PLEASE! Can we have manual add/delete/change of cameras?

[R Spivack]

Create an "advanced" mode if you need to hide it, but getting really tired of the "looking for cameras", "disabled", "delete disabled" circus routine.

Just let me add a camera by inputing the IP address and camera type from a pull-down.

Creating DHCP address reservation so cameras don't "move" is probably child's play for just about everyone able to use Camect level of product.

Added bonus if you add the ability to directly take a network stream URL that works in VLC app with just a manual copy/paste into Camect setup and you parse it into whatever you need internally.

[Arup Mukherjee]

You can already add a camera manually using a stream url that works with VLC. 

         hub settings > devices > add camera .... Set the type to "Stream URL" and put in the RTSP url. 

As you noted, you will have to make sure the IP address of any manually-added camera does not change. 

Re: Automatically detected cameras --  Are you having the problem because you keep temporarily adding and removing cameras from your network, or are you deleting cameras that are permanently connected but simply should not be in Camect? 

If there's a camera on your network that should not be in Camect, disable it but do not delete it as long as it's connected to your network. If you delete it it will come back the next time the network is scanned .... Disabling is how you tell Camect to ignore a device and leave it untouched. 

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[Mike]

I have been waiting to get this feature forever.  Not sure why we can not have this as it is one of my biggest issues with camect and one of the reasons I don't recommend it as much to others?

I have a decent amount of camera's and things change,  I will move a camera to a different area requiring an ip change,  I have had to replace my DHCP server losing some of my reservations.   Forced password changes from manufacturer's firmware updates.  Forced IP changes for camera systems for relaying RTSP stream for cameras that don't support RTSP.  etc...... 

It would save me so much time being able to update the IP, URL, username and password.   User password is shown but always ghostbustered out. 

I have other integrations that rely on these cameras which have to be redone and reprogrammed because of a simple ip change which now it is an all-new camera.

Thanks

Mike

[Arup Mukherjee]

The original message was about adding a camera by IP (which we can do) ... i.e. but, as you said, we do not allow you to change the IP of a camera. 

Internally, the system needs some kind of id to use to track a camera. When a camera is found automatically by scanning the network, that id is the mac address of the camera, and it can persist across IP changes. If you add a camera manually by IP, the IP address is the only piece of information we have to track the camera internally -- so if it changes we're fundamentally going to treat it as a different camera. 

We might eventually allow you to do something like clone a camera and edit its parameters such as IP address, saving much of the repeated work when an IP changes, but the result would still be a "new" camera as far as the system is concerned. 

You didn't mention why the automatic network scan does not work for you, but you cannot use it and if you're spending a lot of time redoing things due to IP address changes, please consider configuring your DHCP server to always assign the same IP address to each of your cameras. That will be less painful than having to update things in Camect every time there are changes. 

Re: password changes ... You can change the username and password for a camera, even a manually added one, if the camera correctly indicates that the password is incorrect when it's incorrect. The password fields are disabled unless the camera is actually saying that the password is wrong. More camera manufacturers do manage to return the correct error code when a password is wrong although occasionally you'll find cameras that don't. 

[Picklepot]

Along these same lines...we have a device which was identified by CAMECT as a camera, but it is not...and another camera device which changed IP address and will never show up as that old IP address again.  I need to be able to delete these, and not have them show up anywhere.  Please!

[David]

I agree with this. There should be some type of camera list where it's easy to edit username/pass and URL. It was frustrating setting up wyze cam with RTSP firmware as if you didn't put the correct URL in it was not able to be edited later with only option to delete and re-add camera. Same when changing the IP address.

I understand that it is cleaner to have everything uneditable after adding, but to be unable to change simple options after adding is annoying. This was one of the biggest annoyances when I recently setup camect for my parents house.

Can the advanced options let us edit individual camera's settings? 

--david