Playing with ONVIF surveillance cameras
1. Acquire RTSP streaming URL
For my camera, the Tenda CP7, the ONVIF admin account is:
- name:
admin - password:
admin123456
1.1. Simple approach
Download the Windows-only ONVIF Device Manager and login using the camera's admin account. On the live video section, you can see the RTSP URL in the form of:
rtsp://IP:PORT_NUMBER/xxx
Prepend account information to the link:
rtsp://NAME:PASSWORD@IP:PORT_NUMBER/xxx
1.2. Other possible approaches
There is a onvifviewer, able to both view the camera stream and control its motion. It does not show URL, however. But digging into the code may help.