escam Snail QD500 on RPi3

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Got this quite inexpensive wired IP camera on ebay a while ago and decided to put it to work on a Zoneminder on a Raspberry Pi 3 (Ubuntu Server 16.04). Was not really difficult based on information found via google (plus some extrapolation).

So here are the details:
Tab "General"
Source Type: Remote
Tab "Source"
Remote Protocol: RTSP
Remote Method: RTP/RTSP
Remote Host Name: IP_Address_Of_Camera
Remote Host Port: 554 (or 8554 if you use a second one on port 554)
Remote Host Path: /user=<user>&password=<password>&channel=1&stream=0
Capture Width: 1280
Capture Height: 720

You have to set the camera to DHCP (out of the box it has a fixed IP). You need to run it therefore on a Windows machine using IE and ActiveX. There you can also set the port if you use two IP cameras (one on 554 and the other on 8554).

I have two IP cameras on a RPi3 running considerably well with about 5..10fps each. The cameras (escam Snail QD500 and kkmoon TP-Hi100BY) are quite remarkable considering the price (around 22 Euro).

I will create second topic for the entries of the kkmoon camera just to get found - the configuration is exactly the same.

You can try if the cameras run outside of Zoneminder by typing this into Firefox (tested on Ubuntu 16.04):

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rtsp://<IP_address>:554/user=<user>&password=<password>&channel=1&stream=0

Have fun!