Axis Companion Bullet mini LE Camera - direct FFMPEG access?

[mamacker]

Hello Team,
I recently purchased a AXIS Companion Bullet mini LE camera and I'm experimenting with creating machine learning products around this camera line. Our Machine Learning software uses FFMPEG to consume RTSP streams and pass them into the software.

I've been mucking around with it - and it appears - at first - that AXIS requires an extra layer of hardware in the recorder. I found that I could install "companion classic" to get around this requirement - as I don't need the extra hardware since I'm running POE everywhere on my facility. BUT - for the life of me, I can't get to the RTSP stream on this camera - no matter which password or username combination or machination I attempt.

The camera is working as I can see it within Axis Companion Classic - but none of the URLs I've researched have effectively worked.

If this is successful - I'm hoping to propose this solution across rather large installations that have a mix of old and new axis cameras, with this one accenting areas that have not been covered.

Thanks in advance.

For reference the error is:
method DESCRIBE failed: 403 Forbidden

A sample of the attempted URLs are:
1999 ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://root:@192.168.1.226/axis-media/media.amp"
2000 ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://admin:@192.168.1.226/axis-media/media.amp"
2001 ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://ACCAdmin:@192.168.1.226/axis-media/media.amp"
2003 ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://root:@192.168.1.226/axis-media/media.amp?camera=1"
2004 ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://192.168.1.226/axis-media/media.amp?camera=1"

There were many other attempts... but none provide any clue, and the homepage on the camera - gives no detail. Anyone else have success with these little guys? They are wonderfully compact and I'd love to make use of them all over the place.

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[mamacker]

I should also note - I've reviewed many of the other discussion - like this one: https://github.com/orgs/AxisCommunications/discussions/279 but the interface described to enable these username and logins does not appear to be in the companion software.

[rocky-ji]

AXIS Companion line camera is designed to only work with the companion software, so you can't use it in other software.

if you want to use ACAP or rtsp, try to buy some camera models begin with M, P, Q, F,for example M1135，P3265...