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[+/-] Embedding stream and PTZ control onto external website Currently have a webcam stream embedded into my webpage www.westbourneswansea.com/webcam.htm is it possible to embed abelcam using similar look but w .. Mark, see the Wiki Pages.. Yea, I've looked at the WIKI pages but there is little direction on how to get the JAVA applets (which i believe is the best choice for my site) up an.. Ok really need help. got so far and got stuck here, everything seems to be working but just wont connect to server http://www.westbourneswansea.com/we.. ok sorted it now! when in doubt, try, try, try again.. Mark, you may comment on the wiki page and add the information that you think is missing...	MarkLi	5	3397	10/08/2009 - 05:00 PM By sse
[+/-] How does one remove a Camera from the AbleCam LIST? I added my camera but if I want to remove it from the list, how do I do that? .. In the Internet Configuration uncheck listed (by default this is not checked)..	MikeDs	1	4116	10/05/2009 - 06:04 AM By sse
[+/-] Use Abelcam to convert IP mjpeg stream to local camera driver? Is there anyway to use Abelcam (or to add the feature) to convert an mjpeg stream to be presented as a local camera device that could be used in Windo .. No, this feature is not implemented nor planned...	DannyM	1	5498	09/24/2009 - 02:09 AM By sse
[+/-] Trouble bridging through firewall. We have set up Abelcam on a computer inside of our network, and would like to have the firewall redirect a certain URL to the abelcam web server. We .. You should teach your HTTP to HTTP bridging ( apache rewrite / proxy rules? ) to fix those URLs. If you want to edit AbelCams html pages, copy the en..	ZelB	1	2942	09/22/2009 - 05:16 PM By sse
[+/-] Opening Port 8080: ActionTec MI424WR got everything working internally but having trouble getting the stream from the web. Introduced a portforward on my router, pointing any traffic comi .. When you check access from outside are you truly outside or are you inside pointing a browser at your outside IP? I ask because a lot of routers don't..	ChrisH	1	3923	08/06/2009 - 09:25 AM By MelvinG
[+/-] Understanding licensing What licensing do I need if I want to run AbelCam on two computers that have only one camera each? The computers are in very different locations 100 .. Seems to me you need 2 AbelCam Pro licenses - one for each of the machines. This assumes you want each machine to be completely independent of the oth..	ThomasS	1	3190	08/06/2009 - 09:18 AM By MelvinG
[+/-] Windows 7 - locations Just a note I hope is helpful... in Windows 7 current RC the location for the localsave.xml is: C:\ProgramData\Seiz System Engineering\AbelCam\camQui .. As usual - each camera has a different folder ... Bye ..	MichaelTh	1	3617	08/05/2009 - 08:02 PM By MichaelTh
[+/-] How do I restore user interface ??? I just purchased Pro thinking this might unlock and restore the interface so that I can add my camera, etc... so now I cant even add the pro-key. Im .. I might not be understanding your issue correctly here... but if the problem is just that you don't have an AbelCam user interface on your screen to l.. The problem is that my new camera (Logitech Orbit AF) is not working or being picked up by Abelcam. I believe its because I never "added" it as a new.. Popular demand: Service Tutorial..	ChrisH	3	3157	08/03/2009 - 09:34 AM By sse
[+/-] White balance problem Hello, All my webcams are filming my reef aquarium. Last week I changed the 2 HQI (HID) lamps for news 12000°K 400W lamps (before that old 400W lamps .. AbelCam does not do anything with White Balance. You should probably post this question over on Logitech's forums and see what they say. How about pu.. I understand that white balance is under Logitech driver control not Abelcam control. The idea to put a gel filter in front of the lens is excellent, ..	Jean-MichelV	2	3407	06/08/2009 - 11:13 PM By Jean-MichelV
[+/-] Is AbelCam abel to help me? Hi, I'll try to explain my needs as best as possible. I have a set up, two PCs and one webcam. I want to be able to use the webcam feed on both PCs .. AbelCam makes your webcam available as a web service, not as a windows video device. So the answer is: no, this won't work.. I read that AbelCam can send video over a network and not just as a web service... Is that correct and could this be a way for me to make my idea work.. AbelCam can send video as Windows Media Streams (wmv). Due to compression this causes a > 5second lag. I don't think your clients (MSN/Skype) will.. From sse: AbelCam can send video as Windows Media Streams (wmv). Due to compression this causes a > 5second lag. I don't think your clients (MSN/S.. This outside the scope of this forum - see with the programs you mentioned.. How do I set up AbleCam to send wmv to another PC and veiw it on that PC? Even with the 5 second lag will be OK. Thanks.. Read in the Wiki .. Thanks ..	WayneBo	8	3776	05/03/2009 - 10:24 AM By WayneBo
[+/-] Follow Motion Hi! I'm using 3.0.2 and in the PTZ part there is a "Follow Motion" box. I'm wondering where the threshold for this can be adjusted? The other optio .. Hello Pete Threshold for follow motion cannot be adjusted. What do you need - lower or higher sensitivity? Next release (3.1.0) will respect invert .. Lower sensitivity would be good, as I find the camera starts to watch something which certainly isn't moving alot. Pete ..	Pete	2	3426	04/26/2009 - 03:27 PM By Pete
[+/-] Issues with AbelCam through Remote Desktop Dear all, I am having issues using Abelcam over Remote Desktop: 1. The fading splash menu takes quite long to load - can it be either non-fading, or .. Hello Nika 1) try starting AbelCam with the /nosplash parameter. This should supress the splash screen 2) Probably you are connecting some devices (.. Yeah, thanks! Both solved (/nosplash works and "leave sounds at remote computer" fixed it crashing with RDP)!!.. I have abelcam.exe in my Startup list. Adding the /nosplash parameter produces a "can't use /" error. I tried using quotes, but that didn't work eith.. You may omit the slash, abelcam.exe nosplash will suppress the splash screen as well...	NikaL	4	3954	04/14/2009 - 10:49 PM By sse
[+/-] .prx files? I need to modify the streaming profiles but I am not finding the appropriate profiles in the Ablecam directories - or anywhere else for that matter. S .. AbelCam utilizes the "system" profiles, which are normally found in C:\windows\WMSysPr9.prx (or more accurately, %windir%\WMSysPr9.prx). This file can.. Thanks. That was what I suspected...	MaxC	2	3760	04/11/2009 - 11:44 PM By MaxC
Configurating FTP Upload Hi, I have created an ftp-folder on my webspace which I am able to access with FireFTP. The Problem is, that with the same login-data AbelCam rejects ..	KeithBa	0	3102	04/03/2009 - 03:02 PM By KeithBa
[+/-] Trying to add an IP Camera on LAN Have ablecam working on my Logitech sphere & works great. Web Seerver &everything Might like to get ablecam to work with my other (noname) wireless I .. It sounds like you're doing it right. Hmmm... I have a couple of thoughts: If you don't have a license for a 2nd camera you need to stop the Sphere w.. Hi, Thanks for your reply. 192.168.2.21:81/image.jpg works fine direct into my browser. I have used this in the past with another remove viewer. Off a.. I'm afraid I have no idea what the problem could be with the IP cam. If you haven't got it sorted on your own yet, the best thing to do probably is cr.. I have submitted to SSE but says very busy at moment so could be a while. In the end I fiddled with Agents and got a licence for this also. With the A.. Also follow up, With the two agents running they both show in the task bar at the bottom, can then be minimized to systray or pref. hidden completely... Another follow up to my own question. Ref. Agents starting automatically. I have tried using the commands option and I can get the agents to run here .. It seems strange that the IP cam would work with the Agent but not with AbelCam Web Video. I have not run into that before. Hopefully your debug files.. Thanks for taking time to consider my situation. SSE I guess will be sometime before getting round to investigating so I thought I might try a few th.. OK Greg, we agreed to discuss here and not through the support email Here's a summary what I wrote yesterday by email: > IP Camera test success,.. Many thanks to SSE for above services info. Being able to add agents as part of the services is great, Having a few issues but although spent most of.. Greg, I can confirm the crash on start-up when Start Minimized is selected. If I turn that option off, start AbelCam and then minimize it manually it.. Getting back to the original issue of using Web Video... I just made an interesting discovery. I have 2 systems running AbelCam here. When I tried Web.. Melvin, if the Agent knows AbelCams license string and is configured accordingly, it will be able to insert itself into AbelCams camera list. I added.. Melvin, Thanks for your efforts. I have got a 95% working solution but its one of those things niggling at me. Using WinPatrol (seems be quite a good .. Greg, Try the newest (2009-03-23) beta. Be sure to read the release notes on the ISSUE TRACKER before using. In short, to try the new IP Cam capture .. Melvin & SSE, Newest Beta - WORKS!! Only V.quick test so far but immediately found IP cams & seem to be fine, Minimize also seems OK. Many, Many tha.. Regarding the 100% CPU thing... rule #1 is Do Not Use VideoCapX unless you absolutely can not do without some feature that only it has. Rule #2 is to .. ref. CPU, The PC in question only has the Sphere on Ty so VideoCapx not an issure, not sure what the New Beta IP driver uses but on my other PC with t.. The new IP Camera capture interface most definitely will not control PTZ on an IP cam at this time. To make it do so is a large project, primarily bec.. Gregory, the IP camera driver does not yet do PTZ, but it's also on the list To Be Done. The latest beta, to be released tonight, support JPEG and Mo.. Melvin, we're in sync .. Yeah, we are! I'm staying up "late" here to wait for the next beta .. Sorry to tell you that the 'minced' version does not work (yet). Not sure if I can come back after diner to take care of this .. Looks much better now - Release 2009-03-24 available in Issues.. Hey Greg... did you try the sample code for window sizing I posted earlier? It's at the bottom of Page 2 of this thread... Hi, Yes I did, many thanks for taking the time. Only managed quick attempt & got quite a nice screen size, however I do use firefox & although worked .. A few follow up questions, again. When viewing using any of the java,javascript or silver options, after about 5 minutes they go back to the index. T.. For JavaScript and Silver you need to look in the respective index.html files for tags that look similar to this: <meta http-equiv="refresh" conte..	GregoryR	28	17619	03/30/2009 - 04:23 AM By MelvinG
[+/-] Abelcam website listing I have the software selected to list on the Abelcam website. It will be listed for some time, a few days, then it disappears from the websites listin .. Hello Steven Currently you have unchecked listed. Once the cam is listed, connectivity is verified every now and then (you'll see that in the messa.. Are you asking if I have it unchecked or do you know that I do? I would like to keep the camera listed, I do have a broadband connection. I do see t.. Steven, Speaking as one who has had his site listed for >2 years now I can tell you that if everything is "healthy" between your location and Swit.. No, Steven, I don't know what you are doing. But I do see that you have AbelCam 2.2.4 installed and I see that your Camera Page is set to http://www... The rhl61 website is not the camera that I was trying to list. I don't know if it is a coincidence but if I leave the Abelcam window open (not minimi.. Steven, I think that's coincidence because my AbelCam is always minimized, except when I need to see it to change a setting or something. So let's say.. It will be nice to have Next> also on bottom of Cameras List... Me again... There is mistake because near my webcam listed on cameras page is wrong flag: cr.png I'm from Croatia, or CRO, and my flag is shown cor.. I still have wrong flag listed near my webcam... (post above).. The underlying problem seems to be that the camera list thinks you are in CR (Costa Rica) instead of HR (Croatia). I'm not sure why that is happening,..	StevenB	10	4723	03/29/2009 - 12:01 AM By MelvinG
[+/-] native iPhone App for Abelcam?? ME WANT!!! ME WANT!! (I already view it over the web on the iphone, but a native app would be nice.. ) .. I'm not going to support the iPhone with a native app. How do the /pda web templates on the iPhone? You could improve those, and I could include then..	HliL	1	4629	03/13/2009 - 05:42 PM By sse
[+/-] Abelcam 3.0 is currently running message When I try to open abelcam from the start menu, I get a message telling me it is already running, but I can not find it anywhere. I am using windows .. Maybe you started AbelCam as Service? With the default configuration it does not show up on the desktop, and in the task list you can't kill it becaus.. Thanks I think that is gonna work...	MichaelSr	2	3170	03/05/2009 - 05:07 PM By MichaelSr
[+/-] Only records once, after that doesn't record any more Hello, I'm new to this, but when I use it, I go to Main/config/video save. and select "record single frame on motion detection. This works very well, .. What version of AbelCam are you using?.. 2.2.5 (XP).. Please upgrade to AbelCam 3.0.0 and see if you have more luck with that version...	JonathanV	3	3167	02/03/2009 - 08:25 AM By sse
[+/-] How to view my webcam online? Hi, I am lost. I've just added and configured my webcam. I ticked the 'Web Server' box and clicked the 'Autohost' button. This addded my IP address an .. Autohost inserts your external IP number. Depending on your router model and configuration, your external IP address is not accessible from within you.. For the password protection see the help file included with the program or on this server This question is answered in the HowTo This forum currentl.. Thanks for your swift reply. If I 'Go to http://localhost:8080/' I can see the picture perfect. However, if I use the Redirector Link, I can't see the.. canyouseeme.org that will tell you if the port is blocked, enter your Abelcam port number in the box and press check. Andrew.. Hay alguien que hable español? .. El idioma principal de los foros es Inglés. Sin embargo google parece bastante bueno en la traducción de las cosas. Si usted acaba de hacer su entra.. From GerryS: Can you advise me please? PS, I am part of a firewalled network, but as far as I know all ports are open. ipconfig will show your co.. dont seem to be able to get pass ports put pc into dmz and turned off firewall no go still any ideas, useing belkin router and hp pavilion laptop ,tr.. Thomas, have a look at www.portforward.com, you might find instructions for your router there... Thomas, Putting the machine in a DMZ is rather extreme but it seems like it should work. I have an additional suggestion: try using an obscure port n.. what are you talking about? the point is how to view the webcamera intalled in home Surveillance Systerm through internet website from any computer (i.. Hello Gerry AutoHost inserts your external IP address number, which is usually the IP number which connects your router to the internet. It is not u.. From JasonC: what are you talking about? the point is how to view the webcamera intalled in home Surveillance Systerm through internet website from an.. sorry Melvin,I just show my disappointment to these answers.I am a new user but my computer skill or knowlege is above the average.Gerry's question is.. Okay, I will try to put it all together in one post. For this example, "outside IP" is your IP address on the Internet (outside of the LAN). "inside .. thanks MelvinG, your last post is very helpful,I am almost there.one more thing, when i use redirector service, do i type http://www.multicamserver.co.. Jason, if you've got your AbelCam and your router set up right, when you go to the redirector page you should see 4 URLs and below them your cam pictu.. BTW Jason, I see in another thread that you don't like the GUI. Once you get your setup working, you might want to go to the Issue Tracker. Check out .. thanks Melvin,I did everthing as you instructed.everything was good until I click or copy these URLS or links to the redirector pages. they can be dis.. "why do the links work?" I'm going to assume that is a typo and what you mean is the links do NOT work... right?? I'm not sure what is wrong. Since .. yes, it is a typing error.I did the setting on webserver almost exactly same as you do,just checked some more options like autostart; collect client s.. To post a screen shot you must save it as a gif or jpg file, then put it on a web server, and then use the "Image Wizard" (below the row of smileys i.. you are absolutely right, I thought so too last night so that I emailed these URLS to my office. now I tried in my office OUT OF LAN, it does work alt.. Okay, it sounds like the access problems are solved. Now you probably need to tune your settings to get the best video your internet connection can su.. Hi. I'm trying to view my server on moby internet, but i get "Not Found" message. I cant open nothing, .jpg included. Can somebody reach my server f.. Hello Domenico, I just tried from my mobile, and it worked fine. Maybe you should ask your mobile provider if the have any restrictions. Some times t.. I just accessed your site from your link and it worked fine. I was able to see the video and move the camera normally. Somebody in Europe should answ.. Hi Is this already in version 2.3.8? "3) Wait until about Christmas time, when SSE will be launching "Abel Live" - a service that gets around most o.. Domenico, you probably set 'WebServer Basic / AutoHost on Startup' which indeed inserts your current public IP number. Otherwise, AbelCam does not cha.. Thank you a lot! There are lot of button for which I'm not sure what they really do I tried that also before, but not in good way... I unchecked WE..	GerryS	30	40829	12/15/2008 - 10:50 PM By DomenicoS