Webcam Remote Recording with Vitamin D and Asgari UIR

Do you want to record video from your Asgari UIR on a Windows machine?

Background

You have bought an Asgari UIR webcam and you have set it up and you can log in via the web interface to view the camera live. This is all good and works perfectly fine. Now you decide that you want to record the stream and make sure that you want to be notified every time there is movement in the video. The web interface doesn't have this capability but Asgari have a solution on the support section of their webpage an the solution is to use the  program Vitamin D.

I couldn't find any instructions for how to properly set it up so I decided to make this blog post to be the missing manual.

How to set it all up

1. Download the software.
Asgari supplies this link to the Vitamin D software on their support page. This guide is based on that version(1.4.2) of Vitamin D.

2. Install the software
Run the downloaded vitamind.exe and pick all the default options.

3. Set  up the Camera
Start the Vitamin D and click the "Add Camera..." option in the Tools menu.

Make sure the setting are like above and click next.

Chose the third option since the camera will not show up since it is not on your local network.
Click next.

Put the public IP of  the camera in.
Pick the port you selected in the web interface settings.
Here is the  important part set the Stream path to videostream.cgi.
If you have set up authentication for your camera  you need to put in the username and password.
Click next

Wait a little while and the camera picture should show up.

That's it! Now you can record the camera and set up rules for the motion detection. That is outside the scope of this blog post. Details about how to use Vitamin D can be found on their support webpage.

I have found this solution to be pretty stable even over a 3g connection. It is a great solution if you want to record and later on scan through the times when there was any motion in the picture.

Have fun!