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Camera recommendation for live streaming?

Michael Wheelock 7 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 2

I am looking for a recommendation. I am building a new house and want to add a real-time video stream of my front porch. Ideally, this would flow from an internal IP address to my Action Tiles app and not consume external bandwidth.


The house comes with a Ring Pro doorbell which would have been ideal since it is hardwired, but I know the proprietary nature prevents this.


I have a set of Alro Pro cameras but now realize this is not an option.


Can someone recommend a low-cost Wifi IP camera that can be hardwired for power, and gives me the ability to stream video real time to Action Tiles? Preferably that I can interface directly with the app via IP address and doesn't need to flow outside the LAN to interface.


I am thinking something like this:

http://bit.ly/2BHaQnc


I like the night vision capability

or http://bit.ly/2B961Sr


I like the PTZ capability but not sure if ActionTiles would support this?


Thanks for the guidance!

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They say they support MJPEG which is the only protocol supported by AT so you should be able to use those without issue.  When searching for a camera look for MJPEG support, or you will have to use software running on an always on PC that can transcode your cameras protocol to MJPEG.


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Thanks for contributing to the discussion, Brent!


You've summarized pretty accurately, but unfortunately there's one other significant constraint:  Authentication.


We cannot pass credentials to the camera to login, unless the are HTML parameters.


Chrome (and Chromium browsers like Fully), block "http://user:password@address" format for embedded streams.