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RobbySkateboard

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can some one help me with my pan/tilt camera?
« on: October 27, 2011, 01:12:27 PM »
okay, so I have the foscam fi8918w or whatever it is (same one you guys tested) and I've had it for about 4 months or so and it's just been sitting useless because I couldn't figure out how to get it set up outside of my network. But seeing this update to icam (one of my favorite apps) has made me decide to make it work finally. I can use it on my own wifi network by going to http://192.168.1.19/ and I tried the http://192.168.1.19/snapshot.cgi and the video.cgi along with the just plain old http://192.168.1.19/ one but to no avail (as I expected because it has to be more complicated than that) but it showed up in icamsource and showed me what my ip cam was seeing live 2 out of the 3 urls (the /video and /snapshot) but it wouldn't push through to my iphone. My iphone connects to my two usb webcams in the house but then says something in a pop up that it can't connect to my ip cam (it's not showing the message now so I don't know exactly what it says). Can anyone help me, I'd really like to get this pan tilt cam to work finally!

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Re: can some one help me with my pan/tilt camera?
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2011, 07:43:28 PM »
What error message are you seeing when you are unable to connect: No Sources Found, Broker Connection Error, or Source Connection Error?

If you're seeing the Source Connection Error, have you tried checking the Auto-Config Router checkbox in the iCamSource before clicking the Start button? If it still doesn't work with that option enabled, please let me know what status message appears next to the Auto-Config Router checkbox in iCamSource.

Our new iCam Help Troubleshooting section also contains some additional information about what to try when you are unable to connect from outside of your local WiFi network:
http://skjm.com/icam/help/troubleshooting.php#icam3

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Re: can some one help me with my pan/tilt camera?
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2011, 04:44:30 PM »
Hi,
to use pan/tilt in iCamSource with the Foscam FI8918W you should use the url: http://192.168.1.19/video.cgi
To solve the issue with the broken connection, try changing port settings in your router as written in skjm-support.

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