I have always noticed that CCP has an option for "URC Camera" under the Tools menu (right next to the "Lutron XML" tool). Does anyone have any experience using this feature for any of URC's various video cameras? And if so, which URC remotes were utilized to display the video stream, maybe the MX-6000 or MX-5000??

Thanks for the help.

It's designed for the Total Control product line, not Complete Control. You probably can do standard IP cameras on the Wi-Fi enabled Complete Control remotes, but I've never tried it.



Damon

Yeah, except it's right there in CCP software, so no, it's NOT just for Total Control. The question is if I were to buy a URC IP Camera, would it work to display on my MX-5000 or MX-6000 or iPad? Again, why would the option show up under Tools in the CCP program if it were not meant to work in some way shape or form with a CC remote? Just looking to hear from someone who knows or has done it themselves. Thanks.

Every few months I see that button in CCP and decide I'm going to create a test program with the MX6000 (or MX5000) to see how it works. Then real programming gets in the way and I never do it.

I'm curious too if anyone else has done this with CCP. I wouldn't mind trying a DC1 camera with it if I had a reasonable chance of knowing it would work with the MX6000/MX5000.

I had the same question and was never able to get an answer to that question. The option is def in the CCP software, and no it does not work/find normal IP network cameras. I decided to replace my network IP cameras with URC cameras and that's where the problem came in.

The marketing material on the MX-5000 clearly states that it works with URC cameras to view on the remote. The option is there to use in the CCP software, but apparently it doesn't work. My guess is that URC decided to leave out that option and never supported it.

I lost my local URC guy, so I called another person here in town and asked him about it. He said he never set up the URC camera with the MX-5000 and would call me back and let me know what I needed. He called back and said that it does not work on the CCP line. I basically told him the same thing you mentioned here. I pointed him to the marketing material on this remote where URC boasts about how this is supported. He said he would call URC and get back to me. He called back again and told me that URC told him that the MX-5000 is not a two-way remote and that's why it won't work. Well, that can't be further from the truth. I use two-modules with this remote and it's clearly marketed as a two-way remote. I don't know if he was just trying to get out of the job because he didn't know how to do it, or if URC actually fed him that mis-information because they didn't want to admit that they left out a pretty major feature of the remote that was marketed to work.

If you happen to find out any other info on this, I'd love to hear about it. I gave up on it after a few weeks.

To follow up with what I said before, and so people don't have to take the time to find the marketing material I'm referring to, I've attached two screenshots with red arrows that clearly show that URC marketed certain CCP remotes to work with URC cameras.



Here's another in the same document:









 

I have used it w/MX-6000 in CCP

Thank you Joe, as I suspected it will work just fine. I have a MC-70VC on order now and I'll be hooking the live video feed up in CCP with my MX-6000 and KP-4000. Hopefully the audio will come through as well using the earbud connector on the MX-6000, but frankly I don't care if it's just video, that's fine. Of course the MC-70VC has a microphone for audio, the other URC cameras don't as far as I know, so it would be nice to get the audio as well. But not a show-stopper if it's only video. I will try it with my MX-5000 as well, I have the module and have un-commented out the variable in the .vfd file, but I suspect the sizing of the video will not work quite right with the MX-5000. Even though URC showed this working on MX-5000's in several published pieces of literature of theirs, it seems that somewhere along the line they stopped pushing that as an option. It was "reserved" to some extent for the KP-4000 and MX-6000. But I'll try pushing the envelope with the 5000 too.

Thanks to all for the ongoing contributions to this thread. I'll post my updates as soon as I get my hands on that camera. Could take a week or so. Cheers.

Joe, could you tell me which camera model you used with the MX-6000?

It was their original outdoor dome camera, MC-73 maybe?

Thank you! That gives me something to look at.

Okay, just completed the proof of concept here...with much success...

I now have a URC MC-70VC indoor IP camera being viewed perfectly on both an MX-6000 and a KP-4000. I can also view the camera from any Internet Explorer browser on my LAN. Doesn't work with Firefox or Safari at all. With IE on a Windows machine (or VM), you get not only nice video but also the audio. I can find no way yet to get the audio input from the camera mic to come across on the MX-6000 or KP-4000. I wouldn't expect it necessarily on the KP-4000, but the MX-6000 has a decent speaker output on the back of it, and also an Earphone connection. I was hoping (always dangerous) that you could hear the audio by plugging in earphones to the earphone jack. That apparently would make too much sense :-) If anyone has any ideas of things to try to get Audio on an actual URC remote that would be great. The video is perfect but I'd rather not rely on a full web browser in order to get the audio. [The use case here is to use this in a nursery where baby sounds are important. Again, web browser would do it, but would require keeping a laptop open at all times in the house for the baby to be "monitored". I'd rather see it done from an actual URC device that is smaller/more portable.]

Ideas welcome as always. Thanks.

Did you get a chance to try to get this working on the MX-5000 like it was advertised?

I have tried the MX-5000 with no success as of yet. I have tried various ipc.vfd files, but they were not made for the MX-5000 screen size obviously, they come from the KP-4000 folder or the MX-6000 folder and they do not work. Not surprised. What I'd like to get my hands on is an ipc.vfd file that was built for the screen size of the MX-5000. I suspect that there is one for the Total Control version of the MX-5000 (the TRC-1280), and I'd love to try it out within the CCP suite if anyone has access to that file and wants to share it. Of course it is a crapshoot as to whether it would work, but I'd love to try it and see, with no expectations of success.