TP-Link NC220

Some more or less random stuff about TP-Link NC220 IP Camera

Playing Streams

• Most browsers do not support the live view anymore: "Um, this browser may not support camera video well. Your browser is outdated. Please update to the latest version to play videos."

Workaround

• You can directly open the mjpeg video stream as URL:
  • Replace "nc220.lan" by your camera ip
  • Replace password string by your password, base64 encoded
  • http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/video/mjpeg?resolution=VGA&Username=admin&Password=YWRtaW4=
  • http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/video/mjpeg?Username=admin&Password=YWRtaW4=
  • Note: Username and Password have to be given inside the url string. The password window seems not to work.

There are a bunch of audio and video sources where you can try to obtain streams from. Most of them do not work as expected but there are some working constellations.

Playing streams requires authentication! Use your normal camera user account. The password must be base64 encoded. In the examples here the standard password admin (YWRtaW4= in base64) is used.

List of available Video Sources

• http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/video/mjpeg
  • cvlc --network-caching=0 http://admin:YWRtaW4=@nc220.lan:8080/stream/video/mjpeg
• http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/video/h264
• http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/video/mjpeg_mixed
• rtsp://admin:admin@nc220.lan:554/h264_vga.sdp
  • vlc --started-from-file rtsp://admin:admin@nc220.lan:554/h264_vga.sdp

List of available Audio Sources

• http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/audio/wavpcm
• http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/audio/wavpcmblock
• http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/audio/mpegmp2
  • mplayer -nocache -user admin -passwd YWRtaW4= "http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/audio/mpegmp2"
• http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/audio/mpegmp2block
• http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/audio/mpegaac
• http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/audio/mpegaacblock

Getting Still Images

• wget --user=admin --password=YWRtaW4= http://nc220.lan:8080/stream/snapshot.jpg

Portscan

PORT     STATE SERVICE
80/tcp   open  http
554/tcp  open  rtsp
2020/tcp open  xinupageserver
8080/tcp open  http-proxy

Firmware

The camera itself runs under linux. Some GPL files can be downloaded at tplink http://www.tp-link.com/en/gpl-code.html?model=NC220 .

Hardware

Some hardware info and pictures from inside can be found at FCC:

• https://fccid.io/TE7NC220
• https://fccid.io/TE7NC200

Discontinued

Don´t have the time to look on this any longer. Feel free to fork and continue.