I've created a camera tag and pointed it to my camera. the camera is configured for it's main feed to be mjpg and other feeds have been turned off. Besides my laptop with VTScada Lite for testing, there is nothing else on the network.

The camera widget remains grey. I have tried multiple ports: 80, 8080, 8000, 554 without success. Could someone provide direction on what I may be missing?

I have also used the webpage widget and can successfully get the login page for the camera, but when I login, it does not display video. Only the menu options and a black screen where the video should be.

Webview2 is installed. If I connect to the camera from outside VTScada, I can see the video without issue.

Thank you in advance. 😁

There are two initial items which come to mind. First, check if the camera's streaming server allows for viewing in an iframe. Second, check your VTScada application server list (and/or services page) to ensure that the camera service is being handled by a PC which can connect to the camera.

So definitely a camera issue. I've tried multiple viewers that use mjpeg and none of them would work. Ended up building a small app in C# that accpets rtsp h.264 and serves up multiple mjpeg feeds. That works well with the camera widget.

Is there any plan to support ONVIF for video feeds?

The Development Team is looking at broader support for more common video codecs. These are more difficult to integrate into our synchronized server architecture. The effort required is significantly more than just adding support for the codecs.

@ArghDave Im having similar issues with the camera viewer.
Since you mentioned the team is looking into it, can I STRONGLY ask that they also allow the option to view jpg and gif.

The key to the camera viewer for us here at the City is to also be able to set the update rate. In other words, in the camera properties, we have the option to set the poll rate in seconds.
This will allow all cameras that support 'snapshot' jpg mode (and many other iframe-able images with URLs).

Please let me know if you have any questions, the camera gadget can be incredibly powerful fetching radar/wind/weather/thermal camera images. Right now, it is really clamped down and limited in only accepting streams that use a ton of network bandwidth needlessly.

If you are able to make a http request for a URL and receive a JPG or GIF then I expect you could use the normal webpage widget to bring up the camera when a user navigates to a page.

I haven't tested this but an expression in the widget URL could likely get the page to refresh on a schedule (only when the page is being viewed).

If you'd like to try a silly use for this, create a Web Broser widget on a page and in the properties, set the URL to a Text expression and paste the following in there:

CONCAT("https://random-d.uk/api/randomimg?type=jpg", "&refresh=",now(10))

Note that the refresh expression only causes the URL to change (adding a variable which does nothing). This will kick VTScada to do a fresh http query and will update the image.