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Tech help? Trying to get a webcam accessible from anywhere on the web

Trying to build myself some home security chops.

As a first step I bought one of these cheapo Foscam knock-off IP cameras:

http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Internet-Surveillance-Microphone-mon...

And with a bit of a learning curve got it set up and accessible from any browser on my home network.

Kind of stuck as to the next step . . . received overwhelming advice on a Mac forum that left me not knowing what to do next. It seems I need a static IP? And my only option is to use a paid service? Someone recommended I sign up with https://www.no-ip.com/ wich I did last night, but no idea what to do next.  Looking for some handholding.

I look forward to being able to help others through this process :-)

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Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on August 21, 2012 at 12:32am

Okey Dokey, done with all that. Thank you kindly for your menschlichkeit.

You've got that rare combo of tech aptitude and communication skills. If you don't make a lot of money, you should. Unless you don't want to.

Now-- don't I need to do something like open a port, tell something which IP the camera is at, etc.?

Would be cool if I could test this from work tomorrow.

Permalink Reply by Albert on August 21, 2012 at 1:03am

The Virtual Server  option is under Advance setting - WAN

Service name: whatever
Port Range: 8080 should work fine
IP address: the ip of the webcam (most likely starts with 192.168..... or 10.0......)

Local Port: The port of the webcam 

Protocol: TCP

Protocol No: Leave empty

hit add and apply

you should be able to access it with http://your_host.dyndns.org:8080/


h' said:

Okey Dokey, done with all that. Thank you kindly for your menschlichkeit.

You've got that rare combo of tech aptitude and communication skills. If you don't make a lot of money, you should. Unless you don't want to.

Now-- don't I need to do something like open a port, tell something which IP the camera is at, etc.?

Would be cool if I could test this from work tomorrow.

Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on August 21, 2012 at 1:27am

What did I do wrong?

http://myhost.dyndns.org:8080 returns "server not found"
http://myhost.dyndns.org:80 gives me a login to the router.

http://myhost.dyndns.org gives me a login to the router.

Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on August 21, 2012 at 1:30am

Success!!!! I never saved the configuration under "virtual server."

Thank you thank you thank you!

Permalink Reply by James BlackHeron on August 21, 2012 at 10:13am

How much did it cost to buy the account at Dyn?  

Sorry I couldn't help but I went to bed early so I could get up EARLY for CX practice.  It didn't seem to help as I was tired as crap.


What cameras did you get and are you happy with them so far?  I'd love to put some into my own garage so I would be less scared of storing nicer stuff out there. 

Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on December 3, 2012 at 7:01pm

Sorry I remember seeing this but never responded apparently.

Dyn account= $20/year.

Indoor camera:

 http://www.amazon.com/Wansview-Wireless-Surveillance-Microphone-mon...

Just bought:

http://www.amazon.com/Agasio-A602W-Auto-Brightness-Adjustment-Night...

Yes, happy, for the price. It remains to be seen how the outdoor one holds up outdoors.

I would strongly recommend one of these for your garage situation, however, for all of $18.

http://www.harborfreight.com/wireless-driveway-alert-system-93068.html



James BlackHeron said:

How much did it cost to buy the account at Dyn?  

Sorry I couldn't help but I went to bed early so I could get up EARLY for CX practice.  It didn't seem to help as I was tired as crap.


What cameras did you get and are you happy with them so far?  I'd love to put some into my own garage so I would be less scared of storing nicer stuff out there. 

Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on December 3, 2012 at 7:03pm

Paging Albert!!! Or anyone who can help.

I have a second camera I would like to make accessible via the web.... no clue how to proceed. Do I assign it a different port? Do I need a new host name with the dns service or can I use the same one?

Permalink Reply by David on December 3, 2012 at 7:30pm

You don't need a new host name with the dns service.   

Just go to the Virtual Server section on *your* router and do something similar to what you did with the first.

Service name: whatever
Port Range: 8081  (anything other than 8080, which you used last time)
IP address: the ip of the second webcam (most likely starts with 192.168..... or 10.0......)

Local Port: The port of the second webcam  (it's OK if this is identical to the first webcam)

Protocol: TCP

Protocol No: Leave empty

 

PS.  I'm kind of assuming that these are standalone webcams with their own IP addresses.  If they're attached to single computer, you'll have to use different ports.

 



h' said:

Paging Albert!!! Or anyone who can help.

I have a second camera I would like to make accessible via the web.... no clue how to proceed. Do I assign it a different port? Do I need a new host name with the dns service or can I use the same one?

Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on December 3, 2012 at 7:46pm

Thanks. This is what I needed.. already randomly tried it with port 81 and port range 8081 (can I do that?) but no go; however now I can't get to the camera directly via its IP (192.168.1.15) so I think I'd better solve that first.

Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on December 3, 2012 at 8:01pm

OK turns out the camera's IP is different than it was last night.... last night it was at 192.168.1.14 wired and 192.168.1.15 wireless, and now it's at 192.168.1.4 wired and 182.168.1.5 wireless.

I have it working via port 80 and port range 8081, but I don't understand why the IP slot changed-- it's always been 1.56 for the other camera. Is this going to be a problem?

Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on December 16, 2012 at 11:40pm

Me again.....  same problem still, haven't spent any more time on it-- camera gets assigned random slots in the router, and I can no longer access it from the 'net.  I can go into the router controls, specify the 'new' location of the camera, and access it from the 'net until the next time it gets moved to a different IP.

It looks like there's a place in the camera's interface to specify an IP location.  I uncheck "obtain IP from DHCP server" and this dialogue opens up:

Have tried entering the current and a desired IP in the top field and hitting "submit" but I get a simple "illegal parameter" error. Guess I don't know what goes in the other fields, or if I'm on the right track here at all.

Permalink Reply by John Durham on December 17, 2012 at 12:15am

Enter the IP address you want (probably a 192.168.x.x address) and then the subnet mask will be 255.255.255.0, the gateway is the IP of your router which is most likely 192.168.1.1 .  The DNS server info is probably not needed, but you can enter it you wish.

You can look at the network properties of your home PC and get that info (gateway, subnet mask and DNS server) by typing "CMD" in the Run field and when the command prompt opens, type "ipconfig" and press enter. This will display all the info you need.

Hope this helps.

h' said:

Me again.....  same problem still, haven't spent any more time on it-- camera gets assigned random slots in the router, and I can no longer access it from the 'net.  I can go into the router controls, specify the 'new' location of the camera, and access it from the 'net until the next time it gets moved to a different IP.

It looks like there's a place in the camera's interface to specify an IP location.  I uncheck "obtain IP from DHCP server" and this dialogue opens up:

Have tried entering the current and a desired IP in the top field and hitting "submit" but I get a simple "illegal parameter" error. Guess I don't know what goes in the other fields, or if I'm on the right track here at all.

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