# IpCamera: New IP Camera Binding

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/ipcamera-new-ip-camera-binding/42771>\
**Category:** Bindings\
**Tags:** camera, onvif, ip-cam1\
**Created:** [March 30, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/ipcamera-new-ip-camera-binding/42771 "2018-03-30T00:13:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![matt1](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/matt1/32/19930_2.png) [@matt1](https://community.openhab.org/u/matt1)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/ipcamera-new-ip-camera-binding/42771/446 "2018-08-29T00:25:19Z")

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> [@zacofunny](#):
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> I think I’m not alone here with this issue

See this post here on how I fixed this in my setup…

> [@IpCamera: New IP Camera Binding](https://community.openhab.org/t/ipcamera-new-ip-camera-binding/42771/388):
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> @Pedals2Paddles For anyone that gets OOME (out of memory errors) with the java heap space, then this is how I solved it to allow me to drop the refresh down to 1000ms. I have had my two cameras running for \>24 hours without issues. I suspect this has to do with javas garbage collection not running often enough to deal with the large amounts of data passing through the image item if you are running your system close to the max allocated heap size. In the openhab console run this command (option…

This binding uses the image item in a more aggressive way than other bindings, as well as the amount of RAM that is used and requires garbage clean up is also very high. Possibly there are settings for garbage collection that could be tweaked, have not looked into this yet as I do not see the error since the post above. Recently I have been setting up a new Odroid C2 server because it has more RAM than a PI2 so I have been rebooting daily whilst getting it setup, but I’ll leave it running for a week to see what happens. Can you provide any more information on how you are using the setup? Are you running the picture on multiple tablets that are displaying 100% of the time? Anything in the logs?

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