Foscam cameras are controlled through a web interface. The web interface has commands for changing brightness, contrast, and even rebooting the camera. You can run these commands by visiting specific URL’s. For example, to reboot the camera visit:
http://192.168.1.110:8080/reboot.cgi?user=admin&pwd=password
Where 192.* is your address and port, and user=<your username>, and pwd=<your password>. This will reboot the camera without you having to login and actually click Reboot.
Because we have the ability to execute commands from a single URL, they can be automated by having a web browser run them at a specific time and interval. Instead of keeping open a web browser on our computer – and having to refresh the commands using META or JavaScript, we can use a command-line web browser like Lynx with Windows Task Scheduler.
Below I explain how this is done.
