# IP Cameras recommendations

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-cameras-recommendations/57117>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 11, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-cameras-recommendations/57117 "2022-03-11T15:57:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alfred\_Thayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Alfred\_Thayer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alfred_Thayer)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-cameras-recommendations/57117/1 "2022-03-11T15:57:28Z")

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I am looking for a good quality IP PoE PTZ camera to use in Ignition using IP Camera Viewer.  
Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![josborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@josborn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/josborn)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-cameras-recommendations/57117/2 "2022-03-11T18:09:52Z")

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I like Avigilon, but there are good alternatives like Axis, Bosch, Hikvision. Keep in mind the ignition ip camera viewer cannot display RTSP, @pturmel has a module that can.

> [@Automation Professionals' Image Streamer Driver Module](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automation-professionals-image-streamer-driver-module/29371):
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> Automation Professionals is pleased to announce a Release Candidate for its new driver module, supporting the live Network Image transmission format of [Keyence CV-5000](https://www.keyence.com/products/vision/vision-sys/cv-5000/index.jsp) machine vision controllers, plus support for common Network Video streams via [OpenCV](https://opencv.org/). Stream metadata is exposed as OPC items, and the output streams are Motion JPEG. The IP Camera Viewer Component in Vision can consume these streams, making it possible to integrate IP Cameras that don't have MJPEG support or have poor support f…
