{"id":1065,"date":"2015-06-05T14:49:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl-projects\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2015-06-05T14:49:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:49:03","slug":"notes-on-configuring-samsung-sno-6084r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/2015\/06\/05\/notes-on-configuring-samsung-sno-6084r\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on configuring Samsung SNO-6084R"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was drafted to purchase and configure yet another IP Network Camera to document the STEM building project. I chose the Samsung SNO-6084R for $750 from B&H Photo.<\/p>\n

Samsung web site hosts a PDF version of the User Manual. At 138 pages, one would think it might mention something about rtsp streaming. It does not, so I am writing these notes for posterity.<\/p>\n

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I pointed my browser at\u00a0http:\/\/132.198.153.89\/ . I was asked to log in. I used default user \u2018xxxxx\u2019 and password \u2018eye\u2019 . Then I was asked to download and install a special camera plugin. I did so, restarted my browser, went back to above address, where I was presented with the iPOLiS Network Camera WebViewer.<\/div>\n
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First thing I did was go to Setup=>System=>User and reset password to zzzzzzZ\u00a0(case sensitive)<\/div>\n
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The documentation said nothing about the rtsp URL needed to access to H.264 live video stream. Google found this reference:<\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.soleratec.com\/support\/rtsp\/rtsp_listing?camera_company=Samsung<\/div>\n
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which suggested<\/div>\n
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rtsp:\/\/ip_address\/profile2\/media.smp<\/div>\n
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So I dropped this address into VLC Player<\/div>\n
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rtsp:\/\/132.198.xxx.yyy\/profile2\/media.smp<\/p>\n

and it asked me for \u00a0a username and password. Oh, bother. I entered the admin username and password defined above, and it worked!<\/p><\/div>\n

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But I didn\u2019t want to put the admin user and password into Wowza . Poking around the camera settings, I found \u201cenable RTSP connection without authentication.\u201d Good. so rtsp:\/\/vvv.xxx.yyy.zzz\/profile2\/media.smp worked sans password in VLC Player.<\/div>\n
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Then I gave that address to Wowza. Tried to look at via a web page. Video was all black all the time.<\/div>\n
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After much googling, I discovered that by default, the rtsp stream address returned a Motion-JPEG stream. VLC player confirmed this. Wowza needed an H.264 stream. Here the documentation gave a hint, and intuition provided the rest. In a nutshell, I needed to create a video profile via Setup=>Video & Audio=>Video Profile. Named it uvm, set Codec to H.264. Then back to \u00a0Setup=>System=>User . UNChecked \u201cenable RTSP connection without authentication.\u201d Created a new user \u2018xxx\u2019 and password \u2019Zzzz’, and set this user’s profile to all. My final address then:<\/div>\n
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rtsp:\/\/xxx:Zzzz@132.198.153.89\/uvm\/media.smp<\/div>\n
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Success at last<\/a><\/div>\n
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I was drafted to purchase and configure yet another IP Network Camera to document the STEM building project. I chose the Samsung SNO-6084R for $750 from B&H Photo. Samsung web site hosts a PDF version of the User Manual. At … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41826],"tags":[42758,152257],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wes","tag-boffins","tag-video-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}