Automate Restart of D-Link DCS-900 Cameras

I have some older D-Link DCS-900 cameras being used with ZoneMinder for a security system at home.

While these cameras are normally very stable (no lock-ups for weeks or months at a time) it still happens. To make things work more smoothly, I decided to find a way to restart the devices with cron.

I decided to have the cameras be reset twice a month (on the 1st and 15th of each month at 4am).

crontab -e
0 4 1,15 * * wget --http-user=admin --http-password=YOUR-PASSWORD -O /dev/null --post-data="Reset= Yes " http://camera1/Reply.html

You can remove the –http-user and –http-password sections if you do not have an admin user/password set.

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2 Responses to Automate Restart of D-Link DCS-900 Cameras

phillip says:

February 10, 2010 at 8:55 pm

I have some DCS-900 but can’t get them to work in zoneminder. Any help would be appreciated.

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- termina says:
  
  February 11, 2010 at 1:03 am
  
  Source Type: Remote
  Remote Host Path: video.cgi
  Remote Hostname: 192.168.x.x (ip of camera)
  width: 640
  height: 480
  
  Are you able to browse to http://cameraip/video.cgi? If not, camera probably needs a firmware upgrade.
  
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