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layout: wiki
title: UbiquitiAircam
updated: 2012-08-11 11:02
author: rick
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---

![two_aircams_small.jpg](attachments/two_aircams_small.jpg)
The new Ubiquiti Aircam is an great and cheap IP webcam.

## Quirks

- As in 1.13 do not issue PAUSE on the RTSP as it causes the stream to crash.
- If you have DHCP running it will get an automatic IP assigned. 

## Single Snapshot

You can get an single snapshot using the HTTP or using the RTSP:
HTTP:

```sh
$ curl -c /tmp/cookies.txt <http://ubnt/login.cgi> && curl -o snapshot.jpg -LH 'Expect:' -b /tmp/cookies.txt  -F username=ubnt -F password=ubnt -F uri=/snapshot.cgi  <http://ubnt/login.cgi>
```
RTSP:

```sh
$ ffmpeg -i rtsp://ubnt/live/ch00_0 -frames 1 snapshot.jpg
```

## Pro Series?

Looking at the firmware there are a whole bunch of features which I cannot find at my normal AirCam so I guess they will show up in the pro series:

- SD Card Support:

```
AirCam.v1.1.3# strings /bin/ubnt-streamer  | grep -i Record
Recording stopped
SD card is full, can not record!%s
Recording started to %s
```

- Motion Detection

```
AirCam.v1.1.3# strings /bin/ubnt-streamer  | grep -i motion
/var/run/motion_event
/var/run/motion_eventtmp
Motion detection enabled for %d:%d (%dx%d@%d.%d, threshold %d)
```

- Audio Support

```
AirCam.v1.1.3# strings /bin/ubnt-streamer  | grep -i 'audio input'
Audio input %d: enabled, mixer %d, at %d sampling rate, %d channel(s), encoder type %d set to bitrate %d

```

## Motion Support

"Joerg Linge" pointed out:

```
I am playing around with my new AirCam running AirCam Firmware 1.1.3

It seams /var/run/motion_event is created and the content changes while motion is detected

while true; do cat /var/run/motion_event ; sleep 1; done
```