Camect Setup Instructions for Camect Hubs and Camect Cameras

Created by Joshua Parsons, Modified on Tue, 16 Apr, 2024 at 9:47 AM by Joshua Parsons

This chapter is intended to ensure you understand how to setup Camect Hubs and connected cameras with Watchful.

Learning Objectives

Integrate Camect with Watchful

Intended Training Audience

Integrators and Monitoring Stations setup the integration from Camect to Watchful

Helpful Tip:

Record the following information when completing your setup to avoid having to find it later:

apiUser password

Hub ID

Hub Public Address

Camera ID

Hub Timezone

Step 1: Load the Hub settings of the device you wish to report to Watchful

Navigate to https://home.camect.com/

!	If you are using Version 1 UI, you need to change to Version 2 UI. The prompt to change to version 2 UI can be found at the top of the home screen of Camect, or visit https://home.camect.com/v2/

Once loaded, navigate to the settings user interface.

Step 2: Set the Monitoring parameters in the Camect Hub

Detect Alerts	Enabled
Time Limit	Nil
Detect objects in alerts	All
Draw object boxes in alert videos	Enabled
Draw time on alert clips	Enabled
Customize start time of alert clips	Disabled
Send alerts whenever a new object is detected	Enabled
Send multiple alerts for the same object every X milliseconds	5000
Enabled long distance mode	Optional, enabling may affect Hub performance
Enable sensitive mode	Enabled
Do not auto-suppress similar person or vehicle alerts	Optional, disabled is recommended
Send alerts via email, telegram or app	Optional
Send alert if camera is offline for X minutes	Optional
Do not send alerts for broken storage	Disabled
Delay sending alerts to monitoring	Disabled

!	Webhook setting is not a mandatory requirement for the Hub - you do not need to create any webhook settings.

Step 3: Add Monitoring

!	You may be required to complete port forwarding on the devices/network, and enable port 8087 on the device itself.

In the same settings page as Step 2, press Add Monitoring and scroll down to XML over TCP, and select it.

Site ID	1
TCP address	35.236.46.48:8087
Connect to server securely with TLS	Disabled
Add cameras	Select all cameras you wish to post to Watchful
Send auto suppressed alerts too	Enabled
Give up on delivering alerts that have failed for a while	Disabled
Send test alerts every X hours	24

Step 4: Add an Administration User

Add a user "apiUser"as a Local user and set the permissions to Administrator. Delete the other permissions. Set a secure password and store it for the Watchful integration.

The hub administrator will need to accept the Terms of Service for the apiUser account.

Step 5: Collect the Hub ID and Camera ID's for the Watchful user interface

Navigate to the Basic settings tab and copy the Hub ID and the public IP address.

Repeat the same step per below for each camera. To identify the camera ID, locate the camera you want to surface from then home screen and click the help icon. The camera ID will also appear.

Copy each camera ID you want to send to Watchful for monitoring.

The setup for Camect to Watchful at the Camect hub and camera level is now completed.

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