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v2.8 of iCamSource drops support for WinXP.

I was hoping to use an older WinXP machine for "hosting" the iCamSource application. Can you advise why support was dropped?

Also, am I missing the requirements page for the iCamSource application?

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The DropBox route saves the images to both your hard drive AND your DropBox account, not just to your DropBox account.

Thanks for the tidbit.  Say, I am curious how you set yours up with DropBox, assuming you have.

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Dedicated DropBox account just for your iCam stuff, I assume? 

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Also, did you pay for an account or just go with the free allotment? 

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What do you plan to do when you near capacity on DropBox? 

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Any pitfalls you ran into using this method?


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Any update on how your system is performing with the now six cameras in use?

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I recently built a Windows XP Box with a 60GB SSD.  I would certainly prefer to leave the SSD as clean as possible.  Is anyone saving their images from iCamSource to a flash drive, instead of the main drive?  Has this presented any performance issues? 

As an alternative, I have seen Dropbox solutions in the past on this forum.  I guess that is a route to take, also.

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iCam Team:

I am curious if there have been any thoughts around developing server side software that runs on a low power server.  I am thinking of the Linux "plug" computers that have a small footprint (energy and physical space-wise).

On a related note, is there a Windows or OS X capable machine that has low cost and has low power requirements like the Linux "plug" machines?  I do know the latest Mac mini does have low power requirements.

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iCam Support / Re: CPU Usage
« on: December 18, 2010, 02:17:33 PM »
Jay - I will double check the message, as this one was snapped some time ago, but the events that elicit an error message are as follows:

1.  Wait for Motion Events list to populate (recently, has been taking a minute or greater).
2.  Either list will populate OR the aforementioned message (I believe it is this one), will appear.  Display returns to multi-view display of sources and the source that I was trying to view motion events for will say "Source Connection Closed" or "Connection Closed" and the view for that source will be blacked out.

My setup:
WinXP P4 machine w/1GB RAM.
Three Wi-Fi based MJPEG cameras; if necessary, I can double check how many images/second the camera is outputting for processing.

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Question missed:

Attachments not enabled on your forum.  May I ask why not?  It is just one more step, in my opinion and makes the board less useful.

Next point:
The graphic below was observed after these steps:
1.  Waiting for Motion Events list to populate (takes a long time with my setup).
2.  iPhone went to sleep.
3.  Unlocked iPhone, this is what appeared. 

Note:  I do observe a screen similar to this when system notifications appear when I am in the Motion Events screen in the past, but not in this specific case that I have documented here for you.

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iCam Support / Re: CPU Usage
« on: December 17, 2010, 03:47:01 PM »
Jay,

Here is the error message I receive fairly routinely with the Motion Events folder size set to 500MB:



The way these images are being fetched, could it not be improved?  I don't need to look at the older events often.  Couldn't the app just load the last 30 days of events or something?

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Jay,

<sigh>  Attachments not enabled on your forum.  May I ask why not?  It is just one more step, in my opinion and makes the board less useful.

I will be updating my other topic thread, but I have to wait so long for the Motion Events to appear, the iPhone (3GS) went to sleep.  When I unlocked the phone, here is what I saw:





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iCam Support / Re: USB Webcam / WiFi Network IP Camera Recommendations
« on: December 17, 2010, 02:55:16 PM »
Stefan - Thanks for the link.  Have any non-IR images from that same camera?

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iCam Support,

When I receive notifications from other applications on my iPhone while viewing iCam, the display goes to "heck".  Have you observed this behavior?

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iCam Support / Re: USB Webcam / WiFi Network IP Camera Recommendations
« on: December 12, 2010, 10:57:41 PM »
Stefan - Can we get a sample of the night vision shots from the cameras you have that have that capability?

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iCam Support / Re: CPU Usage
« on: November 03, 2010, 10:52:21 PM »
Jay,

No update on this issue.  I will keep you apprised if it raises again. 

Kurt

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I am interested in purchasing a night vision IP camera.  For those out there with such an IP camera, would you mind uploading an image or two from your camera(s).  I would love to see real-world examples of these types of cameras in use. 

I saw some talk about the Airlink brand.  It looks like they have reasonably-priced night vision cameras.  If anyone has that brand in particular, I would appreciate you providing a sample night vision image.


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