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iCam Support / Re: Frozen camera

« on: June 22, 2011, 09:04:59 AM »

I'm now having all kinds of errors in accessing the cameras since I set up the 1 hour restart. Would you mind sharing your batch file you use so I can see any differences?  I'm getting source connection errors and my CPU usage seems to have pegged at 100%.

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iCam Support / Re: Frozen camera

« on: June 18, 2011, 08:55:38 AM »

I'm trying to implement the workaround, but it sure want easy. Xp home version doesn't have the taskkill program to shut down Icam (only available on the pro edition) and then for whatever reason my clean installed pc didn't have the scheduling service running. I found a freeware replacement for task kill, fought xp for a long time with the batch file and such, and think it is finally running (time will tell).

Add an "periodic auto restart" of a particular web camera to my list of requests though.

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iCam Support / Re: Frozen camera

« on: June 15, 2011, 05:20:39 PM »

I tried updating the bios to the latest version, but didn't help.  I may try the workaround, but is there any logs or tracing I can send to support so they can fix this issue?

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iCam Support / Re: Frozen camera

« on: June 13, 2011, 05:33:27 PM »

The issue happened again. Same symptom, the internal laptop camera picture froze using the built in webcam, but the other USB camera continues to function normally. This was using the beta release of Icam source and I checked but no updated driver was available for the internal Dell mini 9 webcamera under xp. Curiously The light on the camera remains on, but when I switched the source to the working external camera and then back to the internal one, instead of a picture of the webcamera output there was just a grey screen where the image should be. The iPhone, however, continued displaying the static picture.

All sleep setting are turned off for the computer.

What's the next step in fixing this?  I'm frustrates as I want to use it for security.

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iCam Support / Re: Frozen camera

« on: June 11, 2011, 08:11:41 AM »

Will do I restarted the system and let windows perform all the updates. I also upgraded to the beta software.

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iCam Support / Frozen camera

« on: June 10, 2011, 01:35:00 PM »

Hi. I'm running the release version of Icam source. Today my camera built into the laptop didn't detect any motion when my wife walked by it, but the other (USB) webcamera did. I had my wife stand in front of the laptop (camera light is on) but the camera seems to have "frozen" and didn't show her.

I'm running this under xp with an Dell 9 netbook specifically for this task. Any ideas on how I can detect or prevent this problem in the future?