New H.T.M.L./javascript software for controlling FI8918W

[klausweber]

How to take automatically a pre-programmed series of pictures with an IP Camera (press a button and determine the camera to move by itself from preset position 1 to n, take pictures and transmit them)?

I mounted my FI8918W camera on a tripod and set it for six preset positions.

What I want now is that, a few times a day, when I access the camera in a browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox or one for mobile phones) to just press a button and determine the camera to move automatically from preset position 1 to 6, take pictures and send them to me in order I can see the images in my browser.

Moving the head of the camera from position to position and taking pictures, using the software that comes on the camera CD, is quite impractical for my application. I have to give too many commands.

[Victor]

Try this free HTML/javascript code called EasyCamPic. It does exactly what you want.
I have tested it in Firefox and Internet Explorer and it works. It also runs on iPad, iPhone (Safari browser). I have done some tests on a Motorola mobile phone with touch screen (I do not remember what kind of browser it had installed) and it also functioned.
It looks like EasyCamPic automation software for IP cameras can run on any javascript enabled browser.

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[klausweber]

If the wireless signal, between the router and IP Camera, is strong EasyCamPic works satisfactory. However, if the signal is weak and intermittent then some pictures appear blurred. Sometimes I get same image in two adjacent placeholders.

[Victor]

Just select a lower image resolution, for instance 320 x 240 instead of 640 x 480 or / and increase the Delay parameter value of EasyCamPic. Change it to 8 seconds, for example.

[klausweber]

What I want to do is to mount a Foscam FI8918W on a pole that has a jar on top (see the picture) and use a software that quickly moves the head of the camera from the first preset position to the last in such a way that at least two photos, preferable three, with each house are taken.

Question: Is this idea, with a FI8918W inside a jar, good or for some reasons it will not work well? I mention that all three houses are not inhabited and I can not visit the place more than twice a year. The temperature in that place varies between -10 C and +38 C.

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[klausweber]

How can I save all nine pictures at once?

[Victor]

Just save the web page containing all nine picture like any web page. Do not forget to choose the option "Web Page, Complete" from the Save As dialog box of your browser, otherwise the images will not be saved.

[PEC]

Is there a way, in the original software that comes with the camera (not EasyCamPic), to stop a FI8918W or FI8908W streaming video but allow the camera to move in any preset position (on the blind) and finally take a picture?

Streaming video continuously generates too much internet traffic which I simply can not afford.

I would like the IP camera to send just one picture a minute and the software I have to display it on the screen. (streaming images at a very slow rate, 1 image each 60 seconds).

[klausweber]

I have heard that Foscam FI8918W streams MJPEG video which is nothing else but a series of JPEG still images.
Is there any way (a SDK command or so) to determine the camera to send a MJPEG video sampled at 1 image a second or 1 image at each three seconds?
I know one can interrogate FI8918W each second and ask for a JPEG picture but this action will fill the cache memory of the browser with 3600 images/hour or 86400 per day which is simply not acceptable.

[TheUberOverLord]

I have heard that Foscam FI8918W streams MJPEG video which is nothing else but a series of JPEG still images.
Is there any way (a SDK command or so) to determine the camera to send a MJPEG video sampled at 1 image a second or 1 image at each three seconds?
I know one can interrogate FI8918W each second and ask for a JPEG picture but this action will fill the cache memory of the browser with 3600 images/hour or 86400 per day which is simply not acceptable.

Please see this, it has the option to control FPS rates as well as many other things.

More here: free-generic-browser-interface-for-foscam-ip-mjpeg-cameras-t2522.html

Don