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Significantly lower frame rate possible?

edited March 2014 in SecuritySpy
Hello Ben and crew,

I've been looking through the documentation tonight but can't find this answer. I'd like to see if there's a way to set a significantly lower frame rate for a particular camera in SS for *viewing* purposes. For recording TL, I know I can set it to grab a frame every __ seconds, but I want to slow down the frame rate for viewing.

Scenario: I am [temporarily] setting up a Foscam 8910W in a vacant house that's been broken into a lot lately. I'll be borrowing [with permission] the next door neighbor's wifi for this camera as this is the only available internet option there. The neighbor will allow me to access their router so I can configure port forwarding, giving me remote access to the camera from my SS installation at a different location across town.

I've monitored a camera at a different location before, but it's always trying to grab the highest possible frame rate from the camera for remote viewing. In this case, to be kind to the neighbor's bandwidth, I only really want/need to have SS refresh the view with one frame every few seconds or so. I don't need SS to deal with motion detection, since the 8910W sufficiently handles that through its own firmware, to send email to me when motion is detected [which I have working perfectly via gmail].

I just want SS to poll the camera at a VERY low low frame rate over the internet for time lapse purposes without pummeling the networks on both ends with an unnecessary 5-10FPS all day stream [for example]. This would even help in Remote Patrol as I only really want to view this [one frame every 3-5 seconds] rate in that app as well, just for this one camera. My other cameras at my home get a great frame rate for real time viewing and I'm very satisfied with the whole SS system overall.

Is this possible? Thanks.

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  • edited March 2014
    Well, looks like I found a solution [that was quick. haha].

    I changed the device type to Manual [instead of Foscam], then used this command in the Request box:

    /video.cgi?rate=17

    It slowed the viewing frame rate enough for it to likely use way less bandwidth, just what I need in this situation.

    Even viewing with Remote Patrol [via my SS server] is a better solution than trying to view the camera directly via its own remote IP address, again - for this situation.


    This is what I found on the internet:
    [from http://skjm.com/forum/index.php?topic=5263.0 ]

    You can adjust the frame rate of Foscam cameras by adding a parameter to the URL.

    http://x.x.x.x/video.cgi?rate=

    can be a value between 0 and 23, and each value corresponds to:
    0:maximum
    1:20 fps
    3:15 fps
    6:10 fps
    11:5 fps
    12:4 fps
    13:3 fps
    14:2 fps
    15:1 fps
    17:1 fp/2s
    19:1 fp/3s
    21:1 fp/4s
    23:1 fp/5s

    So to connect to the camera at 2 fps, you would use http://x.x.x.x/video.cgi?rate=14 … or to connect at 5 fps, you would use http://x.x.x.x/video.cgi?rate=11
  • Hi Turbo, glad to hear you found the solution to your question, and thanks for posting it!
  • Thanks and you're welcome. The camera is working perfectly with me recording it across town. The homeowner has their own login to my SS server, with a narrowed permissions scope for viewing live and archived footage for just their own cam. They love it.

    SS is awesome. Thank you so much.
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