Have My clients view their cameras through company website

[sicctv 0]

Hello,

 

I want to make my clients have to visit my website and login through my website to access their DVR's to view their cameras. How do I go about doing this, if its even possible.

 

I was thinking that I need to create my own users system that they will login though and after they login it will retrieve who they are from my websites database and then redirect them to the correct page to view their cameras (id set up a dyndns site for their IP to redirect them to).

 

Or is there a better way of doing this.

 

Thanks alot!

[Soundy 1]

www.cam2life.net

[rory 0]

yes you can do this, though depends on the DVR whether or not it uses activeX which most do, and then they HAVE to use IE (or an IE plugin). EG without the login, for Geo:

http://www.bahamassecurity.com/webcam/

[sicctv 0]

I dont really understand. i tried searching for this on the forums do you know of any where this is explained better or can you direct me somewhere else that will have more information. what is something like this called?

[rory 0]

Ok simply:

 

1-You create a database and add client information to it: username, login pass, site types, site ips.

2-You create a dynamic web page for each site type: this could include things like axis IP video using javascript, geovision using activeX with a mixture of vbscript and javascript (eg, my previous example), geovision using quicktime, a single custom made activeX for specific DVRs, etc

3-When the user logs into a page on your site it shows list of sites and they select one, that then opens the specific page for that site.

 

Here is an example for Axis:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=23345&p=139524

[sicctv 0]

Beautiful thank you. i was thinking of going directly into my dvr and pulling off the web data that it uses and just modifying it into my website. would that be possible, to get their webpage files off of the dvr?

[rory 0]

Basically yes. Its most likely an ActiveX but it really depends as not all use a single ActiveX now, some may have the entire page wrapped into a single activeX meaning no customization can be done - though they might also have a single activeX available in an SDK download (from the manufacturer).

 

View the page source when you connect to the DVR and look for an OCX or CAB (cab contains the files needed to install/register it and its dependencies). Then need to download that. You could then basically just dump that into a blank webpage and using their source code as an example create your own. Or just save the page from the DVR and look for anything resembling and IP, user, pass etc and change that - it could be a daunting task depending on the DVR, best to first tell us the DVR and or send a link to a webpage for it.

[sicctv 0]

Thanks alot. I am working with Zmodo DVR's right now.

[sicctv 0]

which is activex