Feedback: Yoosee cameras

[PMA]

I have successfully connected two kinds of Yoosee (Chinese) cameras to Xeoma.

One camera is brand Wuhan Morntrip model YQ8 (indoor, with basic PTZ, sound), the other is brand Techege model JW-IPC-BT522SW (outdoor, fixed, no sound).
Note: Yoosee compatible cameras claim to be compatible with onvif v2.

1. Defining the cameras
The cameras were not auto detected by Xeoma (but maybe due to point 2), so I had to declare them manually.
Main stream and sound are "rtsp://<ip>/onvif"
Preview stream is "rtsp://<ip>/onvif2"

2. Crash of the cameras
After 2 or 3 days of operations the cameras crashed (all ot them, not all at the same time, sometimes restarting, sometimes not). They crashed more or less every two days.
After investigation I saw that my firewall was blocking some UDP flows, from a "random" ports of each camera to a "random" port of the Xeoma server. I suspect that blocking this flow led to memory leaks in the camera software.
Anyway, I have no more crash after allowing this flow (together with rtsp of course).
Good to know.
(Note: I didn't retry the auto-detection with the ports open.)

3. PTZ
I didn't succeed in having Xeoma detecting the PTZ, despite trying the various ports that are documented in the Yoosee FAQ:
· What's the port number for ONVIF?
o ONVIF port: 5000; Device discovery port: 3702
· What's the RTSP URL address?
o rtsp://IPadr:554/onvif1
o Main stream rtsp://IPadr:554/onvif1
o Sub-stream rtsp://IPadr:554/onvif2
Maybe the PTZ of the cameras is not compatible with onvif. I don't know. I can't know.
Any help to progress on this subject is welcome.

[Admin_P]

Hello! Thank you so much for all the additional information and testing! We'll be sure to notify the users who struggle with these same brands, as well as add this to the supported list.
Concerning PTZ: does it work via browser? Does the admin page allow you to set up an ONVIF port or PTZ port? If possible, could you give us access to one of those cameras via static external IP? Please send the connection data over e-mail.

[PMA]

Hello,
> Does the admin page allow you to set up an ONVIF port or PTZ port?
Yes. I tried the 3 that documented by Yoosee (554, 5000 and 3702) but the "test" failed => "No PTZ"

> "does it work via browser? "
Can you please be more explicit about this? I have Xeoma light, so no PTZ through the Web interface.

Yes, I can provide you with access to the camera, by mid-september. I will provide you the static IP address, the local IP address, camera ID (login) and password.
The login and password are not required for connecting to rtps flow but maybe for PTZ. So I tried to add these info to the rtsp address, but PTZ still failed to be recognized.

Which port(s) of the camera do you want me to redirect from the outside?

[Admin_P]

Can you please be more explicit about this? I have Xeoma light, so no PTZ through the Web interface.

I mean using the camera outside Xeoma. When you access the camera's admin page (by putting its IP address in the browser's address bar) it should give you the option to use PTZ directly. Do PTZ controls respond this way?

Which port(s) of the camera do you want me to redirect from the outside?

It would be best to forward ports 80 and 554, as well as any other ports mentioned in the camera's admin page. With that we should be able to get to the bottom of this.