Display Live feed in Ignition Perspective

[MOHAMMED_MUSAMMIL]

Hi everyone,
I have one doubt regarding displaying live camera feed in Ignition Perspective.

I am using a third-party IP camera, and both the camera and the Ignition Gateway are on the same network. I tried to show the live feed in a Perspective Video Player component by setting the camera stream URL in the Source Path property. However, I am getting an error and the video is not displaying.

Could anyone guide me on the correct way to configure the video stream in Ignition?

[Matrix_Engineering]

Display IP Camera Feed

Hi everyone, I have one doubt regarding displaying live camera feed in Ignition Perspective. I am using a third-party IP camera, and both the camera and the Ignition Gateway are on the same network. I tried to show the live feed in a Perspective Video Player component by setting the camera stream URL in the Source Path property. However, I am getting an error and the video is not displaying. Could anyone guide me on the correct way to configure the video stream in Ignition?

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[dillon]

1. Sanity check that the given url works in the web browser first (happens)
2. Does the codec used belong in this list? Media | JxBrowser

[MOHAMMED_MUSAMMIL]

http://admin:admin123@192.168.5.190/ipcam/mjpeg.cgi

“http://admin:admin123@192.168.5.190/ipcam/mjpeg.cgi”
This is my camera stream URL and it works in my browser.
But when I paste the same URL into the Ignition Perspective Video Player as the source path, it shows the error “File not valid.”
My camera is Milesight and the video codec is H.264.
Please help me to display the live video in Perspective.

[Matrix_Engineering]

Did you tick “Live Feed: True”?

[MOHAMMED_MUSAMMIL]

Yes sir

[pturmel]

Test your Perspective video component in an actual client session in your browser. It is likely your stream has an unsupported codec for the designer. (Same with Workstation.)

[MOHAMMED_MUSAMMIL]

I tested the stream in a real Perspective client session while running Ignition in free trial mode on localhost. The Video Player component is showing an invalid stream error. This issue is not because I'm on localhost; it's because the stream format (codec) is not supported by the Perspective Video Player

[Matrix_Engineering]

@MOHAMMED_MUSAMMIL

the stream format (codec) is not supported

[Matrix_Engineering]

RTSP Support on Video player component

If you’re using Perspective, you actually have support for whatever streams the browser supports. H.264 and WebM should both have good support in most browsers. I’d use one of those streams. Most webcams at least provide an H.264 stream these days. https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Perspective+-+Video+Player RTSP is a completely non-web protocol, so if you need to connect with one of those streams, using Phil’s module or a separate converter is still the way to go.

[MOHAMMED_MUSAMMIL]

Is it possible to include the username and password directly in the URL, like http://admin:admin123@192.168.5.190/ipcam/mjpeg.cgi, for an Ignition Perspective video stream? I know that Perspective won’t load streams with credentials in the URL, but is there any workaround or supported method to pass authentication this way? My camera is using H.264 codec only.

[Matrix_Engineering]

Yes

View Local Camera as Live Feed in Video Player component in Perspective

If you don't need high frame rate, something like 1fps or so (yes 1...not a typo), you could just use the Perspective Video Player component to capture the still images from the camera (you will have to figure out the URL for your specific camera brand). For example, I did a test using an Amcrest IP camera and the source parameter used a binding expression to update/refresh the image that had the following: "http://<camperaIPAddress>/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi?user=<username>&password=<password>&t="…

[MOHAMMED_MUSAMMIL]

Thanks