IP Camera Tools
Show IP Camera on the TV
The coolest way to show off your Dahua NVR or any other IP cameras on your TV screen
Phones and TVs
TinyCam Monitor Pro
tinyCam Monitor Pro is absolutely awesome and works like a charm.
You can easily set up TinyCam on your TV in your HA home automation, as explained here: Integrating NVIDIA Shield with Home Assistant
tinyCam Monitor PRO is the way to go if you want to view your surveillance IP cameras on Android TV, while the free version is only available on phones. The paid version also works on Smart TVs and has awesome features like A.I. object detection, face detection, motion detection, Tasker automation, sync settings via Cloud services, and really all the bells and whistles.
Onvier
As a less-than-ideal alternative, there is Onvier as it’s just a smidge worse than the tinyCam option.
On Desktop
Turns out, there’s not a lot classic native desktop apps for checking out surveillance IP cameras.
IP CENTCOM
The closest you can get is IP CENTCOM. It’s a Windows application from the same company that makes Onvier, IP Camera Central Command. You can install it the fastest by typing winget install --id=9NBLGGH2SJQG -e into your command line.
Frigate NVR
Frigate NVR is the new champion, especially because of its tight integration with Home Assistant and its unreal AI object detection. It runs on a Rpi3, but in realitry requires a Google Coral.ai Accelerator for full power.
Agent DVR / iSpy
iSpy | ispysoftware/iSpy was really open-source while it lasted and was pure desktop native application written in C. It’s now been deprecated and replaced by Agent DVR, which isn’t open-source, but it’s free for personal local use. Agent DVR runs as a service and can be accessed through a web browser at http://localhost:8090. As usual these days, it’s a hefty 190Mb in size, but it has a solid UI. Plus, its integration with HA, Agent DVR Integration, is great. As much as I love native apps, I must admit this one is really well written and works quite well.
What I don’t like is that I wanted a native desktop app and Agent DVR is best to be put onto RPi3. Also, Uuninstalling Agent DVR is a bit wild and it’s explained here: Agent DVR Userguide, but in short:
- Stop and remove the service named “Agent” using GUI or by simply typing
sc.exe stop Agent; sc.exe delete Agentor by runingagent-uninstall-service.batfromC:\Program Files\Agent - Simply delete the whole
C:\Program Files\Agentfolder, since it is a portable application and it doesn’t install into the add/remove programs list in Windows.
Shinobi
Shinobi | moeiscool.github.io/Shinobi/ is the real deal open-source, and is often mentioned in positive tone among users.
Others
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Ambianic has “person fall detection and alerting”, but it’s definitely unfinished as a lot of boilerplate content in all over their website.
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ContaCam is open-source
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Yawcam is free, written in Java
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Blue Iris Software is a serious product, but it ain’t free
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Sighthound Video looks solid, but it ain’t free either
Dahua Camera Integration
rroller/dahua: Dahua Camera and Doorbell Home Assistant Integration
Dahua Kamere, model IPC-HDW1230S-0280B-S5: Dahua DVR: XVR5108HS-X
Stream on DVR:
rtsp://user:pass@192.168.0.X:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=9&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif
RTSP URL address format for Dahua devices DahuaWiki
WebRTC is even better
AlexxIT/WebRTC: Home Assistant custom component for viewing almost any camera stream in real time using WebRTC and other technologies. How to get lag-free video in the Home Assistant dashboard
type: 'custom:webrtc-camera'
url: 'rtsp://<user>:<pass>@192.168.0.220:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=9&subtype=0'
Sunluxy IP Camera
Model: Sunluxy BT466, 720P IP Camera Exact features: 1MP HD 720P, H.264, Two-way audio monitoring, IR-cut Night Vision, Local storage on MicroSD, ONVIF 2.0 protocol Specs: https://www.aliexpress.com/i/32791553209.html Max Resolution 1280 x 720 at max 15fps
Where I found links: https://www.ispyconnect.com/camera/sunluxy https://camlytics.com/camera/sunluxy https://learncctv.com/ip-camera-rtsp-url-list-for-blue-iris-and-other-software/
RTSP stream works with the following url: rtsp://192.168.0.X/onvif1
Open ports: 8008 8009 9000 8443 Onvif services are on port: 192.168.0.X:5000
ONVIF 2.0? This camera is mistakenly advertised as ONVIF 2.0 compliant, but its implementation is way too incomplete to work with Synology Surveillance Station. The Onvif Device Manager detects the camera but fails to read the complete profile. So it seems there’s been some (aborted) efforts in that direction at least.
By default the RTSP port is usually 554, the HTTP/ONVIF port is 80 or 8080, and the HTTPS/ONVIF port is 443. The default port for ONVIF is 8000.
Tool that is working:
Onvier found everything by company: IP Camera Central Command that has also Windows version: IP CENTCOM - Microsoft Store Apps
Interesting URL’s to explore:
192.168.0.X:5000/onvif/ptz_service 192.168.0.X:5000/onvif/device_service
Skoro sam siguran da je firma bila Shenzhen Sirian Technology Co., Ltd. koja se sad zove Sricam, Shenzhen Sricctv Technology Co., Ltd
Originalna aplikacija: SUNLUXY Tako da je ispalo da radi i: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xapcamera&hl=en&gl=US I u njemu je bio i Device update a promenio sam i šifru na “dvaput-kuma”
Tačan model je Sricam SP012:
- Sricam SP012 P2P HD IP Camera Review - Gadget Victims
- Sricam SP012 2.0MP IP Camera 4X Zoom Mini Indoor 360° View Wifi Camera 1080P Smart Home Wireless CCTV Baby Monitor Two Way Audio - AliExpress Security & Protection
- cjpetrus/sricam-onvif-hacks: for use with sricam sp012. this allows you to use ptz controls using the arrow keys on your keyboard(pygame) and soap requests with the requests module.
Video chipset GM8135S
rtsp://ipcam:554/onvif1 for HD (1280 x 738) rtsp://ipcam:554/onvif2 for low resolution (320 x 194) ptz control http://ip-cam-address:5000/onvif/
The Sricam app is the main user interface for the camera since it has no web server. The services available are UPnP/5000 and RTSP/554 only. Onvif compliant viewers can detect the SP012 on the port 5000.
Tools that work: