Saturday, May 1, 2010

GeoVision iphone webbrowser alternative

I got a geo vision card to replace the standalone dvr for my security cameras. GV makes a decent application, but best of all, it's easy to hack your own stuff. I was not really happy with the GV-IView iphone app. It takes like a half hour to load and view a camera feed. And it's the same situation on the firefox jpeg viewer. So here's my workaround.


Go to your gv directory and find the web temp directory, mine was C:\GV-600\WebTemp\
Then rename your ChangePwd.htm to ChangePwd.BAK (for backup) then download my version, replacing the original. Download here.

So now when you browse to your GV web version http://:/ChangePwd.htm you get a nice iphone and firefox compatible version. The only downside is that you can't change your password from the web anymore, you would have to be at the DVR to change password. I had to do it this way, because GV would not let me serve a new html file, so I had to edit an existing webpage.

Once you log in, all of your settings are saved in a cookie, so that means a quick auto login. I'm not going to get into all the details of this mod, but it does lot's of stuff, and looks great on an iPad / iPhone too because you can pinch and spread to zoom in on your feeds. Also, if you add the webpage to the iphone homescreen, it makes a nice icon.

IPhone Screenshots:






IPad Screenshots:



16 comments:

w0rm said...

pretty cool, how much did you pay for the geovision card?

Treas0n said...

i think like $250 for 4 cameras

w0rm said...

oh, i have seen the generic versions of the geovision cards on eBay. By any chance, do you know of any programs that can take static camera images and send them to an iPhone for viewing? I have motion recorders and the computer takes static images and outputs them into a folder, and i would like to view them on my iPhone.

Treas0n said...

I read that the clones don't work well with the geovision software, but I am no expert.

For your question, You could put them in a dropbox folder and use the dropbox app to view them.

I like to send snapshots to my gmail, this way if my dvr ever gets stolen I still have the pictures in google's cloud. Plus they give u 7gigs of space :)

w0rm said...

oh, i heard the same but they work fine for me, would the drop-box app auto-refresh the image?
also i upload the pictures to windows live storage, they provide 25 GB free =P

Treas0n said...

Yea i think dropbox only offers 1gb, but they have a nice iphone app.

Treas0n said...

LOL who is this?

w0rm said...

im sorry, i can not reveal identities online for security reasons, but i congratulate your work

Treas0n said...

See now i gotta erase your comments, cuz you blew up my spot.

That's what I get for talking to strangers

w0rm said...

im sorry and i do appreciate the purging of them

Anonymous said...

This is OT, but the side links to apps like FreeRemoteMouse are down. Is there a mirror somewhere?

Anonymous said...

Any chance you can make this mod work with version 8.1 or version 7.xx

Anonymous said...

This is a VIRUS you IDIOTS

Anonymous said...

You're an idiot u dickhead... It's not a virus it's fucking HTML u dumb shit. Look at the source code dipshit.

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nice software
regards

Anonymous said...

Hey Treas0n, I'm looking for an old piece of software you wrote, but the links are broke. It's the MCE File Browser, is there any way you could post an updated link?

Thanks,