[APP] Wear IP Cam Viewer - Wear OS Software and Hacking General

I've just finished my new Wear IP Camera Viewer app - find it here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.barkside.ipcam
With it you can view snapshots of your favourite public cameras, or your personal (security/baby-monitor/bird-cam) cameras, right on your Wear Watch. Other features include the ability to tap on a snapshot, and then pinch/double-tap to zoom. Also refresh a particular camera image from your watch. It works for MJPEG streams and JPEG snapshots only at the moment.
It is early days, so please let me know any issues.
Also, it is free (donations can be made within the app - if you get on well with it that is!)
Also again, if I type "Android wear IP Cam viewer" in Google Play, loads of non Android Wear IP cam apps come up - regular peeps aren't going to easily find my app! Any ideas?
Screenshots:
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Put it in the Wear store.
I can't get my watch to refresh or change cams.
Moto 360

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App updated with some fixes. Enjoy!
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it cant seem to find my foscam, easyn, or linksys cameras? and im def using the right settings from the cameras does the file path part need to be filled in?

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Oh dear that doesn't sound very good. So you can either fill out the various boxes with ip/host, Port, path, etc or you use the manual setting to manually type (or paste) the full url. Are you testing from the phone first to ensure it is correct. Do the demo cameras work?
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barkside said:
Are you testing from the phone first to ensure it is correct. Do the demo cameras work?
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Testing from phone first and it keeps saying failed to get frame grab. I am using the same credentials as my app that i have that views all my cams. I'll try to get the full url and try that later to see if that works.
Thanks.

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good apps

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barkside, great app!! i set it up to work with my foscam (a very popular webcam) so i'm going to post the details below to help others out and maybe some others can provide some input as well.
Foscam FI9821W V2 Cam on my LG G
The image above is a JPEG snapshot, but one that refreshes whenever I launch the webcam app on my watch.
Step 1 Purchase Foscam and setup on your local WiFi (not going into all the instructions, but basically its little more than giving your camera its on own IP address internally so you can see it on your local network.
Step 2 Launch the local URL, go to the your "settings" tab using IE, Firefox or Chrome and under "network" select the "port" option. Note the HTTP port, the only one you're interested in. Change it to something you like such as 8090 or 8095 or whatever and hit "save".
Step 3 Go to "basic settings", then "user accounts" and go ahead & create a "visitor" level user. You don't need or want your default admin account being the one you plug into the URL you'll ultimately put into your watch.
Step 4 Now that you have your visitor/user account, you just need to set up your virtual server/port forwarding for the IP address of your camera. Depending on the router, these settings are typically under "WAN" or "Virtual Servers" or "Port Forwarding". Its a very common feature that every router will have.
Step 5 After you've located your Virtual Server page, simply add a new "virtual server" and key in your IP cam's *LOCAL* web address. This is the same one you see at the top of your browser window in Step 3 above. Typically something like 192.168.2.210 or something. Add this IP address to the table along with the port you setup in Step 2 (8095 or whatever) and select "TCP" as the type.
Step 6You're almost done. Now you're ready to test the access to your camera on the web outside of your local WiFi. Make sure you have the NAME and PASSWORD handy for the visitor account you created.
You can do this one of 2 ways:
>> If using IP address (I don't recommend) do a 'whatismyip.com' lookup and get your 'outside facing' IP address.
>> If using a dynamic DNS (strongly recommended..i won't go into how to do this, but you should do this anyway when you set up your router) use that.
Here's an example of each type you'd want to type into your browser window VERY CAREFULLY
blah.freedomain.com = your DDNS or IP address
8095 = whatever port you are forwarding
blah = your visitor username
blah2 = your visitor password
Code:
http://blah.freedomain.com:8095/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=blah&pwd=blah2
or
Code:
http://68.43.55.698:8095/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=blah&pwd=blah2
Step 7 If you can see your webcam image in your browser window you're done! All you need to do now is to open Wear IP Cam on your phone and paste that in.
Step 8 Hit refresh on your watch and you will be able to see the updated web image on your watch each time!
Caveats
This works for the 19821W V2 and the CGI scripting language is slightly different for different foscam models. You might need to browse the Foscam site to see if the CGI code is. I can help out if needed but its really just getting the syntax down. NOTE the user is 'usr' in the code above. I was pulling my hair out for awhile because the older CGI script used 'user' and I kept misspelling it.
I haven't gotten the MJPEG working at all..in any browser. I get a broken image regardless of whether I'm internal or external. However the correct CGI to use for that (if you have better luck than me) is:
NOTE That the author says the end result is the same for MJPEG and JPEG; just a snapshot so there's no need to explore the MJPG option further unless you just want to play with it.
Example
Code:
http://blah.mydomain.com:8095/cgi-bin/CGIStream.cgi?cmd=GetMJStream&usr=blah&pwd=blah2
Of course you'll have to replace the DOMAIN, PORT, USERNAME and PASSWORD with your credentials.
Let me know if you have any questions!

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nyvram1 said:
I'll update this guide if/once I've figured out why I can't get that secondary stream working correctly.
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Great guide! Just to avoid confusion, can I reiterate that it will only ever work for snapshots of mjpeg streams, not the video stream itself. So it ends up being the same as jpeg.
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oh ok. That actually helps. I'll just stick with this version of it then. I wasn't sure if I was missing something by not seeing the MJPEG flavor. If there's no difference I probably won't pursue getting that working.
Thanks!

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After playing with this a couple days, I think what would really make it nicer is to have the option to zoom..i guess 'pinch' zoom controls dont work on a watch touchscreen, so maybe a double tap will zoom the image and you can then move it around and another double tap to zoom back out.
that would be helpful as I can't make out the timestamp in my webcam image and i'd like to know its pulling a current snapshot.
Other than that, I think the app is great for what it is does.
Nice job!

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nyvram1 said:
After playing with this a couple days, I think what would really make it nicer is to have the option to zoom..i guess 'pinch' zoom controls dont work on a watch touchscreen, so maybe a double tap will zoom the image and you can then move it around and another double tap to zoom back out.
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This is supported already. Tap on a snapshot once which opens the zoom window. Now pinch zoom and double tap zoom will work (to a point). Long press to exit.

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Really? Well dang I guess I should read the instructions.. off to try this now

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So...
I have everything working fine ON MY TABLET for a Foscam FL8910W PTZ @ 640x480...
How in the world do I get the app to show up on my Moto 360 now?
I have every other app working well, but this one doesn't seem to sync when resyncing all apps
Any help would be appreciated!

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There is nothing special with this app. I suppose you've tried the unoriginal restarting your tablet and your watch? Otherwise the only other thing is uninstalling and reinstalling the app?

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barkside said:
There is nothing special with this app. I suppose you've tried the unoriginal restarting your tablet and your watch? Otherwise the only other thing is uninstalling and reinstalling the app?
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Uninstall and reinstall just did the trick
I would mention that refreshing the image would be nice - maybe a 5/10/15/30/60 second option in setup? That would be SPANK!
Let me know what you think, otherwise, I'll report it working well with Foscam!

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Glad that worked for you. Yes auto refresh would be nice. I didn't want to complicate it too much to begin with...

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Nice app. Donation submitted. I also would like to vote for an auto-refresh enhancement. I think that would make the app perfect if it had that feature.

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thanks