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adam333

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Can you send me your driver. You can Message me and I will reply w my email. I bet you are missing an escape character or have an open statement somewhere if it won't print the test url. It should print that then do the test.

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Update, I have been working with c4 on this!  Good news bad news.  Good news, Control4 has been awesome.  Bad news they can't really seem to get to the bottom of the problem.  So as it stands this driver will remain in the mostly working position.  I will review again with new OS updates if I can fix more of the driver.

 

1) You have to have composer pro to install the driver

2) The driver will not do video on the on screen (TV) navigator - I am working with C4 on this

3) I recommend installing the latest firmware on the camera

4) I recommend lowering the frame rate and picture quality depending on your internet upload speed

5) PTZ only working on the PC/Mac app and the Android App (NOT iOS - I am working w/c4 on this)

6) I recommend setting up DDNS on the camera and using that for remote access, if you do this and check the remote access checkbox in the driver config then you can get the picture to load faster.

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I figured I'd throw my foscam driver into the mix in this thread as well.  I've posted it elsewhere but wanted people to know it's available.  It uses the new camera proxy from 2.5.3.  It also handles panning properly.  The trick for me was using the onestep option to the cgi command to the camera.  i.e.

 

decoder_control.cgi?command=4&onestep=1&degree=10

 

My specific model is the FI8910E but it should work out of the box for any F189XXX cameras.  This camera works great on my android tablets and phones as well as the HC-800 on screen navigator.  It also works great on the PC control4 interface.  I don't have any C4 touchscreens to tell if this works there.  Anyways, here's the link along with my JVC DLA-X500r driver.

 

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwJZg1ia4r57RHRTaG9qWnFPQnM&usp=sharing

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I figured I'd throw my foscam driver into the mix in this thread as well.  I've posted it elsewhere but wanted people to know it's available.  It uses the new camera proxy from 2.5.3.  It also handles panning properly.  The trick for me was using the onestep option to the cgi command to the camera.  i.e.

 

decoder_control.cgi?command=4&onestep=1&degree=10

 

My specific model is the FI8910E but it should work out of the box for any F189XXX cameras.  This camera works great on my android tablets and phones as well as the HC-800 on screen navigator.  It also works great on the PC control4 interface.  I don't have any C4 touchscreens to tell if this works there.  Anyways, here's the link along with my JVC DLA-X500r driver.

 

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwJZg1ia4r57RHRTaG9qWnFPQnM&usp=sharing

 

Mega bump here, I know, but your driver has been the only one to work for my FI8910W, so first thank you for that. The cam is in the system and I see it via the C4 app on my iPhone, but the touchpanels and on-screen directors just show the default thumbnail and a black screen when you enlarge. Is this related to the (lack of) h264 issue that was being discussed?

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sorry for the double post. I have 2 cams. I installed the driver quoted above (from rytinng), and then installed the other cam with this more generic driver posted by cannemi over here: http://www.c4forums.com/topic/15495-foscam-fi9805e-driver/#entry133987

 

rytting's driver doesn't allow the cam to be viewed from TS or navigators, but the more generic one made by cannemi does work -- although there is a typo that must be fixed:

 

 

        <URL>/snapshot.cgi?user=c4user&pwd=c4pass</URL><URL></URL>

 

You need to remove the extra URL tags at the end:

 

 

        <URL>/snapshot.cgi?user=c4user&pwd=c4pass</URL>

 

And of course, edit it to change the user/pass to w/e yours is.

 

Hope this helps!

 

OK another update. Used the same driver on both cams, and still only one works on the TS and OSD. I think what it comes down to is firmware as the cameras have different branches.

 

The one on the 11.22.2.xx branch works, while the one on the 11.37.2.xx branch does NOT. According to their own docs, there's hardware differences between the two (although the model on both is FI8910W). So at the moment, this is the only thing I can think of to account for the discrepancy.

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So, it's pretty new, but anyone have luck with the new C1?

 

Seems like the URL structure has changed:

http://IP:PORT/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=user&pwd=pass

snapPicture2 is supposed to return just the image while snapPicture is supposed to return HTML, but both are returning HTML like below. Too tired to continue tinkering tonight, but I'm thinking that may be the issue.

 

<html><body><img src="../snapPic/Snap_20150421-213850.jpg"/></body></html>
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