foscam

A few months ago I acquired a Foscam FI9853EP v2 IP Camera. It's a low budget cheap outdoor cam, which seems to do it's job marginally well. There are some quirks, but at EUR 66 it's not that bad. After the latest firmware upgrade to 2.84.2.35 (system firmware 1.12.5.4) it seems the cam started to show problems providing a RTSP stream towards my Shinobi setup. After some tinkering it started working again.

The foscam FI9853EP outdoor IP camera comes default with an attached cable loom, which is very awkward for an outdoor cam. Luckily it's very easy to fix this if you have a POE capable switch.

Cable colour pinout:

Orange White (pin 1)
Orange (pin 2) 
Green White (pin 3) 
Green (pin 6) 
Grey (pin 4) 
Purple (pin 8)

So just cut off the cable and connect it to an IDC strip or use an RJ45 8P8C connector.