web control object and camera by ip

[iOSC]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get image from my camera by ip (in fact, my iphone).
I tried to connect to "http://192.168.0.40:8080/" (address of the camera) with the web control object but it obviously doesn't work.
Could someone help me to figure it out.

Thanks

[Danny]

If you can broadcast the output to a HTML file whether local or remotely then you could load it up via the Web object or use a few other routes of parsing the final output...

Btw, it would need to be an external IP address that you connect to, unless your phone was in the network. What runtime are you designing this for? iOS? Android or Windows?

Windows would be pretty straight forward using the Web Control Object...

[iOSC]

Yes my iPhone will be used directly on the same network and the runtime is windows.

[Danny]

If you can output to a html file whether it's a live stream, updated image with a refresh or html5 then you can use the WebView extension to display it on your iPhone. It may take some tweaking and a bit of research but I can't see why something like this should be impossible.

[iOSC]

I'm not sure to be clear.
I'm using my iphone as a webcam by ip and need to display the image in my application made with mmf2.
Basically, i need to figure out how navigate toward this local adress (192.168.0.40:8080)

Thanks

[iOSC]

just can't figure it out ...

[danworth]

If it's anything like many IP CCTV cameras there might be a image that you can grab via HTTP. ie http://192.168.0.40:8080/cgi-bin/image.jpg

I assume that you've tested the url using a web browser and it works? If so, you maybe able to findout the image location by looking at the HTML source or viewing the image details by right clicking it.

Which iphone app are you using?

[iOSC]

Yes, the url works correctly in my browsers (firefox and ie).
The image location is obviously http://192.168.0.44:8080/cgi-bin/image.jpg but this url does not open neither.
The app is a free app found on the appstore, named "mini webcam"...

[iOSC]

so, any ideas?

[danworth]

try downloading the image and displaying it in a picture object "always" or "every x" instead of trying to view the page with the web control.