On 2017-09-19 13:19, rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca wrote: > > friend just handed me a d-link DCS-936L network camera, and it would > seem that the normal use of these is via a tablet or smartphone, but i > would like to be able to use my fedora linux laptop and pop up a browser > window (i'm assuming) and view what the camera is seeing in real time, > and it's not clear how i would do that (yet). > > anyone done this? i want to use the camera *only* from within the secure > wi-fi network in the home -- no access from outside. what's the recipe here? I'm quite familiar with the Ottawa-based Lumenera cameras, having written Linux firmware kernel imager drivers for them: https://www.lumenera.com/products/surveillance/le375.html They are just a web page on the device configured by default with DHCP. Image streaming is MJPEG wrapped in HTML. Image streaming can be configured for RTSP/RTP. They don't do IPv6. I recently bought a Hikvision camera that needed another driver supplied for Windows. I was able to configure it via HTTP, except for live exposure view and setting up motion alarms and privacy masks which needed the plugin. I was able to use RTSP to stream the live output of that camera using standard open source tools (such as VLC? or maybe mplayer?) but wasn't able to get RTSP working within a web browser for configuration. This camera does IPv6. > rday slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________