a lot as I have a PIR managed outside lighting that kicks-in with every cats(/fox/weasel...) that gets there at night, triggering night vision switching 10's a night. Even those had to be carefully tuned to be able to analyse all images I can get in a 10s slice (so, motion would fit??)!

[Antori91]

I've setup my cameras months ago so I don't remember everything (and you do it only once). But I don't understand why you speak from the beginning about slave device. As far as I remember, for each camera, I created a dummy switch device, then went to the camera setup screen to attach it to a camera. Done ! No slave/master issue here !

About motionEye Raspberry CPU Utilization, in my environment for VGA display and two frames per second for display (values I set in motionEye) :
Mjpeg camera : about 4% CPU
H264 camera : about 10% CPU
These figures are only for cameras display from a device using motionEye website. It is much more less in non display mode (i.e. motionEye just monitoring the cameras for motion detection or motionEye idle). When I stop motionEye detection from Domoticz (what I call motionEye idle mode), even if I use 5 cameras, the extra CPU utilization is about 1/2 %.

About bandwidth, I use only WiFi in my house and I didn't notice any WiFi issue with motionEye even if the WiFi architecture I use is not optimized. Depending on their localization in my house, my cameras don't use the same SSID WiFi range extender to reach my Internet box, then the camera frames go using WiFi to my Raspberry (alarm server), connected to a WiFi range extender, to feed motionEye and then the motionEye video frames go back (still using WiFi of course) to my Internet box. The only network optimization I have is an Internet fiber connection. OK, it can happen only because my WiFi range extenders work great in my environment (not so easy to find good WiFi range extender from my experience).