Help Required to Find a Good PC Program to View CCTV Cameras Remotely

PLA74 on 19/07/2017 - 12:46

Hello,

Need some help finding a good program for my computer so that I can remotely view my CCTV cameras. Currently I'm only able to view it on my smartphone via a few apps such as nViewerLite, iDVR-PRO Viewer, EH Series DVR Viewer. I'd like to view it on my PC instead of just on my smartphone via the apps. Hence trying to find an equvivalent of the smartphone apps for my PC.

I've looked around online but could not really find anything so thought of reaching out to the OzBargain community here.

Thank you in advance…

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  • Javelin on 19/07/2017 - 13:28
    +1

    Tinycam Pro for Android. Blueiris is good aswell but requires more setup, hardware (CPU) and subscription.

    • ESEMCE on 19/07/2017 - 13:50

      TinyCam in a Virtual Machine running Android?

    • Javelin on 19/07/2017 - 13:54
      +1

      IP CENTCOM is okayish from Windows Store as well.

  • scrimshaw on 19/07/2017 - 13:54
    +2

    https://github.com/moeiscool/Shinobi
    http://shinobi.video/gallery
    PC (note: does not run natively. May be hard to install) Mac, Linux

    https://www.kerberos.io/
    Linux only.

    • Javelin on 19/07/2017 - 13:56

      Shinobi Looks good never heard of it, thanks scrimshaw.

  • PLA74 on 19/07/2017 - 14:05

    Thankk Javelin & scrimshaw! I managed to get it working via a free program for Windows called iDVR-PRO-CMS.

  • daewoo on 19/07/2017 - 14:09
    +1

    Blue Iris (non-free) is awesome, especially with their camera support.

  • harrywwc on 19/07/2017 - 14:57

    you will probably find that the camera(s) stream to RTSP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Streaming_Protocol) format - so, you should be able to use VLC (media / open network stream… - enter rtsp://<ipaddress-of-camera>) to watch the stream.
    Unfortunately VLC on Android barfs on this :(

    • Diji1 on 19/07/2017 - 16:11
      -1

      VLC on PC is awful as well.

    • PLA74 on 19/07/2017 - 16:18

      Thanks harrywwc. Yes they do stream to RSTP protocol also and I've got DDNS setup on my my WAN IP (and the necessary ports NAT'D to the ip of the dvr on my router and ports opened on the firewall). Will give VLC on my pc a go as well.

      Pretty happy with the idvr pro cms software also!

  • robertbruce on 20/07/2017 - 13:12

    ZoneMinder. There are some live disks around with it preinstalled or run on a headless linux install is best….

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