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13-08-2009, 07:58 AM
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| A shadowy flight.  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London/Herts
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| IP camera, iPhone, watching the kids... Hey all, could i check out the following please on behalf of a friend of mine - He wants to watch his son at home, with the nanny, whilst he's at work. Our work PCs have the usual ip filtering / blocking software/routers, and so there are many sites we can't access. He wants therefore to buy himself an iphone (more portable than a netbook and 3g card) and buy an ip camera, such as this Edimax, or possibly its bigger brother with the tilt / left & right motors etc. Does anyone do this? Is it as easy as it looks? Do edimax give you a static IP address to host a site on, or does it jsut use your home router? Thanks in advance System as shown, plus: Akasa 965 HSF. Griffin Powermate that pulsates blue! Solid oak computer desk. Diamondback Razor. Logitech media keyboard. Western Dig HD Media Player. An AC-S1 R2 on the 3870. Netgear DG834N router. Acer Aspire One netbook. Creative I-Trigue 3450 driven by an Audigy 2. External 160GB and 500GB hard drives. 1 happy me. 1 not so happy me's wife. My Hexus Trust |
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13-08-2009, 08:36 AM
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| Seething Cauldron of Hatred Join Date: Aug 2005
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| Re: IP camera, iPhone, watching the kids... I thought the Edimax ones used flash or Java? So that would be no. If its flash it *might* work on a up to date windows mobile phone, but probably it wouldn't. The first question is do you get a full HSDPA signal at his desk? If yes then you could look at a netbook type thing, but either way its going to get expensive! throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception) |
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13-08-2009, 09:04 AM
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| A shadowy flight. Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London/Herts
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| Re: IP camera, iPhone, watching the kids... I think that because he cycles to work he really wants something no larger than an iphone or similar. The iphone by the way hasnt been bought yet, but I think he's very sold on the idea and may buy impulsively an day! Hmm.. i hadn't considered that the iphone might not be able to view the images  Any other suggestions? Perhaps a different IP camera? Or is an iphone really not a good idea? System as shown, plus: Akasa 965 HSF. Griffin Powermate that pulsates blue! Solid oak computer desk. Diamondback Razor. Logitech media keyboard. Western Dig HD Media Player. An AC-S1 R2 on the 3870. Netgear DG834N router. Acer Aspire One netbook. Creative I-Trigue 3450 driven by an Audigy 2. External 160GB and 500GB hard drives. 1 happy me. 1 not so happy me's wife. My Hexus Trust |
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08-09-2009, 09:04 AM
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| Re: IP camera, iPhone, watching the kids... I think he's just making excuses to buy an iPhone! Surely he could at least try using a standard web or IP cam and use hosting software to view the cam via a web browser at work? Of course, if he then finds that his access is restricted, then go for an iphone. |
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08-09-2009, 05:05 PM
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| A shadowy flight. Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London/Herts
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| Re: IP camera, iPhone, watching the kids... Originally Posted by Lowe Which apps? 
System as shown, plus: Akasa 965 HSF. Griffin Powermate that pulsates blue! Solid oak computer desk. Diamondback Razor. Logitech media keyboard. Western Dig HD Media Player. An AC-S1 R2 on the 3870. Netgear DG834N router. Acer Aspire One netbook. Creative I-Trigue 3450 driven by an Audigy 2. External 160GB and 500GB hard drives. 1 happy me. 1 not so happy me's wife. My Hexus Trust |
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08-09-2009, 08:44 PM
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| Re: IP camera, iPhone, watching the kids... Anyone know a reasonably priced IP camera that'll work with Linux, i.e. doesn't require IE to view. "I was thinking of giving Windows a try, but I heard you can't run Linux programs on it" 2nd PC- Coolermaster CM330, E2180 @ 2.88ghz, GA-P31-DS3L, 2Gb Corsair PC6400 4-4-4-12, Antec Earthwatts 430w , WD250AAY, 8600gt, Hannspree 32" LCD TV - Ubuntu 8.04 3rd PC - Lenovo T41, Pentium M 1.6ghz, 768mb PC2700 RAM, 40gb HDD - Ubuntu 8.10 NAS - Dell Case, Jetway J7F5 Mini-ITX, 1gb PC5300, Enermax Pro 82+ 425w, 1TB Hitachi - FreeNAS 0.69 on 256mb CF |
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08-09-2009, 08:52 PM
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| Get in the van.  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Bristol
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| Re: IP camera, iPhone, watching the kids... Originally Posted by Maccer101 Even if it does "require" IE to view, quite often you can just pretend to be IE by switching your browser's user agent string i.e. what browser your browser is admitting to being. There are firefox/seamonkey plugins: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
Of course, this doesn't work if the site really does require some Microsoft-only technology. |
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12-09-2009, 02:51 PM
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| Re: IP camera, iPhone, watching the kids... Originally Posted by Fraz
Did not know about that, interesting... "I was thinking of giving Windows a try, but I heard you can't run Linux programs on it" 2nd PC- Coolermaster CM330, E2180 @ 2.88ghz, GA-P31-DS3L, 2Gb Corsair PC6400 4-4-4-12, Antec Earthwatts 430w , WD250AAY, 8600gt, Hannspree 32" LCD TV - Ubuntu 8.04 3rd PC - Lenovo T41, Pentium M 1.6ghz, 768mb PC2700 RAM, 40gb HDD - Ubuntu 8.10 NAS - Dell Case, Jetway J7F5 Mini-ITX, 1gb PC5300, Enermax Pro 82+ 425w, 1TB Hitachi - FreeNAS 0.69 on 256mb CF |
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