![]() ![]() Or make the camera have an Ethernet to configure it through. TP_link, if you're reading this, make your app able to configure the camera WITHOUT needing to sign up for those of us who use these without Internet. It's also possible that even after signup it may have required the camera go online like others do, not sure. Now I understand that MAYBE just doing a one-time signup on their app may have allowed me to configure the camera on site without further Internet, that just annoyed me so much that I'm just sending it back because I can use Amcrest and SV3C and not have to deal with an app AT ALL both NOW and in the future. A quarter of a gig for a camera app? WTF? Second, as soon as I run the app it immediately wants me to set up an account with no option. First, the app is over 260MB apk download. Configured with no Internet or app.ģ) The TP-Link Tapo just annoyed me from the start. I hope the internal components are as high quality as the outside is, but these are so cheap I guess I won't expect too much.Ģ) Am also keeping the Amcrest mentioned in previous post, works well. These cameras seem to be metal, solid and heavy. Attached Ethernet cable and powered it on and it DHCPd from my test machine, I browsed to it using admin/admin and am able to configure IP and SSID etc. Have not tested extensively but bench testing results are as follows (bench testing closely resembles on-site testing, no Internet).ġ) Found some killer Black Friday deal on the SVBC "HD Camera" list on the 'zon as "SV3C WiFi Camera Outdoor, 1080P ONVIF Conformance Two-Way Audio Security Camera, Motion Detection IP Cameras, Night Vision Surveillance Alarm Cam for Indoor Outdoor, Support Max 128GB SD Card Record", got these for $35 each (bought two). ANYONE WITH A FOSCAM WITH A SOLID RED LIGHT, CHECK YOUR POWER SUPPLY as counterintuitive as that sounds. Two foscams came back to life with just power supplies, this lowered the urgency and gave me some time to test. Will post results here, especially since you all were so helpful to me. I will get each one running with BI and let you all know how well it worked. Still will be testing the cameras though. I was thinking that a bad power supply would be obvious with no power at all, but in 2 cases right here I have 2 Foscams that sit with a red light on their bad power supplies but work JUST FINE with a known good power supply. It threw me off because with a bad power supply the Foscam would light just its red light and never POST. Once they ping I'll then work on getting the BI streams going on site.Īlso wanted to note that so far 2 of the Foscam cameras were actually not broken, they had bad power supplies. It appears that I can add the SSID's and other information from that web interface as well, so I should be able to even pre-configure these. On a bench, using crossover Ethernet cable and a standalone DHCP server app on the laptop, plugged laptop into camera's Ethernet and powered it on where it immediately DHCP'd from my portable DHCP server and I then immediately was able to browse to the interface and do full configuration. Will be hoarding all this information.īut testing Amcrest and am liking the setup so far. Pogo, thank you for that link, will review. ![]() Also ordered 2 other different brand of cameras based on the above advice (and they were so cheap on Cyber Monday), will post results of those as well. Optional user Cloud stuff is fine as an option, just shouldn't be required.Īmcrest arrived and decided to test it instead of just sending back. I agree, there's just something not right about having a security camera REQUIRE phoning home for ANYTHING. But in your case, I would never buy those cameras. HeneryH wrote: ↑ Sun 9:37 pmOK, I would still suggest there is a lot of misunderstanding, maybe not with you specifically. ![]()
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