Topic: Webcam Ecowitt

[BaseLine]

For reference, these are my cams.

Zero privacy... no thanks.
Why people do this, makes absolutely no sense.

edit: and many have Google, Apple, Amazon etc recording every sound they make. This is madness.

[box]

Good evening,

I'm still going to test this webcam, because my BLOOMSKY no longer sends images to my site, no more APIs, you have to connect to the application
I tried a WEBCAM: c tronics but impossible to send the images to my site
I don't know which WEBCAM to use to replace my Bloomsky

Cordially

In the manual ( attached to my previous message ) there is no mention of this capability ( for a good quality camera you can take a look at hikvision's )

the manual mentions a solar panel, nothing on the website yet

Looking at the manual this camera seems to be a bit different - as well as no solar panel there is no battery pack
No manual on the website yet

[Rover1822]

response to BaseLine,

My pic, was of a private site on my LAN, that is not accessible from the outside Web. When I need to see it from remote ,  I VPN in to my LAN.
For a public site, shunting off a few images , via FTP etc.. is fine. IF I were hosting something like EcoWitt.net , or WU, which dropped their web cam stuff. I would be more worried about what someone was posting on their web cam footage, I know yall think someone just wants to post pics of the weather, but there is nothing to prevent them from posting something else... hint, wink, etc. In this day , and security concerns, it gets problematic.

For my personal web cam site, I post an image a minute via FTP , which is read in by the html page I present (with some basic JavaScript, and really basic skills),  with an overlay of weather . I work in IT, I am a programmer , for me this was simple. I control it all , from delivery to site, so I don't worry so much.

For those wishing to just upload a weather cam pic, to whatever site, I don't see an issue for them, I mean they control the cam placement and images. It does take some thought to make sure you not are potentially showing something you don't want to.

- Rover

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Regarding camera power consumption it should be really low.
Ivano reported, on an italian forum, that a single 18650 battery ( without solar panel ) powers the camera for 9 days ( and indeed the panel pictured in previous page is quite small ).

The tech specs report 600pA in standby, ~140mW active

[davidefa]

Regarding camera power consumption it should be really low.
Ivano reported, on an italian forum, that a single 18650 battery ( without solar panel ) powers the camera for 9 days ( and indeed the panel pictured in previous page is quite small ).

The tech specs report 600pA in standby, ~140mW active

Ok, now we need to know how long it stays on to take a snapshot, before returning to standby

P.S.
I don't know at what snapshot time interval the '9 days' figure given above refers to, don't know even if it was measured by Ivano or if it is a figure directly from ecowitt

[box]

Regarding camera power consumption it should be really low.
Ivano reported, on an italian forum, that a single 18650 battery ( without solar panel ) powers the camera for 9 days ( and indeed the panel pictured in previous page is quite small ).

The tech specs report 600pA in standby, ~140mW active

A quick back of enevelope suggests they are talking about a 3600mAh battery and 10 minute plus delay - all around 7 days assuming 1 minute to wake up take the photo upload and shut down again
Ok, now we need to know how long it stays on to take a snapshot, before returning to standby

P.S.
I don't know at what snapshot time interval the '9 days' figure given above refers to, don't know even if it was measured by Ivano or if it is a figure directly from ecowitt

A quick back of envelope suggests they are talking about a 3600mAh battery and 10 minute plus delay - all around 7 days assuming 1 minute to wake up take the photo upload and shut down again and 12 hours of night on average through the year (obviously this depends on Latitude and atmospheric affects and doesnt take into account the pre/post sunrise/sunset times built into the camera)

[alanb]

I would prefer that Ecowitt just open up their site to other cams, as opposed to camera that seems to only have one function (Upload to Ecowitt.net) . Well as far as I can tell, that seems to be the only function.

But I get the marketing, want a weather cam, have to buy ours to be on our site.

I wonder if they will eventually relax that policy. It seems it may be one of the few examples where ambientweather.net is better than ecowitt.net.

[box]

I would prefer that Ecowitt just open up their site to other cams, as opposed to camera that seems to only have one function (Upload to Ecowitt.net) . Well as far as I can tell, that seems to be the only function.

But I get the marketing, want a weather cam, have to buy ours to be on our site.

I wonder if they will eventually relax that policy. It seems it may be one of the few examples where ambientweather.net is better than ecowitt.net.

I supposed it's a potential cost of hosting

Ecowitt could do well enabling and hosting users' weather websites/cameras but it's a whole new business for them and potentially risky

Mind you they have built ecowitt.net to support their current products

[Gyvate]

a few more pieces of information regarding the HP10 WebCam features received from Ecowitt as part of an email enquiry:

- FTP will be added or upgraded later, but not with the current release.
- you can get a picture from the camera within your local network via HTTP GET command.
- the camera only has the function of taking a picture. there is no live stream.
- pictures will be in in JPG format.

[PNCATTE]

a few more pieces of information regarding the HP10 WebCam features received from Ecowitt as part of an email enquiry:

- FTP will be added or upgraded later, but not with the current release.
- you can get a picture from the camera within your local network via HTTP GET command.
- the camera only has the function of taking a picture. there is no live stream.
- pictures will be in in JPG format.

Hello
I just received the HP10 camera but I can't find how to get an image from the camera within the local network via the HTTP GET command

Can you give me some explanations to get the last image to send it to my host


https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=9PDBRT

Thanks in advance for the help


Cordially

[olicat]

Hi!

how to get an image from the camera within the local network via the HTTP GET command

Please have a look here.

Oliver

[PNCATTE]

Hi!

how to get an image from the camera within the local network via the HTTP GET command

Please have a look here.

Oliver

Hi!


But at least there is the possibility to get the current image via http/GET using a script (pull).
A push - e.g. via FTP - is planned by Ecowitt for a future firmware version. But I fear that only a few users will be able to use this. FTP without SSL is no longer supported by many hosters.
In the internal network you can easily build a wrapper, which fetches a time-controlled image from the camera and then sends it via FTP/file system.
Like this:

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curl -o `date +%y%m%d%H%M%S`-snapshot.jpg "http://192.168.15.182/capture"
or like this:

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wget -O snapshot.jpg http://192.168.15.182/capture
In the examples here, 192.168.15.182 is the IP address of the camera.

Like the other devices with web interface, the HP10 camera also provides some http commands to communicate with the camera. I assume that Ecowitt will provide an API description soon.
I assume that the resolution of the taken pictures can be influenced by parameters in the URL, as well as brightness, saturation etc. But so far I haven't found the correct parameters.
Analog to the API of the GW1100/GW2000 the following commands are supported: get_version, get_ws_settings, get_device_info, get_network_info. Additionally there is at least get_video_info.
Also commands to set settings (like set_ws_settings and set_video_info) are available. But I have not dealt with that yet.

The camera communicates with Ecowitt via http/POST. For this a multipart consisting of mac, PASSKEY, stationtype, dateutc, battery, md5 and the actual image (JPG) is sent via http/POST to rtpmedia.ecowitt.net.


Oliver

Hello ,

Thanks for the link but I'm a beginner and I can't find the solution to set up the curl
either by the address of my HP10 192.168.1.133 or another means


curl -o `date +%y%m%d%H%M%S`-snapshot.jpg "http://192.168.1.133/capture"

Thanks in advance for the help

Sincerely

[kheller2]

curl and wget are typically Linux/UNIX commands.  They have been ported to other operating systems.
I would imagine that just putting the URL into your browser would get a picture for you, for testing.

[Rover1822]

Curl is included as part of the OS in doze starting with build 17063 of win10.
I don't have the cam to test, but I have used curl for other things