Finally got to test a real PoE security camera.
Purchased it from Amazon, search for
IP Security Camera 1080P, POE(Power Over Ethernet) Outdoor Surveillance Security Camera, Waterproof IP66 Infrared Night Vision 65FT Support ONVIF
Got it for $36.00 and as of this writing they are out of stock.
This is no Amcrest or Hikvision, but it is cheap and does the trick.
When I had it on my network, it had a static IP address assigned to it, 192.168.1.18
Long story on how I figured this out, basically these cameras seem to come in with a 192.168.1.X ip address, and so I listen for any arp request on that network segment for any weird whois packets.
I always have these cheap cameras on a segregated network when I set them up, and I firewall them off completely when it is in production. They will try to communicate outside, always.
Even if they don’t assume that they do when you are not looking, don’t even let them do DNS searches or get NTP from out of that subnet.
Anyway, back to the camera.
One on the network I can access it via web page. Of course the Web page wants IE and to run some ActiveX controls. I let it have it, this VM is also not allowed to go on the Internet.
I have a Windows 7 VM to administer my cameras.
I portscan the camera to see what is open, and I
I use onvif device manager to prob each open port to find out which one is onvif.
Apperently it is http://ip:8999/onvif/device_service
Onvif Device Manager confirms it.
Unfortunately, it is hard to configure it with ODM, so I just use the web page.
You don’t need to install the plugin, you can get do all the configs you need.
This thing is weird though, camera does not honor usernames and passwords.
Simply opening it up in vlc with rtsp://IP:554/1/h264major is good enough.
Anyway, I configure it in zoneminder, it is pointing to stuff outside anyway, and it is up.
We’ll see how this camera goes.
Out of 5 stars I would give it a 3.
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