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Indian Hills High School Trout Cam

Jan 09, 2010 09:38pm Michael Michels Total Posts: 5	You have to use Quicktime to see our fish, not a web browser. I like it because we can see the fish actively swimming, the temperature of the water and the flow from the filter - all from a remote location. We lost ALL of our fish at around 5” in length last May after our chiller was inadvertently unplugged for a weekend, and this is now our new solution. It is easy for me to monitor the tank from home. Directions for Quicktime: Open Quicktime, go to FILE, then OPEN URL… and paste the link below in and it should work. If not, I can give you specific quicktime settings that should make it run. rtsp://rhsstreamit.rih.org/live/ihhs_live.sdp GOOD LUCK AND LET ME KNOW IF IT WORKS FOR YOU. Mike Michels Biology Teacher

Jan 10, 2010 10:29am Chuck Bobrowski Total Posts: 11	I tried running it from Quicktime and inserting the url. All I get is a “Negotiating” bar running back & forth. Please send the other way of accessing the webcam. I’ve been thinking about it for our school in Passaic and I’m interested in what equipment you use. We have 3 separate tanks/TIC projects running at the same time. We lost all the fish in one of them last year too.

Jan 10, 2010 12:50pm Michael Michels Total Posts: 5	Try this…. rtsp://rhsstreamit.rih.org/live/ihhs_live.sdp To fix…. Do the following: Go into your Quicktime System Prefs Go to ‘Advanced Tab’ Change Transport Setup to ‘Custom…’ Set Transport Protocol to HTTP on port 80 Due to firewall restrictions, we have to stream on port 80 instead of the usual 554. Try that out and let me know if it works. You may need to restart QT Player after you make these changes.

Jan 10, 2010 02:14pm Chuck Bobrowski Total Posts: 11	Your suggestion worked fine. No restart necessary. Curiously, even after I reset the QTplayer to the original automatic settings I was able to view your webcab. Looks good, but at that resolution I can’t read the thermometer. You are streaming more smoothly than the Bedminster school cam, but the image is kind of small. Thanks for the reply.

Jan 10, 2010 06:34pm Michael Michels Total Posts: 5	Thanks for the input. I could back up the camera and see the whole tank, but you are right- the resolution is not very good. If I keep the camera close, I can usually see fish swimming and more importantly- the temperature (sometimes it depends on the size of your QT window/ try it). I usually can read the temp ok (even if it is fuzzy) - daytime is better than night. THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST!!! Mike

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