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iCam Support / iCam, Skype and IP Cameras

« on: December 03, 2010, 03:44:52 AM »

I've had an intermittent problem with one of my IP cams, but I think that I may have found the issue.

The scenario is that I have 3 PC's on my home network plus an Apple Airport Express and Apple TV2 (both on the WiFi network).  One of the PC's - actually an eeePC Netbook - is on all the time running iCam Source.  I've got 2 WiFi IP cams on the network, on ports 80 and 81 and everything works faultlessly when I'm at home. However, when I'm away, the camera on port 80 fails regularly. I think that I've tied this failure down to when another PC starts up with Skype set to auto run. I believe that Skype also uses port 80.

Using remote access (LogMeIn) I've changed the port from 80 to 82 and so far the camera is behaving.  Testing continues, but I'm hoping that I've sorted this out.

Still very impressed with iCam. It works very well with the eeePC and its 2 USB webcams and the 2 IP cams. Remote viewing is via iPad and iPhone 4 both running iOS 4.2.

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Network / IP Camera Compatibility / Edimax IC-1510Wg works OK with iCam

« on: November 21, 2010, 06:57:41 AM »

I picked up an Edimax IC-1510Wg WiFi IP cam at Maplin here in the UK yesterday.  It was really easy to set up and it works a treat with iCam.  I did have a minor snag in that I couldn't actually view the camera video directly using IE or Firefox, but I could see it in the iCam preferences window and in the Edimax viewer program (an ActiveX issue I believe).  My setup now consists of an eeePC 901 on my WiFi network with 2 USB webcams, and the Edimax IC-1510Wg.

The Edimax camera replaces an old Hawking HNC290G that had a mind of its own and would constantly crash - not at iCam problem, it used to lock up using the Hawking monitoring software!  The Edimax was GBP79, but I've seen it a little cheaper on Ebay so I might get another one to provide more coverage.  The Edimax also works with other monitoring software such as the iPhone Cam Viewer.  I'd love to be able to use it with iSpy, but there isn't any way to add your own cameras.

I'm fairly certain that the network cabled version (IC-1510) would work OK with iCam too, as it looks to be identical minus the WiFi option.

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iCam Support / Motion Detection being switched on for all cams at same time?

« on: September 19, 2010, 08:36:42 AM »

Using iCamSource 2.1.1 with Win XP and iCam V3 on the iPhone and iPad.

When I activate Motion Detection via iCam, it is being switched on for both my USB webcams.  I'm sure that this was switched independently before.  For example, Motion Detection is off for both cams, I switch in on for the one watching the cat flap for testing and I end up with 30 minutes motion capture of me having lunch on the kitchen cam - not exactly compulsive viewing  

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iCam Support / Can I check the non-WIFI connection using iCamWeb

« on: September 03, 2010, 07:34:09 AM »

Hello Guys and Galls!

First post to the forum, but I've been following for a while.

Having great fun with the standard release iCam and iCamSource but the odd snag along the way. Here is where I am at:

- Running Windows XP

- Installed iCamSource on an eeePC 901 netbook that is connected to my home network by WiFi.   AVG Free AntiVirus and ZoneAlarm Free firewall installed.

- Got the system working fine on both WiFi and Internet and used my iPhone 4 and iPad to watch using iCam whilst I was away from home last week.  All good so far!

- As the eeePC only has a tiny solid state HD, I reset it to factory spec yesterday and reinstalled iCamSource, AVG Free, ZoneAlarm and it worked fine on WiFi

- I then installed iCamSource on the desktop that is connected to the wireless router by Cat 5 cable and set up a webcam on this PC.

- All working fine on WiFi

However, when I went out and fired up iCam on the iPhone, I could only see the webcam connected to the PC and not the one on the Netbook.  When I got back in range of the WiFi, I could see both cameras - odd!  I've exited iCamServer on the desktop just in case their is something odd going on between the desktop and the netbook.  Uninstalled iCamServer on the netbook and reinstalled.  It was working fine before I reset the netbook and I'm sure that I haven't done anything different with the installation, but I seem to have 'broken' the netbook connection.

The only thing that might be different, is that I haven't let the netbook do a Windows update.

I live in an area of very poor 3G connection and I'm trying to fault find by switching off the iPhone WiFi and trying to connect by 3G only, but the signal is rubbish.  I don't really want to have to drive to an area of good coverage just to see if the Internet connection is working.

A long lead in to a simple question, if I connect to the eeePC using iCamWeb, am I looking at the Internet feed, or the WiFi feed.  I've got iCamWeb running and I can see the webcam just fine.

Looking forward to V2 so that I can use multiple cameras from the one program.

Regards

Gary