Help: MeteoBridge Nano SD IP camera basics

[admin]

There is nothing to fix. "https://admin.meteobridge.com/cam/xxx/cam.jpg" and "https://admin.meteobridge.com/cam/xxx/camplus.jpg" work fine. I just wasted my time in testing your wrong claim.

Please take into account that the Meteobridge Cam feature works for tons of users fine. So telling it does not work simply means, you don't get still pictures in a suitable format out of your cam by the URL you are providing to Meteobridge. Meteobridge needs a still jpg, not any rtsp stream or other HTML wrapped stuff your browser might be fine with. How to check this? Download the result of calling the URL you use for still image grabbing to your PC and try to load with a jpg viewer on your PC. When this fails it is proven, that you don't feed a jpg as you might have thought.

When you do some research regarding the WU camera feature you might find out that WU is not really maintaining that and that it does not work for very many users, which is why most have stepped away from it. wxforum.net has a section on it, where you can find many user reports. There is nothing Meteobridge can do about it.

[ac2ev]

OK, settle down (yeah that never works). </attempt at humor>

I tried the http://admin.meteobridge.com/<camera id>/camplus.jpg from home, work, and cellular (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IOS, ChromeOS, Linux, Windows 10, Dillo, I might have a XP machine laying around).

With http://admin.meteobridge.com/<camera id>/camplus.jpg
I don't get an image. I get nothing (wireframe image placeholder) or a "connection was reset" message. Only* when I change it to http://configure.meteobridge.com/<camera id>/camplus.jpg
It works.
cam.jpg give me the raw image from camera.
camplus.jpg gives me the the image with the correct overlay text.

If WU camera doesn't work that's fine but there's 2 issues going on here.

*Here's something interesting:
If I put in anything other than admin.meteobridge.com it works.
I tried http://image.meteobridge.com/cam/<camera ID>/camplus.jpg and that resolved to the image correctly.
http://purplemonkeydishwasher.meteobridge.com/cam/<camera ID>/camplus.jpg works

Dillo didn't work either. What else is interesting if I try:
wget http://admin.meteobridge.com/cam/<camera ID>/camplus.jpg I get a file named camplus.jpg that contains the following:

SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.10

wget http://image.meteobridge.com/cam/<camera ID>/camplus.jpg I get the correct image.
wget http://purplemonkeydishwasher.meteobridge.com/cam/<camera ID>/camplus.jpg I get the correct image.


So that's what I am experiencing and what I have tried. I'd like try and figure out what's going on.

I'm not a web developer. I know enough about this topic to be dangerous. I'm not an expert on it but I do try "to do my homework". If you want to contact me offline, feel free. I'd like to know what's happening here.

Other than WU camera, are there other websites I can set up to pull the camera image? If not I'll keep the camera up for my own amusement.

[admin]

I tried the http://admin.meteobridge.com/<camera id>/camplus.jpg from home, work, and cellular (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IOS, ChromeOS, Linux, Windows 10, Dillo, I might have a XP machine laying around).

With http://admin.meteobridge.com/<camera id>/camplus.jpg
I don't get an image. I get nothing (wireframe image placeholder) or a "connection was reset" message. Only* when I change it to http://configure.meteobridge.com/<camera id>/camplus.jpg
It works.
cam.jpg give me the raw image from camera.
camplus.jpg gives me the the image with the correct overlay text.

It is "https" not "http". When you click on the camera symbols at the events page the links are called with "https". Please read with more care!

[ac2ev]

I see that, thank you. Curious. Before yesterday when I clicked on the links with https: they did not work but now they do.
Not sure what changed, if anything. Most likely I was doing something else wrong (besides the https)

Now, to figure out why the weather34 weather dashboard page isn't showing the camera.

Thank you.

[ac2ev]

This is interesting. On Firefox and Chromium for Linux I did an inspect for the Meteobridge camera link and it doesn't have https:

That accounts for my confusion in this whole matter.

I'm running version
Meteobridge 5.0 (Oct 18 2020, build 3503), FW 1.4

[ac2ev]

After one of my PCs didn't access the https://admin.meteobridge.com webpage I tried accessing it and got the "connection was reset" message. So I then tried https://configure.meteobridge.com and I got a message about a bad cert and if I wanted to accept the cert. I accepted it and then both configure and admin worked.

Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for configure.meteobridge.com. The certificate is only valid for the following names: content.meteobridge.com, meteobridge.com, meteobridge.net, wiki.meteobridge.com, www.meteobridge.com, www.meteobridge.net

Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

I believe that depending on the we browser in use, the browser is trying to protect from a 'man in the middle' type of attack and this is why I was getting different results from you. Your local certificate wasn't "expired" so any meteobridge site worked. I didn't have the certificate loaded so I was not able to view the image.