so I got the cheap chinese camera and could connect to it as a wifi

[David Fletcher]

On Mon, 2023-01-23 at 01:28 +0000, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> Any siggestions?

I purposely bought a PoE ony model, a Reolink one, but here is what I
do:-

Set the camera to a fixed IP address

Install motion from the Ubuntu repository

In /etc/motion/motion.conf
set something like:-
# The full URL of the network camera stream.
# ; netcam_url value
netcam_url rtsp://192.168.2.151
netcam_userpass admin:passcode

Apparently rtsp specifies a protocol supported by almost all cameras.

No reason you can't do the same with WiFi.

I've not investigated running it over IPv6. Other things in here such
as my Analog Telephone Interface work fine with IPv6 but as they say,
"if it ain't broke don't fix it".

Hope this helps you.

Dave