Hi, First time poster, long time lurker. Be gentle. I inherited two SWANN PTZ netcams from a family member shortly after installing HASS AIO. I wasn’t able to find a component that could control them even though they should be similar to FOSCAM and such. So, though much research, I was able to fin…

Thanks for sharing this! Can I suggest a change in the title though; CGI control of a cam is going to be different for each vendor; different vendors use different CGI commands and even different names for their CGI. I think a clearer title might be “PTZ Control of Swann cameras using Generic IP…

Thanks! I only had Swann cameras, and I got this working by using documentation for a different generic camera. I wonder how many other cameras this would work for. Also, in my haste to anonymize this I scrubbed an important detail… should be “-u USER:PASS”, not “-u XXXXXXX” :confused:

I can confirm it will work with some models of Foscams, especially the older ones, because I am using the same commands myself. [image] Shell Command Configuration Those are the only things I can think of at the moment. That’s what I had to do to make it work when I was …

Replying in case anyone else comes across this: I discovered that these commands work for my 2015-era Insteon 75790 cameras. Thanks for the info, @Lucky_Strike !

New to Home Assistant here and I have a 75790 camera working with the generic camera integration but want to add PTZ. Can someone direct me to where I need to put these commands?

OK, I put the lnes from the original post in config.yaml and I now have switches in the Overview but they don’t do anything with my 75790. I had some difficulty with the pasted characters when I copied the config entries above, so maybe I have the format wrong? This is what I have in config.yaml for…

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rpitera (Robert Pitera) July 31, 2017, 6:19pm 4

I can confirm it will work with some models of Foscams, especially the older ones, because I am using the same commands myself.