IP camera EDIMAX

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Hi, I know it is not officially supported, but I have IP camera (EDIMAX) and I would like to use it with octopi. For the live stream it works like a charm. I just add to stream URL http://webcam_ip_address/mjpg/video.mjpg and it works. For Timelapse unfortunatelly, it is not that easy. Edimax provides users with snapshot http://webcam_ip_address/jpg/image.jpg. But Octopi shows an error "Got this as a content type header: text/html. Please double check that the URL is returning static images, not multipart data or videos." Thing is that my url DOES return static image! Any ideas how to resolve this?

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Use curl in a Terminal prompt to see what the IP camera is really sending back.

curl -v http://webcam_ip_address/jpg/image.jpg

It should provide details about pulling that URL. It may very well be just a snippet of HTML code which is perhaps a 301 redirect or it's got HTML with a <head> section which includes a redirect. You're interested in that new URL that's given to you. It's probably an uglier URL, has a deep path to it or something like that. But try that path directly and see if it returns a JPG. If so, then give that path to OctoPrint's settings.

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thx for a quick reply. it shows this:

  • Trying webcam_ip_address...
  • TCP_NODELAY set
  • Connected to webcam_ip_address (webcam_ip_address) port 80 (#0)
    GET /jpg/image.jpg HTTP/1.1
    Host: webcam_ip_address
    User-Agent: curl/7.52.1
    Accept: /

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Server: GoAhead-Webs
Date: Mon Sep 10 20:56:08 2018
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Network Camera"
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html

  • no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end
Document Error: Unauthorized

Access Error: Unauthorized

Access to this document requires a User ID

  • Curl_http_done: called premature == 0
  • Closing connection 0

It is strange tough because it does not requiere anything in a web browser - anonymous login. Even when I try to add user name and password into the links the result remains the same.

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Oh I see now! I have to use this syntax:

http://username:password@webcam_ip_address/jpg/image.jpg

this way it works! It seems, that octopi does not like annonymouse access :slight_smile:
Thank you for pushing me the right way!

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