Devildog

Hoping the scoobynet knowledgebase will help here.

Basically looking for a remote access camera for the house so I can keep an eye on things remotely from pc/smartphone/tablet.

Needs to be a wireless connection to the router due to location, for domestic use. Power supply to the camera itself not a problem

Any thoughts?

Cheers

An0n0m0us

Foscam - used one for years and a superb and cheap bit of kit. There is a dedicated app for apple devices for foscam cameras (surveillance pro) which again has been around years and regularly developed and improved as well as there being android apps that work fine with them.

www.foscam.co.uk

DJ Dunk

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I use a couple of Foscam FI8910W's. The FI9821W is 720p if you need a higher resolution.

Simple to set up, good in the dark and nice and responsive.

Devildog

Dumb question -presumably the foscam units work as a stand alone unit and don't need to be connected to a pc?

Cheers

LostUser

Another vote for Foscam. I've got the 9820 which was the first 720P camera Foscam did I think. Picture is very good quality.

The latest equivalent model is the 9821 I think. These are indoor cameras which are wireless but need a power supply. You can sit them in the window looking outwards but this will only work during the day. The cameras have Infra-Red for night vision but the IR will bounce off the window and blind the camera at night. If the camera was only used to show an internal picture (as in not facing out of the window) the night vision would work.

These models do have an SD card built-in for recording but obviously if the camera or SD card is stolen the evidence is gone.

As above, you don't need a PC to run the camera but you will need one to initially configure it.

You can set up the camera to email pictures on motion detection

Dingdongler

I'm surprised that one of the resident scoobynet nut jobs hasn't accused you 'of living in fear'

tony de wonderful

Have you dug your escape tunnel yet?

hodgy0_2

I assumed it was to spy on his wife

That's what I use mine for

Adrian F

According to some reviews on Amazon these Foscam wifi are easy to hack on wifi and give access to your network and the images

RobsyUK

iTrader: (2)

If your spying on wives you have to upload evidence here for cross examination.

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

No different to any device if you don't keep your firmware up to date and at the very least change the admin password on the device

Devildog

Indeed..

No, its to keep an eye on one of my Rotties. So living in fear not really an issue

Dingdongler

More evidence of you living in fear then

Does it really have to be wifi? Could you use a homeplug and run an ethernet cable to it? In that way you would effectively have a 'hard' connection and so no wifi connection issues

http://www.homeplugs.co.uk/acatalog/homeplugs.html

tony de wonderful

You can make one out of a Raspberry Pi and the Pi camera is anyone is geeky enough?

Devildog

Cheers but wifi connection not an issue. Will make sure firmware up to date and passwords all reset, etc.