PTZ support

[Tom Bradbury]

Just did a quick search on the forum for PTZ support and in the last two years, the developers have gone from saying that PTZ will be in future developments to saying its now not anywhere near the top of the list.  Does this mean that they are now spending all their time developing the other applications and they aren't going to spend time on iCam or they just can't get it to work so they are moving it lower down the list until it drops off?

It seems such a shame that in over 2 years that SKJM can't get PTZ on iCam given the number of cameras out there that have this functionality.  It would be the dogs wobbles to have this on an otherwise excellent bit of software.  Come on guys.

[Stefan]

We try to focus on developing features that will benefit the largest number of iCam users, and since most users don't have PTZ cameras it hasn't been a top priority.

We been working on it, though.

What camera(s) are you using with iCam?

[Tom Bradbury]

I've got two D-Link DCS-5300G cameras which are a few years old but both are PTZ so hence my bug bear.  Also got a Ycam hooked up to iCam.

[Stefan]

I've got two D-Link DCS-5300G cameras which are a few years old but both are PTZ so hence my bug bear.  Also got a Ycam hooked up to iCam.

This is another reason why PTZ was never at the top of our priority list: So many different network IP camera PTZ protocols.

From our work on iSpy Cameras we already implemented a number of the major PTZ protocols for the public cameras that are available, but those did not include AirLinks or Foscams (the two that we own) or D-Links. (They were Canons, Panasonics, etc.)

We have been working on the AirLink and Foscam PTZ protocols (because those are the cameras we have) but I am sure that there are a lot of other cameras out there that people use that are different still.