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iCam Support / Re: iCam on private LAN (WiFi) with NO Internet access

« on: July 14, 2013, 05:53:06 PM »

Yeah in our case we don't have the option of stringing cable, essentially, but we do have a plan to test a 5 GHz microwave-based A/V solution that one of our people (an electrical engineer) has. That might do the trick. It just kills me that NOBODY makes it possible to use a nice, fast, ready-to-go wireless network to just get this done. It's all right there! But nope, always HAVE to have Internet access. Arg!

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iCam Support / Re: iCam on private LAN (WiFi) with NO Internet access

« on: July 14, 2013, 02:11:22 PM »

Thanks for the suggestions so far, and indeed maybe we should just look into buying a simple IP camera that can do both audio and video, and use that. But am I right to say that even connecting THAT to iCam would require Internet connectivity? We could use other software instead of iCam/iCamSource, I suppose, to use the IP camera with no Internet.

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iCam Support / iCam on private LAN (WiFi) with NO Internet access

« on: July 14, 2013, 09:22:50 AM »

Greetings,

I had pinned all my hopes on iCam to accomplish the following but it appears it won't. I have a LAN. The LAN has WiFi for local, LAN-only traffic. It's a completely private network. There is no Internet access whatsoever--just a LAN.

I need to use iCam to be able to share video/audio from one room to another. A presentation in Room A needs to be viewed in Room B (overflow seating room). But again, this is LAN-only and we have NO Internet access.

iCam on the iPad with iCamSource on the Mac works perfectly...if I have Internet access. If not, it cannot connect. I had hoped that because it "doesn't use iCam servers" and such, and is "peer to peer" that I could indeed be connecting iCam <-> iCamSource purely on their direct, private IP addresses, with no need at all for the Internet. Not so.

Is there any way whatsoever to set up, fake, or somehow "hack" together a connection so that iCam can use iCamSource on a private LAN with NO Internet access at all?

Thanks.

Blueline