Timelapse with EDIMAX IC-5150 not working

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• Repetier

  January 2019

  In printer configuration you need to check if you see in webcam section the static and motion mjpg. If you don't see them there timelapse will not work. A typical error I often see is that users enter the url where the image appears, but you need the url of the image it self. It is fairly easy to get if you right click on the image in chrome you can also copy the url of the image, which is what you need.
  
  If that works timelapse will store pictures. So even without ffmpeg you would at least see the pictures. With ffmpeg it will get converted into a mp4 video.
• MaXOR

  January 2019 edited January 2019

  Thank you very much for fast feedback ! I double checked again everything what you recomended me,but no success.
  Everything was okay and preview of static and dynamic worked also, but  timelapse was not working.
  I did some more research and found out that the problem is that I am using the password protected access.
  The link to my static source seems like this:
  http://user:password@192.168.1.20/snapshot.jpg?user=user&pwd=password
  In this case Repetier shows the preview but does not generate any timelapse, because it does not have any captured stills.
  I decided to activate the anonymous access for testing purposes and....BINGO...the timelapse started to work.
  So...the resume seems to be, that Repetier has some problem when using password protected access to the camera.
  I also tried to search something in the Repetier manual, if there is something meant about NOT using the password protected access and found nothing.So,I suspect,that it is a bug.The strange thing is,that in settings I see the preview, but no stills are captured when using NON-anonymous access.
  I don think that using anonymous access is  the solution, it is just workaround, because it would be very useful to use the password protected access.
  Please, let me know your opinion.
  Best regards
  Martin
• Repetier

  January 2019

  You are right. The timelapse function uses it's own version to grab picture and that was not updated to use the user:password trick. Will fix this for next update.
  
  Your examples has it double - the problem is only with the user:password@ variant so you can try if the other one alone works (?user=use&pwd=password). My IP webcam supports both.
• MaXOR

  January 2019

  Hello,thank you again for your feedback. I really appreciate it !
  To your note about the syntax for this camera (doubled usr/pass)  - unfortunately the format is correct.
  For this type it really should be doubled like in this example.
  
  http://user:password@192.168.1.20/snapshot.jpg?user=user&pwd=password
  
  No other variants are accepted and if there is only part of this code, then manual entering usr/pass is required.
  I tried these variants with no success...
  http://user:password@192.168.1.20/snapshot.jpg - NOT ACCEPTED
  http://192.168.1.20/snapshot.jpg?user=user&pwd=password - NOT ACCEPTED
  
  Any other ideas?
  Best regards
  Martin
   P.S. The syntax generator for cameras is available here:
  For EDIMAX brand - https://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=Edimax#
  The other brands - https://www.ispyconnect.com/sources.aspx
  Very useful resource for the research...
• Repetier

  January 2019

  No, but next release is nearly finished and there my solution with password hopefully works.
  
  Link is really good if I someone does not know the link.