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Bah, got my wireless camera working in the house at last, for the first time since we went over to BT HomeHub and all the settings changed, and what happens the very same day? The IPOD stopped working. I suspect Apple monitor the blog and heard about me being easily swayed into buying a new IPOD...
I've got internets again on the IPAQ though, that is good, and with some help from Itchypaws and this article about the camera I've got the camera streaming direct to Windows Media Player on the PC, but not yet to Windows Media on the IPAQ, which would be great. Also not got it streaming to anything else yet, nor to anywhere outside the house, as my dynamic DNS has expired.
Before you know it I'll be streaming security footage from our flat to my new IPOD though, you just know it.
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I keep meaning to setup a streaming camera in the flat - to detect burglarisation or to spy on the neighbours.
Does your camera hook straight into the internet?
Muddyfunkster :: 16 May :: 2007 :: Comment / reply
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The camera itslf has a web server built in, so you just need to connect it up to your router and you're away, in theory.
My camera is a Linksys WVC54G and they don't make it any more. I'd not recommend this one anyway as connecting to it with anything other than internet explorer or the provided software, it's not easy, it's not very open. Linksys had no interest in upgrading the firmware or supporting other web browsers or anything, you can't even get an image from the camera, only an mpeg4 stream.
If you do any investigating and get one let me know.
