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I bought one on Groupon. My girlfriend is OCD about did we close the garage door so I set it up in there so we can verify it's closed and since it's pan tilt you can see most of the garage with it.
Getting it on the wireless is cake the problem is setting it up for external viewing when you're not on your own network. I watched a Youtube, I read several Amazon reviews, comments on the FOScam site, in the end, simply following the manual shockingly worked.
About an hour in I discovered my Xfinity Gateway doesn't current work with Dynamic DNS which was half the topic on Youtube how to set up an account and do all that. Luckily I chose a free one at No Ip so no money spent. I figured out how to do Port Forwarding on my gateway, the problem is nowhere in there does it have a place to put your external IP, I hoped it was there automatically but you're never sure. I tried connecting with my phone disconnected from wireless but it didn't work.
ONe hour with Comcast, all he changed was he activated PNP which I don't think matters. Basically he was reading off instructions and he didn't understand the difference between internal and external IP addresses. He kept telling me my ip was 10.0.0. something which is actually how you connect to the gateway. The camera had a slightly different 10. address and then I had to assign it a port(2000) so when I go to my EXTERNAL IP address the gateway automatically forwards me to that port. He finally decided he couldn't help me more and told me to call FOSCam but they're closed for the night.
Then in my 3rd reading of a review on Amazon I finally noticed someone said "make sure when reading the manual you remember you MUST use http:// before the IP address and
ort# after it or it will NOT work. So I typed in my IP address like that and voila, I can connect to my camera and see my garage!
Works from work computer and cell phone will setup a link on my girlfriends iPhone and then we're good. You have to have a power source to plug it into and it has to be able to connect to your wireless or ethernet but otherwise you can put it anywhere in the house internal or external. I may eventually buy some more. They have lights so in a dark room the light comes out works and it's fully pan tilt and controllable even from the phone.
It's definitely not easy to set up, apparently they make some that come with their own address so you just somehow assign that address to port forward to the internal IP address your network assigns the camera.
Pretty cool. Obviously if you lose power or internet, your camera won't work but still pretty cool.
Getting it on the wireless is cake the problem is setting it up for external viewing when you're not on your own network. I watched a Youtube, I read several Amazon reviews, comments on the FOScam site, in the end, simply following the manual shockingly worked.
About an hour in I discovered my Xfinity Gateway doesn't current work with Dynamic DNS which was half the topic on Youtube how to set up an account and do all that. Luckily I chose a free one at No Ip so no money spent. I figured out how to do Port Forwarding on my gateway, the problem is nowhere in there does it have a place to put your external IP, I hoped it was there automatically but you're never sure. I tried connecting with my phone disconnected from wireless but it didn't work.
ONe hour with Comcast, all he changed was he activated PNP which I don't think matters. Basically he was reading off instructions and he didn't understand the difference between internal and external IP addresses. He kept telling me my ip was 10.0.0. something which is actually how you connect to the gateway. The camera had a slightly different 10. address and then I had to assign it a port(2000) so when I go to my EXTERNAL IP address the gateway automatically forwards me to that port. He finally decided he couldn't help me more and told me to call FOSCam but they're closed for the night.
Then in my 3rd reading of a review on Amazon I finally noticed someone said "make sure when reading the manual you remember you MUST use http:// before the IP address and
ort# after it or it will NOT work. So I typed in my IP address like that and voila, I can connect to my camera and see my garage!Works from work computer and cell phone will setup a link on my girlfriends iPhone and then we're good. You have to have a power source to plug it into and it has to be able to connect to your wireless or ethernet but otherwise you can put it anywhere in the house internal or external. I may eventually buy some more. They have lights so in a dark room the light comes out works and it's fully pan tilt and controllable even from the phone.
It's definitely not easy to set up, apparently they make some that come with their own address so you just somehow assign that address to port forward to the internal IP address your network assigns the camera.
Pretty cool. Obviously if you lose power or internet, your camera won't work but still pretty cool.
