<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Bobby Gill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobbygill@rogers.com">bobbygill@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I'd like to setup a webcam or two around the house and my office, and have it viewable via the net from any box. Anyone here done this or have any ideas? I'm googling of course, but I can't go without asking ye Mythlist experts :)</blockquote>
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<div>I use an Axis 207W IP cam. I used zoneminder for about 2 years with it. Zoneminder is a great program with very good stability - and I think that it crashed exactly once in two years of using it. Wonderful functionality in terms of motion detection and recording 'events'.</div>
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<div>In the end I stopped using zoneminder for two reasons.</div>
<div>1. The axis cam I bought had both an ethernet (wired) and wireless connection. The wireless connection works well, but the occasional 'glitch' in the wireless network took the camera offline for ZM. This meant a ethernet connection going to the camera rather than using the wireless functionality which limited placement slightly.</div>
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<div>2. The axis camera has a built-in webserver with password protection. So I reroute a port from my router to port 80 of the IP address of the camera (in my case I just re-route port 81 to 80) and using dyndns can log into the camera and get a great video feed using any browser from whereever I am. Works great with an iPhone and it's amazing logging in from somewhere across the world on a beach and getting a live feed. At the end of the day I just wanted the ability to log in and view what was happening, rather than worrying too much about motion detection and setting off alarms. And in this scenario the wireless works great, there's no load on a server, and as long as the network is up - it works a treat.</div>
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