The information in this post may seem very basic to people who have a wireless IP camera for some time, but, we all tend to forget how confusing and frustrating our first steps may have been setting up these gadgets the very first time. I'll try to second the network settings chapter in the (even though a true geek never reads the manual) to help passing the blocking points of the wi-fi setup procedure. This is based on a Foscam camera but can certainly be used with other wireless cameras. The step that nobody has problem with (usually) is connecting the camera to the network with the Ethernet cable. When this is done, the wireless settings can be accessed from the Administrator section and that's where a first very common error is made: Many beginners enter an arbitrary name in the SSID field, thinking it will identify the camera on the network. What is needed here, is the name of an access point (typically your wi-fi router). Also make sure that you choose a supported encryption and prefer WPA to WEP if possible.
The channel should also match the one used by the router. In the most recent firmwares, there is a scan button to detect available access points automatically. If nothing appears after scanning you may need to click the refresh button.
The next step is often unclear as well to newbies: once you click on the Submit button, the camera will start a countdown of 30 seconds to restart. This is the moment to unplug the Ethernet cable. You should have done this within 10 seconds, on FI8908W, it is typically before you hear the short click from the camera speaker preceding the initial rotation sequence. The camera will start looking for a network and, at the condition that there is no more Ethernet connection, a wireless access point will be searched. If everything goes well, after a few seconds, the green led will the blink much faster than before, indicating that it achieved a wireless connection. The final step is to check your router's DHCP page for any incoming request, this is likely to be your ip camera (If nothing appears, ensure that you disabled the MAC filtering on your router for the time of the procedure).Just use that ip address in the url of your browser to confirm it is what you expect.
You can then add this address to your static DHCP list and MAC filter exceptions. Thanks for the great site! It has been quite helpful in getting my new Foscam set up. I'm still having a problem with the wireless.
Following your instructions above, I can get the wireless to work. I input the wireless settings, hit submit, then quickly unplug the ethernet cable. Wireless then works. HOWEVER, I don't wish to keep the camera by the router.
Therefore, I need to unplug the power from the camera. Every time I unplug the power and then plug it back in again, it will not re-connect wirelessly. How can I move the camera once the wireless is established after unplugging the ethernet?
@Jason, normaly, once you've unplugged the camera and it went to detect the access point the first time, it should be permanent and the camera could be moved anywhere away from the router. Maybe you could try re-entering your wireless settings after the camera has been unpluggeg from the RJ45 and is working wireless (Use the ActiveX interface on IE preferably for this, I suspect the server push mode does not save some settings correctly): - re-confirm the settings manually by going in Device Management Wireless Lan Setting: click the Scan button and (re)enter your settings (if you don't see the scan button, you'd need to upgrade to fw to 11.14.1.46 but make sure you have a Foscam and not a clone before doign that!). Then, without re-plugging the Ethernet, power it off and on to see if the settings remained this time. Thanks, Bubbah. It appears that my problem may simply be extremely weak wifi reception by my camera.
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I did as you described, and it does work. However, it only works from about 4 feet of my N router. Within 4 feet, it will connect to the wireless after being powered down. At that distance from the router, the picture is clear and movement is smooth. Using an extension cord, if I walk the camera farther away, say 10 feet, the movement becomes extremely, unbearably choppy. If I power it down and plug it in any distance greater than about 4-5 feet, it will not pick up the wireless signal.
Do I have a defective unit? What type of wireless range is everybody else getting? I'd like to use mine at a distance of 20-30 feet from my router. Being an N router, this should be no problem.
Bubbah Great site.thanks. You know I searched everywhere to try and find a way to connect via iPhone.
I downloaded an app called Foscam IP Camera control, but it only shows you the video in half of the screen. Anyway, I could connect via the browser but it would not show the video (ActiveX), but when I logged in using the 'push mode' it works!! Simple enough, but worth mentioning to those that have an iPhone.
Also, I have mine using port 8080.how do I use that port so that when people log in using my dyndns name (xxxxx.dyndns.org:8080), they dont have to add the port after it and so can just use xxxx.dyndns.org? @Rory&Sarah: Check also IP Vision and Live Cam for iPhone, they are reported to work with Foscam's. I've put a brief presentation. Instead of using the DDNS parameters from the camera, the alternative is to do this on the router instead, and there, arrange some port forwarding.
Example: I've got 3 cameras, all on port 80 locally, but the router is set to forward incoming http on port 80 to camera1's port 80, incoming http on port 82 to camera2's port 82, and so on. In your case just do a routing of incoming http:80 to internal port 8080 of your camera. @Rory&Sarah: Yes, it should work as you describe. Just check that you don't keep the 'microphone' icon while talking, it's not necessary, just one click to 'enable' and one click to 'disable'. Anyway, at best, you'll hear something choppy and the plastic will vibrate so much it will be almost impossible to understand anything from the camera side. On recent models, there is an audio plug where you can connect an external speaker. You would get slightly better result also by testing the camera wired to the Ethernet.
I've check the doc and there is no volume setting. @ Bubbah from a different post: 'I systematically get IE8 crashing on Windows 7 when entering the administrator settings. I don't have this with IE8 on XP. Maybe there's some security setting to adjust on 7? I didn't investigate much so far as I mostly use the Server Push mode anyway.'
I am having the exact same issue with Win 7. Has anybody found a solution for this yet? Also, I set my camera in motion alarm mode last night. It started reporting alarms early and often this morning. It seems that the sunlight and/or shadows caused by the sunlight trigger the alarm. My sensitivity is set to 10. Do I simply need to turn down the sensitivity to stop these false alarms?
What is a good setting # that others are using? I've come across a problem here and was wondering if someone can help. I now have 2 Foscams set up.
Within LAN everything work OK. However, when accessing any of the cams from the internet, then attempting to multi-view (grid) one cam always shows up with a yellow light and after a few seconds I get a 'failed to connect' error. Configuration -From my router I assigned each cam with a static IP lease (static DHCP) using their individual MAC addresses.EDIT. Tried removing the static leases from router and setting up cams with static IP's. Still the same.
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Each cam is setup with a different port. Both cams are configured to communicate with each other using the web gui. Port Forwarding as follows: Application Protocol External Port Redirect Port IP Address - - - - - Cam1 TCP 90xx 90xx 192.168.1.x Cam2 TCP 90yy 90yy 192.168.1.y Now, when logging on (from internet using IE+ActiveX) I can access the gui's and view every camera separately, no problems there. If I connect to cam1 (cam2 cannot be viewed on the grid. If I connect to cam2 (cam1 cannot be viewed on the grid. I can open 2 separate IE tabs and connect each tab to different cam.that's fine too.
I also tried connecting using WebcamXP as host, again only one cam can be viewed simultaneously. Live Cams on my iPhone is not affected by this, I can see both cams from the internet on the grid, which leads me to think this is not a port forwarding issue.
I have basically run out of ideas at this point. Did I miss anything? I contacted support regarding multi device view over WAN and indeed it is necessary to input the WAN IP's into the multi device settings in order for it to work. Here's a copy of the official instructions (in MS Excel format) in case anyone needs it: As Bubbah kindly suggested I will use some 3rd party app such as WebcamXP for LAN access and the cam servers for WAN.
I also inquired about the distorted sound quality when attempting to speak through the cams. I attached a short recording of the output as requested by the support rep. The reply was not very helpful I'm afraid, they claim that the distortion is caused by settings on my PC and that I need to turn off echo and noise suppression.
I could not find those settings on my computer, but attempted to disable any extended mic functionality I could find. None of that made any difference. I actually tried 3 different notebooks and the output was exactly the same. I even tested an external speaker using the mini jack connector and the distortion was still present.only much louder:(. Hello welshtiger, The camera can be configured to use a ddns service but that's not the best approach when you have a router.
You'll prefer to setup the ddns on your router instead. Start by taking a free ddns account from one of the providers supported by your router (It must have a section in the setup for configuring a ddns with a list providers like dyndns.com, no-ip.com. Where you'll enter your account details once created) You'll also need to make yourself familiar with port forwarding in your router, so incoming requests on, say port 80, will be forwarded to your camera's ip and port 80. Check the, it's quite well explained in there. @orionsm That works for me (with a Billion Bipac 7420GXL router) with all the cameras: I leave the camera network settings to 'Obtain IP from DHCP Server'.
Then I first wait for the camera to receive a dynamic ip from the router Next, I manually store its reported wi-fi MAC address into the static DHCP list with whatever ip I want. Next time I reboot the camera, it takes the static address from the router. If it doesn't work that way for you, maybe check if Netgear has any firmware update for your router? @ quote bubbah Hello welshtiger, The camera can be configured to use a ddns service but that's not the best approach when you have a router. You'll prefer to setup the ddns on your router instead.
Start by taking a free ddns account from one of the providers supported by your router (It must have a section in the setup for configuring a ddns with a list providers like dyndns.com, no-ip.com. Where you'll enter your account details once created) You'll also need to make yourself familiar with port forwarding in your router, so incoming requests on, say port 80, will be forwarded to your camera's ip and port 80.
Check the user manual from Foscam, it's quite well explained in there. Morning Bubbah Still not quite sure about port forwarding and if i did it correctly on router ( router is NETGEAR DG834GT ) so i configured camera instead. I made a ddns account and configured the camera with my account details. Now i can access the camera through its IP address on my lan and ( ddns http address ) You say it would be better to configure through the router, any reason for this?
Also as i am aware, its an easynp camera, it already had the latest firmware, but does anyone know if the flashing light can be turned off. Thanks in advance to you and this site.
Have helped me understand a little bit more but still lots to learn. Could really use some advice but I hate to ask since it's probably pretty basic. I originally made the mistake listed in the wireless setup text of not unplugging the camera until the countdown had completed. I tried this page's method, and got as far as the camera pulling in my wireless network settings, and getting the quick flashing network lamp. But it killed my network somehow. No more network/internet access for any of my computers.
Power cycled and got the network back but no internet. Reset EVERYTHING and got it all back except my linksys program is still telling me that I have no internet connection (though I'm using it to ask for help right now). Got the FOSCAM pugged in with the ethernet cable and it's all operational. Except now it can't locate any networks. I hit the refresh button, scan again, nothing.
I can't locate any off settings in the networking stuff, but I am not an IT pro by any means. And THANK YOU! @Mathew I've never heard of such disastrous effects installing this tiny camera. You should first make sure that you have the latest program and firmware for your Linksys router 'cause it's unlikely that camera can be the only responsible of that. Don't setup any port forwarding yet and ensure that you don't do MAC filtering on the router for the moment. Let the router assign an ip to your camera in a first time, then when it's done, you can manually enter that assigned ip in to the fixed dhcp table. Bubbah, Thank you!
I think my router may be dying a slow and obscure death, or it was one hell of a single event error. I don't know what's going on with it, but I tried again as you instructed, everything died again; but when I power cycled, it all came back (Linksys still erroneously claiming no internet) and the camera was working wirelessly! Now, mysteriously, the Linksys is recognizing the internet connection and everything is happy. I think it's just well beyond me to understand. For camera #2!
Thank you again Bubbah! I know from reviews that I'm not the only one with this (very) minor complaint, and I did read about Foscam's good customer service; but I was still blown away by FOSCAM's customer response!
These people are unbelievable! (read below) Dear Mat, Thank you for the support on Foscam's product. This is Dancy from Foscam. Nice to meet you here. We can provide the entension for the power cord. How long do you want extend?
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Best Regards Dancy chen ( Miss ) Sales & Marketing Team E-mail: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] - ShenZhen Foscam Intelligent Technology co., Ltd. Tel: 86-755-2674 5668 EXT:308 Fax: 86-755-2674 5168 Mobile: +1543 Website: www.foscam.com www.foscam.com.cn - 发件人: mat cicero 收件人: [email protected] 抄送: 主题: FW: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Good Day, I've recently purchased a FI8908W IP camera and set it up. I am very happy with the camera in all ways except for the short power cord. If FOSCAM were to offer an extension for the cord so that the transformer could remain plugged directly into the wall and the small diameter power cord could be extended through a female to male extension I would certainly purchase it. I already bought 3 cameras for my home security setup, i was connecting via cable and everything was fine. But after switch to wireless mode i'm having some serious problems to sucessfully connect the cameras to the routers! My house have 3 stories, every floor has it's own router/AP, in every router happens the same problem!
When i try, it keeps searching for some wireless ap to connect, in the router log, i can see the camera associating with the router (STA-ASSOC) but suddenly it drops the connection! After reset the camera several times, finally it connects and works. Anyone knows what this can be? (all cameras have the lastest software/firmware) THanks for the help.
@DouglasteR Did you have a confirmation from Foscam that it an authentic one from them? If you email them your DeviceID's (in Device Status) they'd tell you for sure. Typically, the ones in Red and white boxes sold by DealExtreme.com are copies for instance. If returning them is not an option, you may try the procedure shown. In the recovery package I've included an auto-translation of a txt file with upgrade instructions, and at the end of it it says something like: 'Press ESC to set MAC address set-mac0 00:11:22:33:55:66' So it seems possible but I'm not sure which Wi-fi or Ethernet address it changes and if it works at all. @sanchoaugust maybe you didn't unplug the Ethernet cable early enough during the boot up time?
Check also on your router if a new ip address has been registered in the DHCP table, that's likely your ip camera. Ensure that you don't use MAC filtering and that your router is using broadcast mode in Wi-Fi. There's been also some fake Foscam (If your camera comes from DealExtreme, it's not a Foscam) that came with badly conencted wifi antenna not properly. The wire inside the camera was damaged. It would be the case if your camera works wirelessly only if sitting just beside the router. Heloo bubbah, i bought the camera in one of the recommended sellars of foscam in ebay.
I manage to do a wireless connection but only if i don't close the window while the camera is robooting. And sometimes the signal is lost. But if i close the window and tried to open it again, then i cant access again. I will try again this afternoon (working am today) and to understand about DHCP adn mac filtering. One more question, in the ipcamera tool, can you see the camera regardless if you are using network cable or wireless? Because in my case, i can only see the camera in ipcamera tool when it is connected to network cable but not on wireless. Thanks, august.
Hello Bubbah, A follow up on my camera, i reset the camera using the reset button on the back, when i turned it on, it's asking me to update web ui which i downloaded perfectly. Again, i followed all the insructions on how to set it up.
NOw this is the situation 1. I cannot still access my camera through wifi, the only thing i was able to access it is when i remain the webpage open after removing the network cable on the camera. This one won't last long. By the time i close the webpage and access it again, then it wont reconnect. In my linksys lela software, the details of the camera becomes offline by the time i remove the cable network. Surpricingly, i can access the camera from outside through my physical ip address plus the port without any problems.
On this part, i don't understand. It should be straight forward when i access the ip address of my camera but it not happening. Hope you can give me an answer. Many thanks, August Ho. Hello Bubbah I just finish reading your whole site, and now I'm up to speed on real cams vs clones. Not sure which one I have, I just wanted a baby moniter so I bought what seemed like a good deal on an IP CAM from a US seller with good ratings on EBAY. I may have a legit version because I was able to upgrade to the latest firmware ( ending in 46 ).
The cam is pretty kool for the price, but the mic does not pick up much sound and the buzz I get when I turn the volume up on my computer is infuriating. Is there anything I can do? I'm I the only one who is getting a humm. Or a mic thats not very good. No returns on ebay, should I cut my losses and admit to an 80 dollar mistake on a baby moniter. Bubbah I really appreciate your response, I've added your site to my list of favorites and consider myself to be a gadget victim regular.
This camera is pretty amazing and for this price there arent any IPCAMS that can really compete. I really did like the idea of being able to watch my son at work, or on my phone without having to be a sling box and a $300 RF camera You do make a good point I do not have much to lose so I will see what I can do with the mic. Although I'm not sure I have the know how to 'better isolate or replace the microphone'.
Maybe I can speak to one of the EE's in my firm ( I'm an ME )But since I probably will be buying a more commercial baby monitor anyway, why not try and fool around with it. As soon as I figure out where to start. I've had my IPcam (FI8908w) since January and am quite pleased with it.
The posts here have been a great help, Bubbah. Been reading them since December. I was wondering if you tested its wireless range at all.
Or if any others may have some insight into that. Yeah - I know - Different locales will produce different results. But a ball-park reference would be good. It just seems that mine will work about 1 room away or so. Any further and it becomes problematic.
I tried a higher gain antenna but it didn't do any better. I haven't had the nerve, yet, to open it up and check the antenna wire. After wiring it up to an old Linksys WAP, the range it gives me is phenomenal. So I'm hesitant to pop the case open. Thanx again, WDave. Hi Ravat, I've tried with a repeater. It worked but it reduced the bandwidth of my router.
And more repeater you have, less bandwidth you get. You almost divide by 2 when you add one repeater. I finally replaced the antenna of my router by this one: - Frequency: 2400-2483MHz - Polarisation: vertical - Gain: 8 dBi - VSWR. My friends, hello to everybody I'm writing from Italy and first in order I would ask you to forgive my bad English. After a week of anger with the manual Foscam, Thanks to your suggestions I was able to connect my two IP-cam (both Foscam) to the router and to see them either via WiFi or ethernet. After a week of anger with the manual Foscam, Thanks to your suggestions I was able to connect two routers and IP-cam to see them either via WiFi or ethernet. However, I still need your help, because to follow Foscam manual is not helping me in any way.
This is the problem as I said, I can now see and work perfectly with both cameras, but only locally. Instead, I can not work with cameras by remote. I read dozens of forums and threads, and I tried to follow their suggestions, but altough I'm still not able to access the cameras remotely The ports on the router seem to be properly opened, the tool of 'Port Forward' says so. I registered my account on DynDNS and activated my host.dyndns.org then, in some forums people told me to write directly in the browser myhostname.dyndns.org: PORTNUMBER (eg. Foscam.dyndns.org: 8000) and I tried to do so, but I can't reach the ip-cam page. Now in this blog, I've read that some of you were able to configure their cams and their routers so as to be able to access the cameras remotely Also me, I would need to do this. So I ask you: Please, Would you help me?
My adsl/router is the Netgear DGN3500, My Foscam cams are respectively the models FI8908W and FI8904W I hope to find soon your help. Christianrogari, try the following: 1. Establish a Static IP Lease (Static DHCP/MAC-IP Bind) to each of the cams in your router so that it keeps leasing the same IP to the cams. Type in your DynDNS account details in your router's DDNS settings, not in the cams. Log on to each cam and change the port numbers to something else and different from each other, for example: Cam1: 9050 Cam2: 9051 4. Log back on to the router and open (forward) both ports for the corresponding cam IPs that you have established a fixed lease for in step 1.
Now you should be able to log on to the cams: Locally: Cam1: IP1:9050 Cam2: IP2:9051 From Internet: Cam1: Cam2: Hope this helps. I have a small problem with the multi-devices view.
In local with IE, I can see all my cameras in one page with the multi-device view. In the multi-device setting, for each device I have set my local addresses (2nd device: 192.168.1.2, 3rd device:192.168.1.3 and so on) and it works very well. From internet the multi-device view doesn't work.
I can see each of my cameras on a separate IE page (Http://mydns.org:2 and Http://mydns.org:3) but when I open one page (the same camera that I was using in local with the multi-device view) after few minutes I have the message 'fail to connect to the device: Timeout' and I can see only one camera, not the others. Did I do something wrong? The WAP I'm using is, as I'd said, an.old. Linksys Wireless-G. I'd upgraded its firmware and set it up to work as a 'bridge/Client'. Unfortunatly, being used as BOTH a Bridge and a Client can cause issues. Not just the drop to 50% bandwidth (due to it pulling double duty) but also signal collisions (the WAP picking up signals from both the Camera and from the remote router).
One would think that it wouldn't be all too bad. The Camera should be able to reconnect or reset but my Foscam doesn't always do this (don't get me wrong.
I love the little bugger). What I need is more experience. I know that much.;-) I ended up connecting the Foscam to the WAP with a cable and that seems to have bypassed the problems. Even viewing it from across town shows no issues. Maybe another brand, or newer WAP would work better. @Ravat: What would be a good price or brand? Dunno this also.
I've seen a few sellers on eBay offering new wireless routers with DDWRT(sp?) firmware that supposedly provides Bridge or Client modes (plus more stuff that is beyond my meager understanding). You might want to do a search there for typical pricings. Their's seems pretty reasonable to me. Don't know a whole heck of a lot after all, W.
@ Falcordog Thanks for the explanation. I set the cam's WAN IP addresses and now the multi-views works. I've never tried the mail service system. How does it work? When the alarm is activated, does it send an email with pictures attached like other brands are doing or is it just a text to say that the alarm has been trigged?
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I tried to set my email information but it doesn't work. I set the email addresses for the sender and receiver, my smtp server, my user name and password for the authentication (which is without SSL) and when I test it it doesn't work and I got an error message.
@Bubbah Your blog is great. I have mentioned it to Foscam, I don't know if they really care but I think they should some times to look at it and why not to bring they own comments. It will be good to have a special part with bugs and suggested improvements that Foscam could do. For example I saw another brand of indoor IP cameras which has a lot of interested functions like working in Java (accessing with any browsers and any OS), the alarm area can be selected on the picture like a door, a window,etc.
When the alarm is triggered, it sends emails with attached pictures and they have a lot of other interesting functions. It will be cool if Foscam could develop a bit more their system and listen their users.
FinDavid (like there are several Davids here). @David On an alarm, it sends an Email with 6 attachments.
Each is a Picture. I have mine set to be 1 second apart and it's fairly accurate plus/minus or so. Each pic is about 20kbytes in size. When I have it set to send pictures using FTP, it sends approximately 50 or so pictures; one after the other (it actually connects to the FTP site 50 times, uploading 1 picture on each connect). Yeah- what makes it vary in number. Each picture is about 20k bytes or so depending on its complexity. So the math says 50.20k = 1Meg per Alarm (give or take).
I know little about the Authentication and/or SSL. But play with it.
See what you can do. @All: At the risk of sounding like a salesman for Foscam and possibly being a little bit off-topic, I'd like to state how fond I am of this camera. I entered into this back in November/December of '09. Looking for a way to get surveillance video on my home while I'm away. I knew nothing of IP addresses other than they existed for some mystical reason or another.
Email, about the same. And FTP was some strange incantation used by wizards and sorcerers. I now have four different 'video-servers' (hmmm does that qualify me as a bonified Gadget Victim?) and of all of them, this little Foscam gets my top rating. I don't mean to scare anyone about the 'other' devices but the Foscam is the easiest to use, easiest to set up, easiest to configure and the most reliable I have.
I have one Single-unit video web server and two 4ch DVRs with Network ability and they all are a royal pain in the uh. Neck to get to work right. This Foscam offers the best of all of them.
It has both Email and FTP and can do both. It has motion detection. It's also WiFi. It can be easily configured via its.CGI tools. It has remote I/O contacts.
PLUS - it's PAN and TILT. PLUS - it's the only one I have that doesn't REQUIRE Internet Explorer. Granted - I have a wish-list for it but for the price, I wish I'd skipped on the 4ch DVRs and gotten a few more Foscams. Isn't hindsight wonderful? David ps If I am too off-topic, I do apologize and will refrain from such in the future. Hi Bubbah, I do not want to have my PC running 24/7 and just want the FI8908W to send me an email with lots of images on motion detection as a poor-mans alarm/security system. I can't find definitive answers in the FI8908W product manual or on Internet forums, can you please answer the following questions re the FI8908W?
I'd prefer to know before buying. Does the FI8908W require a PC to detect motion and send email with images? When motion is detected, how many images are sent per email?
Can 10, 20 or more images be sent per email on motion detect? Usually if only 1 image it will probably miss the intruder. Can the number of images per email be changed?
Can the time between images on motion detection be varied? Like 10 images 100 milliseconds apart. Will it send an email every time motion is detected or will it only send 1 email, then wait a set period of minutes before sending another email to stop email inbox flooding? I also want to be able to use a remote control to power off the unit, probably by simply cutting the 5v power supply, will the camera lose its motion detection settings or pan/tilt positioning after a cold start?
Any answers and suggestions would be appreciated. @shane You don't need a pc, the ip camera is already a self-sufficient little linux-based computer. The camera emails 6 pictures upon motion detection. You can't change this. The Alarm service settings section allows you to specify the upload interval in seconds. There's also a scheduler to have the motion detection armed only when you're away.
The motion detection sensitivity can be adjusted. If you cut the power, the camera will retrieve its settings when restarting. However by default does an initial rotation, kind of self-test, and loose the previous position. But you can disable that behaviour by sending a CGI command through the browser's url, like this: You'll find other shorcuts like this one in this blog. Hello I cannot access my new Foscam 8908 in Vista IE8.I have tried everything and keep coming up with the dreaded DVMIPOCam2.ocx being blocked along with unknown publisher.I have another Linksys IP camera that uses ActiveX and have no problems.I can access either camera on my Mac or PC using Firefox or Chrome but have limited control over functions.Could anyone please help an old and obviously not to smart Canadian. P.s.thanks to Bubbah for this wonderful forum for all levels of expertise.
Thanks in advance Ron [email protected]. Hello, after reading everyones comments and looking at multiple guides I too cannot get my Foscam to work on my wireless network. I am using a Linksys Wireless N router (WRT160Nv2) with WEP 128bit encryption (Wi-Fi Protected Setup). The router is backwards compatible and I do not want to 'downgrade' it to BG because I have other wireless devices that use N.
Like everyone else, It runs fine connected directly, I setup my wireless settings on the camera using the same setting as my wireless router, I set the Authentication to 'open system' and tried 'share key', click submit, then take out the network cable before it starts to move (a few seconds after submitting). The green light then goes from a slow blink to a fast blink but the 'IP Camera Tool' shows no camera and I cannot connect to the IP in my browser. I'm Camera Firmware Version 11.14.1.46, and this is the latest driver on foscam.com from what I could find. I must have spent 10hrs trying to get this to work wireless and its frustrating how difficult it is to set this up. Thanks for your support Bubbah, and others on this thread.
Hi Bubbah I recently bought Dlin DCS5220 ip cam and connected it wirelessly to Dlink DIR- 655. I have sentup the ddns account on the router and able to access it via the ddns account for a few min. However the camera is inaccessable after a few minutes via the ddns account and continues to be avaible on the lan ip. Once i restart the camera, again it is available for few minutes via the ddns account before being not accessable. I have also setup update client.
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Please help as i need the camera for monitoring my house. Regards - Manaktala. @Manaktala I've been dealing with another Dlink ip cam from that had lots of connectivity issues due to bugs(DCS-950G). So check that you have the latest firmware for both the ipcam and the router.
Also check if you need to adjust the update interval the ddns settings of your router. That defines how often your assigned external ip is sent to DynDns.org. It needs to match what returns 'www.whatsmyip.org'.
Setting up the ddns from the router as you do is the best approach but, if it still doesn't work, maybe try setting this up directly from the ip cam (at least as a test). It may help you finding the cause of the problem. I have had my Foscam FI8908W for about a year and I'm very happy with it.
Today I had it pulled up on the web at work and my supervisor walks by and decides she wants to play with it. I didn't notice at some point while she was rotating it clockwise she was holding down the mouse button for a long time after it had rotated to the limit. Now it appears to be stuck. It will rotate back to the right about 10-15 degrees but then stops.
I tried unplugging the unit and replugging, also rebooting from the web. I am afraid to rotate it by hand don't want to strip out the gears. It is mounted on the ceiling. I'm really bummed I hope the camera isn't ruined:(.
@vxderror32 You'll probably need to risk it and re-center the camera manually. It's not made for that but at least I can say that mine survived a!rough!
Rotation by hand from my son once or twice. What I would do: - bring it to full left and power off - while powered off, re-center gently by hand - Power on and check - repeat the procedure to adjust further However, expect it to happen again since it is not normal that the camera didn't stop at the normal end of rotation. You might need to inspect the inside one day. Here is a (credit goes to Paillassou). OK thks, seems not to be so complicated!:-) last question (hope so.). I have 2 Foscam, one internal, one external.
All is OK (view from local link, email alert, view through iPhone) except one thing. I create a Dyndns address and from my office (outside my home link), I can only connect me to the internal cam (cam1salon) but impossible to connect me to the external one (cam2garage). Of the cams are: cam1salon: IP address 192.168.1.55 HTTP Port 80 cam2garage: IP address 192.168.1.56 HTTP Port 80 here is what I inputed in my router: Application Ext.Port Int.Port IP address cam1salon 80 80 192.168.1.55 cam2garage 81 80 192.168.1.56 for both, Protocal TCP and Dyndns OK. Do so you where is the problem? Thks a lot for all your support Fabrice. Hi Bubbah Hoping you can help a newbie Foscam user at the limits of his technical knowledge! I have a new FI8905W.
I've followed your guide to getting it working wirelessly - wired is all good, found the wifi router, unplugged it at the right time during reset. But then I can't see it wirelessly. The thing that is confusing me is that I can see the MAC address in the wireless client list of the router - which suggests the connection is working, but it won't come up in the DHCP table. Router is a BT Voyager 2110. @callcottstreet Just a few ideas, - ensure to unplug the Ethernet within the first 10 seconds of the reboot countdown. make sure that it's the Wifi MAC shown, not the Ethernet - If the router sees the Wifi MAC, then it could be that you have some MAC adress filtering active on your router.
can you force that MAC address into your DHCP table manually? - was the router detected with the Scan button under the Wireless settings? Or entered manually?
- try w/o encryption maybe (as a test only) - avoid special characters for camera Alias name, and keep it short. also try with the camera beside the router in case you'd have an issue with the antenna.
I hope this helps. Have a brandnew Foscam FI8918W connected wirelessly to a Livebox router. With IP tools on my laptop (also connected wirelessly to the router) I can control the FOSCAM (motion, video). It works well. Remotely (iPhone, Safari browser) I can access my router using a xxx.dyndns.org address and also my FOSCAM UI, if I mention a specific port. However, when I use either FOSCAM Surveillance Pro or Livecams on my iPhone I get an “Unauthorized access” on the latter, and a clouded sun on the former.
With a simple webcam attached via USB to my laptop, Livecams gives beautiful images, with the same DDNS address. @Gustavo Someone else posted a similar problem after upgrading a clone from DealExtreme ( ) I see 2 possible reasons: - the ip cameras sold by DX are well known to all have the same MAC address, so only one camera at a time could be use on the same subnet.
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Foscam has done a great deal of effort to prevent clones from using its firmwares and latest version probably check for a specific key stored on a chip in the newer Foscam models. To rule out the first cause, you'd just need to turn off the other camera and delete its entry from the router's DHCP, then try again with the troublesome one.
Wow - what a great, and helpful site! But am unable to find a solution to my problem: I have a remote camera in France - and had to set up port forwarding using dyndns.org (as the French IP SFR does not have a stactic IP) it all seemed OK but now I am back home, and looking forward to seeing the video - it only works for a few seconds at a time and then I get an error: Error 102 (net::ERRCONNECTIONREFUSED): The server refused the connection.
This is using windows7 and Google Chrome (IE dosent seem to want to know at all) See it all here: any ideas or help apreciated. Thanks Raymondo.
IP Camera Viewer 2 app allows to monitor and record video from IP Cameras. It allows to easily setup recording video on schedule, or events only (Motion Detection). Once the cameras are setup for recording, you could quickly search recorded video and export incidents as movies or just images. Many popular cameras are supported: Axis, ACTi, Agasio, Anbash, Arecont, Airlink101, Basler, BlueJay, Bosch, Canon, CNB, Cisco, Compro, D-Link, Dericam, Digitus, Edimax, EyeSpy247, Foscam, hama, Hootoo, iCanTek, IPUX, Linksys, Loftek, Marmitek, Mobotix, Panasonic, Sony, Sanyo, Sharx, Solwise, StarDot, Tenvis, Toshiba, TP-Link, TRENDNet, Ubiquiti, Vivotek, VCS, Wanscam, Y-Cam, Zmodo and more. In addition, the generic camera types allow to support many other cameras: ONVIF-compatible cameras, RTSP and MJPEG Streams. Audio monitoring and recording is available for compatible cameras. Recording of video and detection of Motion is available for any camera model.
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Please send requests and feedback to [email protected]. F Bearden I currently have 28 ip cameras that I monitor from my macbook pro.
I originally had the ipcamera viewer software but they quit upgrading it with new camera profiles so I had to get the ipcamera viewer 2 software because I got a newer camera and they only supported it on the ipcamera viewer 2 software. Now I have another newer camera and its not supported on this software but supposedley it is on the ipcamera recorder software so your telling me I have to buy yet another version of your software to monitor my cameras and pay an additional fee for each camera even though I do not want to record from them? I will find another solution somewhere else. Also, why does this software put such a strain on my cpu? I can view twice as many cameras on my ipad at the same time with no problem yet looking at the same cameras from my mac book pro with intel i7 sends my cpu usage over%120?
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I have sent multiple questions to the developer asking if they will upgrade the software to support newer cameras but have not recieved a reply. The developers must have left this app for dead. No support, they dont return emails, and its beeen nearly a year since this app has had an update, its still at version 1.0! I do not reccomend anybody to by this software or any software from this developer until they change the way they do business. Oh how I wish the developers of the live cams pro ios app would develop a mac app.
I currently have 28 ip cameras that I monitor from my macbook pro. I originally had the ipcamera viewer software but they quit upgrading it with new camera profiles so I had to get the ipcamera viewer 2 software because I got a newer camera and they only supported it on the ipcamera viewer 2 software. Now I have another newer camera and its not supported on this software but supposedley it is on the ipcamera recorder software so your telling me I have to buy yet another version of your software to monitor my cameras and pay an additional fee for each camera even though I do not want to record from them? I will find another solution somewhere else. Also, why does this software put such a strain on my cpu? I can view twice as many cameras on my ipad at the same time with no problem yet looking at the same cameras from my mac book pro with intel i7 sends my cpu usage over%120?
I have sent multiple questions to the developer asking if they will upgrade the software to support newer cameras but have not recieved a reply. The developers must have left this app for dead.
No support, they dont return emails, and its beeen nearly a year since this app has had an update, its still at version 1.0! I do not reccomend anybody to by this software or any software from this developer until they change the way they do business.
Oh how I wish the developers of the live cams pro ios app would develop a mac app. Brianbslp I love to pull this app up when I'm on my iMac and see all my cameras. I have many different cameras like Foscam/D-link/Agasio which all work and the pan/tilt work with them too. However, I recently got a Tenvis 2013 and this camera caused a major issue with this software as it would continue to attempt to bring up an image and I would have to Force Quit the program. I contacted DComplex and they responded immediately with a recommendation and are attempting to fix this problem. Tq defiler latest version download. Even with this minor issue for me I would purchase this application again and again. The only other wish I might have is to be able to add some public WebCams like our local traffic cams.
Maybe you can already do this I just haven't figured it out yet. I love to pull this app up when I'm on my iMac and see all my cameras. I have many different cameras like Foscam/D-link/Agasio which all work and the pan/tilt work with them too. However, I recently got a Tenvis 2013 and this camera caused a major issue with this software as it would continue to attempt to bring up an image and I would have to Force Quit the program. I contacted DComplex and they responded immediately with a recommendation and are attempting to fix this problem. Even with this minor issue for me I would purchase this application again and again.
The only other wish I might have is to be able to add some public WebCams like our local traffic cams. Maybe you can already do this I just haven't figured it out yet. Traj I am using 2 cameras in my set up. The Axis was detected automatically by this app. The Trendnet camera was connected manually, but it was a simple process. I have both set up to record on motion and with face detection.
That whole set up took 5 minutes at the most. It is working flawlessly. This is a simple layout which is customizable to the amount of cameras you have.
I paid the $1.99 to add the recording capability of my second camera. It would be nice to have the ability to save the files to a location other than the Movies folder, especially since I have a huge external drive. Another want, is the ability to FTP an image, either during an event or at a set interval. I'm looking forward to how this will improve.
I am using 2 cameras in my set up. The Axis was detected automatically by this app. The Trendnet camera was connected manually, but it was a simple process. I have both set up to record on motion and with face detection. That whole set up took 5 minutes at the most.
It is working flawlessly. This is a simple layout which is customizable to the amount of cameras you have. I paid the $1.99 to add the recording capability of my second camera. It would be nice to have the ability to save the files to a location other than the Movies folder, especially since I have a huge external drive. Another want, is the ability to FTP an image, either during an event or at a set interval.
I'm looking forward to how this will improve.
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