I'm looking for a webcam which could be viewed from behind corporate firewall where only http:80 is open. It has been difficult to find cameras which can be viewed via http:80 only. Now I have found one, or so I think, Axis 207: http://www.axis.com/products/cam_207/

The Axis 207 manual says it supports tunneling RTP over RTSP over HTTP to allow the cam to be viewed over a standard port :80 HTTP connection. This is necessary to enable the cam to be viewed from behind corporate firewalls where only http:80 is open. Sound easy here. I have doubts than this is going to be a pain to set up and working?!. Have you got any experience how easy this really is?

I am also looking at buying a 207w, but first I really need comments from you before...

Sorry to revive a post so old, but I currently use a DCS-920 via Wifi and it is horribly unreliable. It almost always drops the wifi connection, and refuses to re-connect to the AP.

I'd like to switch it to a 207W.

Can anyone confirm as to success or failure with any 207W in production?

~Jake

The Axis 207W has been discontinued. The replacement is the Axis M1031-W

Alrighty then... How does the Axis M1031-W work over wireless with zoneminder??

It's not a matter of the wireless working or not working with Zoneminder. Zoneminder will support MJPEG or RTSP (MPEG4). I have no idea if H.264 is supported or not.

Im aware of what zoneminder supports. I'm asking for real-world usages.

I have a DCS-920 which works great, but for some reason cuts out with zoneminder after a certain amount of time, making it useless for this task.

My question is how the Axis M1031-W performs over wireless with ZoneMinder.

I use a wired and a wireless 207. Connection to the AP seems fine and they have been solid up until recently when the wired one has started to become unavailable at times in the console. It is pingable though and I am still able to access it directly.

I think even the most expensive equipment will glitch at times though, my local Councils system they run in schools and throughout the area looses camera links all the time. The official fix is 'on and off again please' and thats that.

If your running them for a third party, sell them a maintenance contract When I worked in one of the local schools we set our machines and cameras to restart early every morning, as advised by the installers (we were not running Zoneminder, but a tens of thousand pound system with far less features).

Long ago I came to the same conclusion with Axis - especially the 207w. I set up a cronjob which reboots the camera once a day as it would eventually stop working if not.

Here's the crontab entry for axis cameras to restart them at 5:15 am.

Just change PASSWORD and the IP to suit your cams;

05 15 * * * curl -u root:PASSWORD http://10.0.0.114/axis-cgi/admin/restart.cgi &>/dev/null

You can also have the cron job run on the camera itself (they run linux), which is handy if it's not talking to the network.

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=43664#43664

That trick worked out fairly well, though I eventually gave up on wireless due to the ridiculous amount of other people's AP's around.

I recently got a axis 207MW. and when I testdrive it directly everything goes fine. I just use the following links:
http://192.168.1.57/demo/demo.shtml?typ ... rmat=mjpeg
and
http://192.168.1.57/axis-cgi/mjpg/video ... on=640x360

But In zm (which is the ZoneLive CD) I only get a normal video when I select the monitor. When I open the Zones I get a broken image.
I created the monitor with the presets of Axis 320x240 mjpeg which is (/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=320x240)
with remote host name: 192.168.1.57

Also I'm not able to set triggers there I also see broken images.
and I'm not able to use a larger resultion: then I get a broken image everywhere.


Any idea ?

There's only about one zillion posts on the Zoneminder forums and WIKI about how to fix this problem

I have to Axis 207. I was thinking to connect them with zone minder. Should it work just like that? Does my computer have enough capacity to record continous real time video mpeg4 from two Axis 207?

Computer:
Amd Athlon 2000+ ~1,6Ghz
512Mb
Ati Radeon 128Mb
Ubuntu/Kubuntu
Hard drive, probably 1,0 Tb.