IP Address does not show up to bind to ip for camera

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merlin02131

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Hi Folks

New to OBS ( About 6 months now ) but absolutely love this program !

We like it so much that Our Church is now expanding to Ip cameras etc.
Testing out some stuff like video , audio , and bind to ip address and audio

3 issues I found :

1. Grandstream or maybe any other IP Camera : I set up a pwd in the camera to Maxum23!@ . It rejected this as unauthorized . I set it to admin and it accepts this password . Are the passwords restricted to certain characters ? Searched the forum but could not find a definitive answer on that !

2. Under settings/advanced the ip address of my ip camera does not show up .
In a test network with my pc via my lab wireless router to the .2 subnet , I can access all of my addresses like my 192.168.2.0 subnet .
All network traffic now goes out the .2 subnet and no issues accessing anything !
Somehow under bind to addresses , OBS sees in my wifi2 network an IPV6 address and my pc IPv4 address but not the camera ip address ( 192.168.2.22 )

3. Trying to stream audio but I cannot seem to get the audio from the camera or my desktop to play
Working on this now as I have no idea why not . It was working when I initially set up OBS but I lost it

Any help would be appreciated

Thx folks

Regards

Rich
 
Password character restrictions depend on Camera, then the software accessing the camera. either can have its own restrictions
OBs doesn't natively (that I'm aware) support IP cameras. You can use NDI plug-in, or other software to access the camera, and make that available to OBS. Some folks use HTTP browser interface pointing to camera URL, but that is NOT recommended typically for a quality video stream. Windows recently offered a native connectivity option, but then excluded passwords as an option (silly M$)... anyway

- so assuming IP based camera, the question for you (and not really the expertise of an OBS support forum, but maybe someone here will know) is EXACTLY which camera and camera software interface are you using?
Ideally, you'd know the technical specs of your IP camera, and which protocol it uses for maximum resolution (and you aren't using a cheap 15fps security camera). The situation is that there are a number of ways of doing this, it isn't plug and play (sort of) like USB [which has all its own complications, but is orders of magnitude less complicated for typical user compared to an IP camera
Unless yours is an NDI camera, you are most likely going to have to set up the camera connection outside of OBS (or use an appropriate plug-in) [again I'm assuming trying to get a decent signal so not using the HTML option]. I suspect this is the step you missed and why you can't 'see' the camera as a source in OBS

Binding IP address is something we do in the datacenter with multiple IPs per NIC. It is NOT something you are going to be doing at church in this scenario for streaming. By default, Windows 10 now enables IPv6. Standard security recommendation is to turn off software/interfaces you aren't using. But leaving IPv6 on usually isn't a problem (there have been issues, but none likely to apply to your situation at this point)

RE: Audio [I suspect Adv Audio Property of Monitor vs Output has been changed/adjusted]
 
Lawrence_SoCal said:
Password character restrictions depend on Camera, then the software accessing the camera. either can have its own restrictions
OBs doesn't natively (that I'm aware) support IP cameras. You can use NDI plug-in, or other software to access the camera, and make that available to OBS. Some folks use HTTP browser interface pointing to camera URL, but that is NOT recommended typically for a quality video stream. Windows recently offered a native connectivity option, but then excluded passwords as an option (silly M$)... anyway

- so assuming IP based camera, the question for you (and not really the expertise of an OBS support forum, but maybe someone here will know) is EXACTLY which camera and camera software interface are you using?
Ideally, you'd know the technical specs of your IP camera, and which protocol it uses for maximum resolution (and you aren't using a cheap 15fps security camera). The situation is that there are a number of ways of doing this, it isn't plug and play (sort of) like USB [which has all its own complications, but is orders of magnitude less complicated for typical user compared to an IP camera
Unless yours is an NDI camera, you are most likely going to have to set up the camera connection outside of OBS (or use an appropriate plug-in) [again I'm assuming trying to get a decent signal so not using the HTML option]. I suspect this is the step you missed and why you can't 'see' the camera as a source in OBS

Binding IP address is something we do in the datacenter with multiple IPs per NIC. It is NOT something you are going to be doing at church in this scenario for streaming. By default, Windows 10 now enables IPv6. Standard security recommendation is to turn off software/interfaces you aren't using. But leaving IPv6 on usually isn't a problem (there have been issues, but none likely to apply to your situation at this point)

RE: Audio [I suspect Adv Audio Property of Monitor vs Output has been changed/adjusted]
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Hi and Thx for the detailed reply !

GSC3615 Grandstream camera
Windows 10 Pro latest with updates etc.
HP desktop i5 processor with 16 gig of memory
Netgear off the shelf router AC1750 ( 6400 V2 ) lab backup connected via wifi

Temporarily : We are using a hack set up right now with a camera attached to a laptop via HDMI and Elgato 4K adapter to a Cannon video camera . We will be changing this out hence where we are right now !

This set up worked during covid but now we need to build out a permanent solution !

Testing OBS and IP Cameras for the Church :

I am using a Grandstream GSC3615 IP Camera as a test in my lab . What I found was that OBS or the camera did not like the password , Maxum23!@ characters ( Still investigating ) . I removed the pwd and replaced with admin for testing thus allowing the camera to operate the stream . My testing is proving that the stream to YouTube currently is satisfactory . Stream lag is an interesting issue up to approx . 8 to 10 seconds to OBS . So far acceptable watching it on YouTube and I will see if I can improve on this ( Make some changes to the stream ) as we continue testing . My Company installs VOIP , Networking and Security Cameras and have been performing in house testing on our sites prior to deployment ( We use Blue Iris software for these ) . I set the camera to 720 for testing with 30 frames per second and will bump it up after I resolve the issues mentioned . I have not yet looked into any other camera setting changes as I am confident it is stable now streaming .

Thx for explaining the ip issue as I understand what it is for now . I'll leave the IP 6 allowed for now as it I believe it is not creating any sort of issues also !I have used any sort of plug ins yet as I have not fond it necessary but will look into this and read up on your info which I really appreciate ! Some great info and I will definitely read up on these articles !!

I'll post more details in re to settings after I finish up testing


Thank You again and appreciate the valuable info !

Regards

Rich
 
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