Manually adding third party cameras

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David Karlsson

• December 20, 2018 16:20

Hi,

We are trying to add camera manually through the NX Server API. Our process is the following:

1. first we do a /api/manualCamera/search call to search for the available cameras.

2. we copy the process_id from the result of /api/manualCamera/search into /api/manualCamera/status?uuid=process_id  and the returning json obj tells us the information we need to add the third party camera.

3. Which we do by calling POST /api/manualCamera/add which returns statuscode 200 OK and error '0' but the newly added camera can't be seen when getting from /ec2/getCamerasEx or /ec2/getCameras, we can't see the added camera in the NX witness client either.

Added images from postman( generic request sending tool) to show the steps taken and the returned messages.

Why is the newly added camera missing, although we got the status 200 OK from the /api/manualCamera/add? Are we taking the right steps to add a manual camera? Also see attached images of the whole process.

1.) /api/manualCamera/search

2.) /api/manualCamera/status?uuid=process_id

3.) POST /api/manualCamera/add

Best Regards,

David Karlsson

CTO

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  Sergey

  • December 20, 2018 19:32

  Hi David,

  Not sure about correct POST parameters form. We are using GET request with the following request line:

  /api/manualCamera/add?url0=..&manufacturer0=...&uniqueId0=...&user=...&password=...

  Please note `0` after repeating parameters. For several cameras there will be url1, url2 and so on.

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  David Karlsson

  • January 04, 2019 15:32

  Hi Sergey,

  Thank you for the prompt answer.

  We have tried with the GET request as you mention as( attaching the cURL of our request ) and the result we get back from your server is:

  200 OK

  {
      "error": "0",
      "errorString": "",
      "reply": null
  }

  Still, we don't notice any new camera being added under our system in nxWitness UI. If we instead add the camera with the nxWitness  add device.. button we are successfull in this.

  please take a look at attached cURL, are we sending the right parameters to /api/manualCamera/add?

  

  Regards,

  David Karlsson

  CTO

  Skyresponse

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  David Karlsson

  • January 04, 2019 15:37

  Sorry nevermind Sergey found a type in the request parameter. It solved the issue.

  Regards,

  David

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