How to check single IP address to know if it is IP camera address

Question

EDIT: I do know how to access camera when I have its IP address. The question is how to check if the specified IP address in local network belongs to an IP camera.

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I work in a small local network with one router. The Range of available addresses in that network is: from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.0.255

There is an IP camera connected to that network. The address of that camera is: 192.168.0.12 .

I queried the router for its ARP table in command line by using the arp -a command. It is shown here (green color).

I discovered that address by AXIS IP Utility , but I would like to be able to do so programatically.

The camera model is: Axis m1011w

EDIT2 : Thanks to OnoSendai I got the possible IP addresses pool from the router's ARP table:

How do I query each one of the listed IP addresses (for example 192.168.0.12 ) to make sure it is an IP camera?

Answer 1

I do believe this model offers a HTTP RTSP service at port 554. You can try to open a TCP connection to it - if the device accepts the incoming connection, then it may be the camera.

If you have a proper username/password credential pair to access it, then you may access the RTSP service by using this URL:

rtsp://[username]:[password]@[ip.address]:554/axis-media/media.amp

Here's a link to their spec:

http://www.axis.com/en/products/cam_m1011w/index.htm

And here the access instructions:

http://www.wowza.com/forums/content.php?39

In order to list all IP addresses on your local network, you can read the information dumped by the ARP command by using this snippet:

    static List<string> GetARP()
    {
        List<string> _ret = new List<string>();

        Process netUtility = new Process();
        netUtility.StartInfo.FileName = "arp.exe";
        netUtility.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
        netUtility.StartInfo.Arguments = "-a";
        netUtility.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
        netUtility.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
        netUtility.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
        netUtility.Start();

        StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(netUtility.StandardOutput.BaseStream, netUtility.StandardOutput.CurrentEncoding);

        string line = "";
        while ((line = streamReader.ReadLine()) != null)
        {

            if (line.StartsWith("  "))
            {
                var Itms = line.Split(new char[] { ' ' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

                if (Itms.Length == 3)
                    _ret.Add(Itms[0]);
            }
        }

        streamReader.Close();

        return _ret;

    }

The function will return a List<string> containing all local IP addresses (as present at the router's ARP table).