SkyIPCam 777W

[Merlin]

I have the SkyIPCam 777w camera and it's not half bad for night vision and looking remotely.  There is an issue however that it only pics up about half the images generated by the motion detection that my other cameras pickup.  I may get three images of someone walking around my front door when spending about 10 seconds wandering through.  This is either recorded, looking at it through the PC or on the iPhone.  Where as someone spending the same amount of time around my driveway I get 8-10 images.  The camera I have pointed at my driveway is the WVC80N camera.  I have set the better frame rate to the max to try to pickup more images on the 777, but to no avail.
Airlink has an app to view and record images from their cameras.  I looked at their results and much like the WVC80N I got multiple images.  Any suggestions for me in the setup?  Oh and I downloaded 2.2.3 as well yesterday.

Thanks,
Merlin

[SKJM Support]

What framerate and resolution is the camera configured for?  A high resolution image will require more processing.

Also, what MJPEG URL are you using and do you have the MJPEG or JPEG checkbox checked?

[Merlin]

These are my settings for the 777 camera:
Video Resolution:  VGA
Frame Rate:  AUTO
Video Quality:  Normal
My URL I use is:
http://xxx.xxx.x.xx/cgi/mjpg/mjpg.cgi
Oh and I have MJPEG selected

Merlin

[SKJM Support]

Please try setting your frame rate to a lower frame rate such as 5 fps.

[Merlin]

Catches about one more frame per person walking up to front door.  Still not as good as I would like to see it.

Merlin

[SKJM Support]

Each captured motion event image has the time-stamp, including milliseconds. Are the images half a second (500 ms) apart or longer?

[Merlin]

I walked slow to get as many as I could

Frame 1:  08:47:21.027
Frame 2:  08:47:26.688
Frame 3:  08:47:33.059
Frame 4:  08:47:35.233
Frame 5:  08:47:39.062
Frame 6:  08:47:45.928
Frame 7:  08:47:48.179
Frame 8:  08:47:49.996

Thanks...

[SKJM Support]

Make sure that the Perform Motion Detection slider is set to More Often. Also, are you seeing more than 1 frame per second from the camera in the iCamSource Preferences preview?

[Merlin]

I made sure the slider is on More Often.  In the past I had it 2/3 rds the way towards Most Often.  I had my son walk as I observed the viewer.  It was very fluid in its preview,  I saw more than 35 possilbe pictures of his walk (he did walk slow).  When I looked at the Motion Events.  There was 10. 

To better summarize what has occured.  I am now picking up images about every 1.5 seconds to 1.75 seconds with these settings.

When I sent you the post yesterday I was receiving images anywhere from 3 to 5 seconds.

Any suggestions on improving it more....?

Oh and my setting for frame rate is 2/3 rds away from Better Image Quality or 1/3 away from Frame Rate.

[SKJM Support]

Are you connecting from a remote network? If so then, the framerate is normal.  If the iPhone is on the same local network as the computer running iCamSource, then that framerate is still pretty slow.

[Merlin]

The iphone is on the same network as the iCamSource.  The other cameras just pickup even more images now with the settings we described.  There are just two differences....
1. The Airlink camera seems to be...let's say inconsistant.  Sometimes it doesn't even pick up right away.  Sometimes there are skips in the middle or at the end of the recording.  The Linksys WVC80N however seems to be picking up more and from beginning to end.  When observing the camera through the source, there are much more images that could be captured.
2. The settings now record even the slightess motion and I end up with numerous 1 frame no movement recordings and frames with 278 recordings.

Just to let you and anyone reading know I love this app.  Not complaining, just trying to get it right.

[SKJM Support]

What is the the % CPU usage of the iCamSource application? It is located in the Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor application?

Also, have you tried running the iCamSource with just the Airlink camera?

Thanks for that side note, we're glad to help.

[Merlin]

I looked in the Task Manager under Processes.  The CPU on this computer runs anywhere from 50 to 64.  Memory run anywhere from 43,000k to 84,000k. 

I will try to run the AirLink by itself and let you know.

[Merlin]

Running it by itself it works great.  With three other cameras still pretty good. After that it starts faltering.  I guess I went overboard with 6 cameras running on iCamSource.

[SKJM Support]

I'm glad you got it working!

Yes, the iCamSource does allow you to add up to 16 webcams from a single computer, but unfortunately your computer's hardware limitations can limit that number.

Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Thanks again!