Advice requested: Advice: Best way to integrate PTZ ONVIF camera into Ignition 8.3 (Vision)

[paul-griffith]

I'm not really sure why/if you meant to put this in the Module Development subcategory - it doesn't sound like that's the way you're leaning.

@mjhosseinzade

I tried calling the camera’s ONVIF endpoints directly from Ignition using system.net.httpGet / httpPost, but I always get 401 Unauthorized. ONVIF requires WS-Security (UsernameToken, PasswordDigest), which is hard to implement in Ignition’s Jython scripting.

Never use system.net.httpGet/httpPost, always use system.net.httpClient.
There are some examples floating around this forum of doing digest auth via scripting, e.g:

[IGN-4258]Digest auth with httpClient

Here is an example function: def getData(client, uri, url, username, password): import hashlib import random res = client.get(url) if res.statusCode == 401: headers = res.headers digestParts = headers["www-authenticate"][0].replace("Digest ", "").split(",") digestData = {} for part in digestParts: partParts = part.strip().split("=") digestData[partParts[0]] = partParts[1].replace("\"", "") realm = digestData["realm"] charset = digestData["charset"] …

@mjhosseinzade

MongoDB snapshot/timelapse storage,

Tangential, but MongoDB seems a very strange choice for binary file storage. NoSQL gives you no benefits if you're storing well formatted binary image snapshots.