Universal Plug and Play framework offers capabilities to discover and control various network devices.

Microsoft Windows operating systems (Windows Millenium Edition, Windows XP, Windows Vista) offer UPnP APIs: Control Point API and Device Host API. These are useful to communicate to network appliances.

The UPnP Scanner utility scans for available devices and show device details as advertised via UPnP framework.

Alax.Info UPnP Scanner

The utility shows the scanning details and you can also use Submit button to post details to me so that I could populate device database.

At the moment I am primarily interested in network cameras, if you own a network (IP) camera or a similar UPnP-compatible device PLEASE post me device details using Submit button.


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Partial (some header files are excluded, however the basic idea is clear) Visual C++.NET 2005 source code can be downloaded here, compiled binary - here.