I have ordered a Sricam AP006 IP dome camera from China for security purposes. The basic functions work well (including PTZ motion control), but I would like to build some additional features to improve its efficiency.
The first and foremost is that I need customized video recording, but I can not figure out how to do that.
In more details: I want to capture and save the video stream while the camera is panning between a specified ‘A’ and ‘B’ points. I do not want to record all day long, only within a specified time interval.
Instead of using a dedicated DVR or NVR, I would apply a software-based solution. (I prefer .NET languages, especially C#.) I have made some researches and I think the easiest way to implement this feature if I use a camera library. But I can not see Sricam in the list of cameras supported by the only one C# camera librarythat I found.
Can anybody help me to get started? Any idea would be appreciated!
Have you looked at ‘iSpy’ ? http://www.ispyconnect.com/, they appear to support Sricam and their software is open source, so you can modify it if you wish, subject to their license, of course.
From my view - the only thing for such camera you have 2 options here :
1 - is to use such online services as iSpy which will record the incoming stream from your cam.
2 - to use additional hardware to record the video.
You can also consider an option to get another camera which will record directly on the card.
The second option - the easiest way which comes in my mind is to attach a laptop (does not matter where - just to be able to capture the video from the cam.) And then to use such programs as CamStudio or other analog which is free - it will video capture the screen of the laptop/desktop of the computer. You can check also the cameras quality and their online streaming videos - http://www.viralcameras.com/0/posts/20-car-parkings/23-car-parkings/41061-korea-republic-of-online-camera-syunsen-watch-cam-sony-.html
Some of them do have the recording capability.