regular ip camera

[karpa]

Can i use a regular ip camera with labview..?  

 i have a camera at 192.168.2.2:8080 can i stream video to labview for proccesing..? 

 if yes, how..?

 Thanks..

[BCho]

Hey Karpa,

Check out this Article for a little information regarding what cameras are supported by National Instruments Software. As of NI IMAQdx 3.5 (Vision Acquisition Software Nov. 2009), IP cameras from Basler and Axis are supported. If you have one of these cameras, you can use NI IMAQdx to acquire from them from within LabVIEW. Then, if you are looking to do some post acquisition processing of that image, you can use the NI Vision Development Module to do this post processing. Both the Vision Acquisition Software (IMAQdx) and NI Vision Development Modules ship with a lot of examples that could get you started acquiring and processing images from your camera (if it is supported) from within LabVIEW.

[karpa]

i have install the software you mention but i cant use the ip camera with the mentioned IP (192.168.2.2:8080) 

from the article it seems that i CAN'T use any ip camera i want.

the video streams seems to be a jpeg image that updates regularly.

can i read this image and proccess it?

this is the html file..

[BCho]

Hey Karpa,

As the article mentions, you can use Basler and Axis ip cameras. Unfortunately, this does limit the selection of IP cameras you can use with the IMAQdx driver. So, if your IP camera is not one of these, you may have trouble acquiring from it because it is not supported. Also, I am not sure what camera you are working with. The IP address is something that is dependent on the location of the camera and not the actual model. Do you know what model IP camera you are using?

In terms of the video stream from your camera. I am not sure what to make of the html file that you mentioned. If you are able to acquire and image with your camera and save it to disk as a jpeg, then you can certainly use LabVIEW to open that jpeg and do normal Vision Analysis on that image.