Axis camera with old applet firmware

[dummyax]

Hi, tried to use this with an older Axis camera with a java applet to set motion detection but it only says: "Your browser does not support java". Tried the rubics cube and it works so it is correctly installed. Any help is greatly appreciated as I need the camera to work. Thanks

[alexp-sssup]

Do you have a way to share this applet (the URL or an archive) with us? We can take a look, but you should be aware that CheerpJ Applet Runner is limited by what the browser can do, so if this applet requires some form of hardware access it is likely that it cannot be supported.

We are interested in taking a look at the applet in either case.

[dummyax]

Thank you for the quick reply, sadly I cannot share it but all axis cameras with firmware below 6.5 have this java applet. Is there a way to extract the applet?

[alexp-sssup]

Well, if you can visit the applet page with a browser you can copy over the HTML code and the JAR or class files which compose the applet. I am not able to provide you with a step-by-step procedure since that depends on the specific page.

[nh2]

Hi, I also hav an Axis camera, here is the JAR (renamed to .zip so that GitHub allows uploading it):

ama.zip

[alexp-sssup]

Thanks for the jar, can you also share a dump of the HTML that uses this applet?

[nh2]

Looks like this:

The <applet> tag:

<applet name="AMA" codebase="/java/ama" archive="ama.jar" code="ama.MediaApplet" codetype="application/x-java-applet;version=1.4" type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.4" width="886" height="460" id="AMAPlayer">
  <param name="permissions" value="sandbox">
  <param name="name" value="AMA">
  <param name="codebase" value="/java/ama">
  <param name="archive" value="ama.jar">
  <param name="code" value="ama.MediaApplet">
  <param name="codetype" value="application/x-java-applet;version=1.4">
  <param name="type" value="application/x-java-applet;version=1.4">
  <param name="mayscript" value="false">
  <param name="ama_cgi-path" value="axis-cgi">
  <param name="cache_archive" value="ama.jar, md.jar">
  <param name="cache_version" value="1.2.0.0, 1.2.0.0">
  <param name="ama_plugins" value="md.MotionDetection,">
  <param name="ama_url" value="/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?camera=1&amp;rotation=0&amp;mirror=no&amp;resolution=640x400&amp;overview=1&amp;text=no&amp;clock=no&amp;date=no&amp;overlayimage=0">
  Your browser does not support Java
</applet>

Here is the dump of the page; it uses a <frameset> (classy!), so I dumped outer HTML of the outer page and the frame separately (the 2nd frame in the frameset is empty so I skipped that):

• top-level-frameset.html.txt
• inner-frame.html.txt

Let me know if that's useful!

Thank you for making this type of legacy stuff work, much appreciated!

[alexp-sssup]

After a quick test I can see that the applet also needs another file /java/ama/md.jar, can you share that too?

Can you also clarify what version of CheerpJ Applet Runner are you using. We just released a massive update with version 2024.10 and it might be the case this will just work.

In case it does not, can you please share what you see on the screen and the browser console after enabling the extension for this page?