PVC2300 - Alternative to Motion Detection Event / FTP Upload

Hi Cisco Community,
My apologies if I am not posting this in the correct section / allowed to post here.
I've got a PVC2300 mounted inside a pelco enclosure that is positioned 6 meters high. Sometimes the motion detection event doesn't work to well (this is due to the fact that its in an enclosure and pointed out towards the ocean at a beach location).
Also the motion detection event is pretty much useless at night without surrounding illumination.
In Australia we also have severe lack of broadband speed and also download allowance, therefore it is not practical to broadcast streaming video (we would get charged excessive fees for exceeding download quotas and only one person could view the camera at any one time).
I've written a custom windows service that reads the PVC2300's MJPEG stream over http at a specified interval and saves a single .JPG file in which the windows service uploads the .JPG file to a specified website. This means that you will always get an updated image from the camera every 5 minutes, rather than based on motion detection. It would have been nice if cisco / linksys implemented this within the camera's firmware (maybe in a future version?).
Anyway, communities share things with each other, so i've made the software freely available to anyone who wishes to use it. I would appreciate any feedback from Cisco / Linksys.
http://www.airbiscuit.com.au/pvc2300-service.html - PVC2300 Windows Service
http://www.airbiscuit.com.au/camera.aspx - The actual PVC2300 in operation
Regards,
David Zielinski

You came to the right place and thats a very cool post IMO.
First, thanks for using Cisco Small Business products and you can look forward enhancements and options in our line, of course. I think I noticed your other post mentioning you are in Australia? We have a few really top BU folks (TMEs and Biz Dev) down under and they are very active in the BU solutions area for Small Business. Do you know Leah Davis and Dave Harper (they are Participants on this community as well)?
In any event, I think compressed streaming is a very valid design idea and we are actually looking at similar partners in the US experimenting with the same. In one Partners case he has a lightweight application (java) that runs on your mobile and allows all the mobile streams to come compressed from a server farm.
Typical use case is a Day Care where 15 parents want to watch the same camera, and the compression benefit becomes crucial in scale. But your case is a financial one (therefore good too) where you would have to pay for streaming video.
While we dont offer this today (the external managed service that is), I am sure you have played with the camera GUI and realize you can try some of the following to reduce bandwidth
1- lower quality of video (resolution, FPS, illuminate Audio, etc)
2- reduce motion detection size (seconds)
3- Purchase a local NSS2100 or NSS3x00 to store High Quality video on the LAN and only alert for motion via email (not realy friendly for remote monitoring I admit).
For sensitivity in an enclosure, have you played with Sensitivity settings thresholds in the Camera GUI under motion detection?
For night illumination without an external IR Illuminator, have you tried the 'night schedule', which activates (or deactivates) the IR Cut Filter?
For the periodic updates, I'll let Davin Oishi comment as he is about ready to announce the PVC300 and I know it offers a browser based periodic refresh and I am not sure how far he has extended that to an API for external access.....
Thanks for your post
Steve DiStefano
Systems Engineer in the US field channel
RTP, N.C.

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/*  <pre> */
* File: FTPConnection.java
* Author: Bret Taylor <[email protected]>
* URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~bstaylor/cs/ftpconnection/FTPConnection.java.shtml
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 * Wrapper for the commands <code>rnfr [oldName]</code> and <code>rnto
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 * Wrapper for the command <code>rmd [directory]</code>.
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 * Wrapper for the command <code>dele [fileName]</code>.
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 throws IOException
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 try {
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 return -1L;
 * Wrapper for the command <code>retr [fileName]</code>.
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 * Wrapper for the command <code>retr [serverPath]</code>. The local file
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 public boolean downloadFile(String serverPath, String localPath)
 throws IOException
 return readDataToFile("retr " + serverPath, localPath);
 * Wrapper for the command <code>stor [fileName]</code>.
 public boolean uploadFile(String fileName)
 throws IOException
 return writeDataFromFile("stor " + fileName, fileName);
 * Wrapper for the command <code>stor [localPath]</code>. The server file
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 public boolean uploadFile(String serverPath, String localPath)
 throws IOException
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 * lets clients resume interrupted uploads or downloads.
 public void setRestartPoint(int point)
 restartPoint = point;
 debugPrint("Restart noted");
 * Gets server reply code from the control port after an ftp command has
 * been executed. It knows the last line of the response because it begins
 * with a 3 digit number and a space, (a dash instead of a space would be a
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 private int getServerReply()
 throws IOException
 return Integer.parseInt(getFullServerReply().substring(0, 3));
 * Gets server reply string from the control port after an ftp command has
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 private String getFullServerReply()
 throws IOException
 String reply;
 do {
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 Character.isDigit(reply.charAt(1)) &&
 Character.isDigit(reply.charAt(2)) &&
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 private String getFullServerReply(StringBuffer fullReply)
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 String reply;
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 reply = inputStream.readLine();
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 } while(!(Character.isDigit(reply.charAt(0)) &&
 Character.isDigit(reply.charAt(1)) &&
 Character.isDigit(reply.charAt(2)) &&
 reply.charAt(3) == ' '));
 // remove any trailing line terminators from the fullReply
 if (fullReply.length() > 0)
 fullReply.setLength(fullReply.length() - lineTerm.length());
 return reply;
 * Added by Julian: Gets a list of files in the current directory.
 public String listFiles()
 throws IOException
 return listFiles("");
 * Added by Julian: Gets a list of files in either the current
 * directory, or one specified as a parameter. The 'params' parameter
 * can be either a directory name, a file mask, or both (such as
 * '/DirName/*.txt').
 public String listFiles(String params)
 throws IOException
 StringBuffer files = new StringBuffer();
 StringBuffer dirs = new StringBuffer();
 if (!getAndParseDirList(params, files, dirs))
 debugPrint("Error getting file list");
 return files.toString();
 * Added by Julian: Gets a list of subdirectories in the current directory.
 public String listSubdirectories()
 throws IOException
 return listSubdirectories("");
 * Added by Julian: Gets a list of subdirectories in either the current
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 * can be either a directory name, a name mask, or both (such as
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 public String listSubdirectories(String params)
 throws IOException
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 String sString;
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 lString = lList.nextToken();
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addrshorts[i] += 256;
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ok i tried explaining th eproblem in the previous post, but i apologize if my explanation was poor. anyways, i tried to look into it further by doing a printStackTrace() and believe it may be a read error. here is my new updated snippet, and also a link to a screenshot ([click here for screenshot|http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture4qr0.png]) of what the error looks like on my end. it seems like a socket is not being read, or maybe it is initialized properly. Again I apologize if my problem is vague, but I do appreciate your input. thanks.
updated code snippet
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 info+="Trace: "+sw+"\n";
 try { ftp.disconnect(); statusLabel.setText("Status: disconnected.");} catch(Exception e2) {};
 else
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 info+="could not login";
 catch (Exception e)
 StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
 PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
 e.printStackTrace(pw);
 pw.close();
 info+="Error: "+e.getMessage()+"\n";
 info+="Trace: "+sw+"\n";
 try { ftp.disconnect(); statusLabel.setText("Status: disconnected.");} catch(Exception e2) {};
 errorLabel.setText("ERROR:"+info);
 JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, info, "test", JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
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