Hi, community.
Thanks for this post. It've been really helpful.
Here is my story.
I was looking for cheap NVR that I can mostly control remotely from my Android through my 4G plan.
So of course I got this Super Mini NVR. My version is ESCAM K108 which I think it should be called SCAM... really.
So I happen to get it to work with my IP cameras over ONVIF after an hour or two.
I got the Web Server public already (I got the ISP, port forwarding done already)
But I just cannot get the streams anywhere somehow.
There is this ESCAM Eye android app but it only works locally (perhaps an OpenVPN can work here but that was too complicated, it didn't work and I quit that)
So I was trying to get the RTSP streams out of the NVR through my public (just like you would do with a legacy DVR which was quite easier)...
I was not able to do that so for some reason, I cannot get the streams with RTSP out of the NVR.
It promised easy remote access over Android. Not so far easy at all... Most likely impossible. I got the Web portal to work though but I cannot be on a desktop. I need a mobile solution.
I thought it might be a bug, so I was like googling and found that this SCAM box is just a cheap copy of the OG, which seems to be the Xvision XRN0808E (correct me if I'm wrong).
I was thinking that if they are the same chipset, I don't think it might be a reason why I should not try to install its firmware with the upgrade tools.
I did with some struggles (I thought I bricked it but then I used the 3520d_U+Disk+Boot+Recovery+Files file with the XRN0808_Firmware_v4.0_20141009 files and I got it to work).
Now I have my ESCAM K108 running the Xvision XRN0808E firmware.
I thought that was gonna do it and then I realized... Xvision guys somehow has not open the RTSP port on this box. I don't even see the configuration on the Network Setting to change the RTSP port (on the ESCAM, I got that at least there in the configs. I now see some Multicast ports that were not there before on the ESCAM firmware, but I lost the RTSP port). It does not seem to be open on my public address anymore (with the ESCAM it was) which is a bad sign.
I tried to contact the ESCAM guys but well, you know how these chinese not good support companies are. Who knows who is behind those chats...
So I was wondering...
* Has anybody have been able to get this to work on an Android?
* Does anyone has the original ESCAM firmware for the K108 somewhere? (I don't even know how to dump that of the box and there is nothing on the Internet, so I didn't even bother to do that).
Any ideas?
Thanks for your time. (sorry for the long post)
Kindly,
- JJ