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Normally I am not fond of canned software, but this one might be an exception. Motioneyeos is a raspberry pi implementation for the program Motion. Motion is software to control video capture devices. All control is done via the web. For purposes of this project we used an original raspberry pi. ( https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/releases ). There are several releases depending on the unit you have. First I tried a logitech usb camera clone. The system recognized it immediately. Not like a certain other operating system where you have to load the drivers for almost everything. Then we added an ipcamera (network ready). After adding the network camera file, it worked just like you would expect. The documentation for the camera did not have the description of the file. Fortunately the Motion software site did have that information.  ( http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WorkingDevices ) Again no additional drivers were required. Actual picture is muc...

Your web cams and CCTV may not be  secure. Use a search engine with the ipaddress of the unit and one of these search terms one at a time to see if the unit is accessible. These are only a few of many. inurl:/view.shtml intitle:”Live View / – AXIS” | inurl:view/view.shtml^ inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode= inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh inurl:axis-cgi/jpg inurl:view/index.shtml inurl:view/view.shtml liveapplet intitle:liveapplet allintitle:”Network Camera NetworkCamera” intitle:axis intitle:”video server” intitle:liveapplet inurl:LvAppl intitle:”EvoCam” inurl:”webcam.html” intitle:”Live NetSnap Cam-Server feed” intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 206M” intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 206W” intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 210″

Had a tripod, but the digital camera did not have a place for the screw from the tripod. No problem. a bit of pvc and a nut now allows the camera to have new uses.