I don't think that's the source of the problem. I wasn't having this problem before.
So, ICamSource started to act flaky after resetting it (e.g. stopped and restarted). I noticed that one of my cameras was not showing up on my iPhone through iCam. When I went to my desktop, iCamSource was running at 60% CPU utilization even with the detect motion setting slid all the way to Less Often. So, I stopped iCamSource. Interestingly, the CPU Utilization for iCamSource is still reading 50% even with iCamSource set to Stop.
Why would that be happening? Normally, with the Less Often setting, CPU Utilization is at 20%. To me, it sounds like one of the worker threads is having issues, probably when it can't connect to a network camera and it has to retry.
I am experiencing a problem that within 12 hrs, ICamSource is "Not Responding." What I mean by that is that when I go to my Win7 Desktop and open the instance of ICamSource that is running from the Systray, the ICamSource window opens, but does not fully paint. When I click on it, the Window Title displays (Not Responding). I had the version installed previous to 2.2.1, so I installed 2.2.1 hoping that would resolve the issue. No luck.
From ICam, what happens over this period of time, I can see all four of my cameras initially (first launch ICamSource). Eventually, I lose one camera and then all four (eg can't see them on my iPhone). no error messages. The cameras are fine as I can log into them and see video. So, it's not related to my camera or my network.
Any hints or tips for me to try to isolate where my issue is?
I'm curious about something. I thought I had read somewhere in the forums that you guys use this to monitor your homes (or something). Have you not run into similar issues? If not, what are you guys doing differently?
Yea. All of the cameras had the same userid, but two of them had the same password and the other two did not. So, I don't understand why that would cause iCam to fail to stay connected, though. If two cams had the same userid/password, then why would the other two (not being the same) cause the disconnect?
Doesn't matter, as I'm glad it's running. I don't like leaving my iMac running all the time (e.g. heat). If something is going to wear out, I want it to be my Windows box. Cheaper to replace components.
The problem was that the iCam Password for some of the cameras were different than the others. I re-typed them all, and it works now!
Might want to consider moving to having a single iCam Login/Password and using it for all cameras versus entering in an iCam login/password for each camera. Unless, of course, there's a reason to have them that way...
UPnP is enabled on the router. Tried turning the firewall off already.
I'm leaning more toward a code issue than a network issue. Just now I double tapped the Start/Stop button (don't ask, got impatient I guess) on preferences, my iPhone got a motion detection from my Windows iCamSource. I opened iCamSource and 2 of my 4 cameras came up. Then, after a few seconds, I got and error on my iPhone from iCam: Source Connection Error: one or more of the iCamSources returned by the iCam Broker Server could not be connected to.
Not sure I understand your comment about why it worked on my Mac and not my PC as I have multiple source on my PC. I have the same sources configured on both platforms. I just make sure that the Mac iCamSource is not running when the PC is, or vice versa.
Mac version of iCamSource is not running. Windows version of iCamSource is running and says it the title bar: Connected to Server. I have 4 cameras setup, and I can see video for all 4 cameras in iCamSource.
When I launch iCam on my iPhone, it displays the current error message: Source Connection Error One or more of the iCamSources returned by the iCam Broker Server could not be connected to.
I also tried connecting via iCamWeb. Num of Sources reported was 1, then after a few seconds, I got a dialog box that displayed the same error above.
I can stop the Windows version, launch the Mac version, and I have no problem viewing my cameras on my iPhone.
When I first loaded and ran v2.1.3 on Windows (Vista) it worked fine. I restarted it the other day and now even though iCamSource reports it is connected to the server, I can't reach it from iCam on my phone. I can run v2.1.2 on my iMac with no problems and iCam connects with no issues.
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