Dummys guide to DIY Calving Camera

JCB1

babybrian wrote: »

Right lads need a bit of help here, I have got the camera(and set it up on my laptop in the room last week and was able to view it on my mobile too). Got around to putting up the nano stations and camera in shed this evening and power into both of them(lights on). Then I followed the guidelines on http://dl.ubnt.com/docs/M_Series_Beginner_Guide.pdf, Maybe I was wrong but I typed everything that was said on it up to the end of page 7. Then it tells me on page 8 to type in http:/192.168.10.20 into address bar I get 'this web page is unavailable. Ideas please??

Did you re-try http://192.168.1.20 ? Its possible that the IP address did not update correctly with your updates. You have to click on 'Change' on the screen before 'Apply' to apply the updates

babybrian

I have tried that too but no joy, I was hoping I could get back to the start and recheck my inputs but cant even do that..Highly annoying..what now?

vanderbadger

babybrian wrote: »

Right lads need a bit of help here, I have got the camera(and set it up on my laptop in the room last week and was able to view it on my mobile too). Got around to putting up the nano stations and camera in shed this evening and power into both of them(lights on). Then I followed the guidelines on http://dl.ubnt.com/docs/M_Series_Beginner_Guide.pdf, Maybe I was wrong but I typed everything that was said on it up to the end of page 7. Then it tells me on page 8 to type in http:/192.168.10.20 into address bar I get 'this web page is unavailable. Ideas please??

So have you the nano on the house side connected directly to our computer or is it connected to modem

JCB1

You can always hit the 'Reset' button on the bottom of the nano station to reset to factory settings.

babybrian

connected to the modem

vanderbadger

babybrian wrote: »

connected to the modem

Do you know what your pc address is. I would say its easier to connect a pc directly to nano to address it etc before connecting to modem

babybrian

ok so just plug the cable from the poe box into my laptop instead of modem??will I still have to do what JCB1 said and reset the nano?

babybrian

and yes I do know my ip address of my laptop

vanderbadger

babybrian wrote: »

ok so just plug the cable from the poe box into my laptop instead of modem??will I still have to do what JCB1 said and reset the nano?

Well to talk to the nano your laptop needs 192.168.10.x address so the first thing you need is to verify your IP address. If you hit start, the run, type cmd and hit ok. A black screen should open up. In the black screen type ipconfig. This should tell your you IP address

shrek008

Am thinking of buying a calving camera syst off Agricameras uk,just wondering if anyone can tell me if i can reclaim the vat on this on my vat58 form,is there any agreement between UK n Ireland?

just do it

How well does the pan and tilt work with your camera when you're accessing it remotely? With the foscam it's useless. Fine when it's on the home network but no good otherwise.

JCB1

just do it wrote: »

How well does the pan and tilt work with your camera when you're accessing it remotely? With the foscam it's useless. Fine when it's on the home network but no good otherwise.

I find the same unless I've got a real good internet connection. I find the preset camera settings/location work well.

JCB1

babybrian wrote: »

and yes I do know my ip address of my laptop

Did you get sorted ? I had to move one of the nanos to a more permanent location at the weekend. I unplugged it and moved it but when I plugged it back in there was a problem, lights flashing on the back of the nano and no internet. IT sworth cecking that you dont have a similar issue.

Turned out to be the poe power supply, I tested with another and it worked fine. I've sent back to InterProjekt so lets see how good the after sales service is

just do it

JCB1 wrote: »

I find the same unless I've got a real good internet connection. I find the preset camera settings/location work well.

Must try the preset

vanderbadger

just do it wrote: »

How well does the pan and tilt work with your camera when you're accessing it remotely? With the foscam it's useless. Fine when it's on the home network but no good otherwise.

ya actually when my camera was gone for repair i noticed the spare camera which is similar to foscam was cat remotely, was delighted to get the better camera back

keep going

keep going wrote: »

seems to be a good bit of camera expertise on here so i have a query.thinking of putting in cameras into calving pen plus the cubicle house beside it where i put the girls close to calving to keep an eye on them and they are easy to move plus spending less time in the calving pen =less sh*t.so thinking of putting in 4 cameras in the house wired in to dwelling house which is close by.but a buddy suggested while im at it to put a camera looking on to yard and dwelling house from this shed which would go into some sort of recorder which given what im hearing seems very wise.would i need to run 2 cables or would i be able to set it up with one camera to recorder and the other 4 to the tele (or computer maybe in time to come) in the one cable.thanks.by the way did you know cctv evidence is not admissable unless you had a sign up to say there was a camera there

ended up buying a 4 camera cctv system off logicom in cork for e560 which includes a recorder and 100m cable.a doodle to put as i was able to wire it into the house as we are doing up the garden at the moment.2 cameras either end of cubicle house and 2 in the calving house and one can face out on to the yard when season is over.no motors to go wrong or waiting for it to turn around and dosent matter which way her ass is turned. happy out with and of course "should have done it ages ago"

pakalasa

Turns out I'm one of the Dummies .
The 2 Ubiquitis (Nanostation Loco M2) arrived today. I still haven't connected to them with the PC. I set the static IP address (that took about an hour). I reckon the ethernet cable I borrowed is damaged.
Anyone know if it's possible to have an Eircom wireless modem with no Ethernet connections. The ports are at the back of the modem alright, but don't think they are functioning. No lights coming on for them.
A lot of hassle all this.

vanderbadger

pakalasa wrote: »

Turns out I'm one of the Dummies .
The 2 Ubiquitis (Nanostation Loco M2) arrived today. I still haven't connected to them with the PC. I set the static IP address (that took about an hour). I reckon the ethernet cable I borrowed is damaged.
Anyone know if it's possible to have an Eircom wireless modem with no Ethernet connections. The ports are at the back of the modem alright, but don't think they are functioning. No lights coming on for them.
A lot of hassle all this.

ya more likely your cable is frigged, what address is supposed to be on those nanos? is it 192.168.1.20 or something like that? your modem is probably already on 192.168.1.x range so you might not need to set a static, when you plug your nano into modem you should be be able to access it from your wireless assuming nothing else on your network has same address as nano

pakalasa

Ya, it's frigged alright. Just checked it there at work. Cheers.

GoodMan55985

Just a bit of advice for Pakalasa on this setup. I have it setup it does take patience and time.

1. If you ordered the Nanostations from InterProjket in Poland, you'll be sent european plugs for the two nanostations. I bought European to UK/Ireland plug adapters to get round this.

2. You will need four Cat 5e Ethernet Cables in total. Two for each Nanostation. You can get them in Currys up to 20m in length or buy them from Comms Express in the UK. Comms Express are very good can order really long lenght to bring the connection from nanostation back to your power supply.

3. Ideally need a double socket in the cow shed. One for the Camera power supply and one the nanostation power supply. Otherwise could use extension leads. Also the Foscam night vision isn't great but can you make out enough to see if action.

4. The cable ties with the nanostations were way too small to tie to my downpipe on shed. You can get a bag of these in any electrical suppliers shop.

5. This Youtube video is all you need to setup the communication between two nanostations - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__xzHnK6IVs&list=UUCLpYbF6epWOUuJurR8INWA&index=19

6. My advice before setting up the nanostations see that you get the get foscam camera setup on the network first. See that you can access camera using an alias (use no-ip as it is free) and on another computer or your mobile. If this is done you have port forwarding setup correctly. This video from awkwardhamster helped me out- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHTxuYa3Kzo&feature=related

pakalasa

Good Man Goodman55985,:D Thanks for that.
I didn't realise until I opened the nanostations that I needed 4 Cat5e cables. There's no hanging brackets either. Ah, a bit of patience and I'll get there.

GoodMan55985

No bother. You can buy hanging brackets on the net on some websites. I didnt do that. Just used cable ties to on the shed to fix the nanostation to the shed. If you two or three of them it is good and sturdy.

On the house side the nanostation is just lying in a window sill and they are communcating fine. Might save a few bob than buying brackets and all that.

All for the ip address of router that is 192.168.1.1 on the video from awkwardhamster for some others routers like netopia it is 192.168.1.254. This will depend on the make of your router. Also from video forget about dyndns as you have to pay for this, use no-ip to setup your alias as it free. Lasts 30 days just have to log on and update every 30 days to keep alias active.

pakalasa

I now have the Foscam Camera working with the 2 nanostations (Nanostation Loco M2). I'm still having problems with remote accessing the camera from another PC on another network. So a few questions;
I want to get access from my work PC.

Do I access the Camera direct or do I access via my home PC, which has the sofware loaded afterall? I've seen the videos on YOUTUBE from AKWARDHAMSTER and he uses NOIP.com with the home PC external IP address and he specifies the port.
What does NOIP do? Does it keep track of the changing external IP adresses of my home PC?
Also, do I need to keep my home PC turned on to get to the camera?

We have an Eircom router at home. I can turn down the FIREWALL to low from medium to allow access from outside. I've found Port Forwarding but it asks for settings for 'Default Server' and 'Server IP address'. Do these refer to interal or external IP address?
Sorry, many questions, but hard to try different things when you are at work.

GoodMan55985

Hi Pakalasa,

You can access the camera directly without having your home pc turned on just make sure that the cat 5e cable is plugged into the router in the house from the nanastation in house. Your foscam camera should have an ip address like 192.168.1.50 for example. You can type this into a browser and you should get the foscam page where you can access camera.

When you have port forwarding setup you will need to specify a port the default is port 80. So if you said your port was 20 for port forwarding. You would type this in 192.168.1.50:20 to hit port 20 on the ip address of the camera. You can setup port forwarding on the setting of your router. Do you have netopia router if so you need to setup a custom service for netopia. What noip does is it is a mapping really from your ip address of the foscam camera to more readable address example 192.1.168.50:20 = http://pakalasacowcamera.com

Just makes it easier to type a name into a browser than having to remember an ip address

GoodMan55985

Hi Paklasa, You must have a different router to me. I would imagine default server would be ip address of router e.g. 192.168.1.1 and Server IP addrees would be ip address of camera e.g. 192.168.1.50:20

The :20 is for port forwarding or whatever port you specify

On the netopia router setup page I had to specify ip address of camera and the port I was forwarding to so the above may be what you need.

pakalasa

Thanks GoodMan55985,
I'll try all that this evening.

Grecco

pakalasa wrote: »

I now have the Foscam Camera working with the 2 nanostations (Nanostation Loco M2). I'm still having problems with remote accessing the camera from another PC on another network. So a few questions;
I want to get access from my work PC.

Do I access the Camera direct or do I access via my home PC, which has the sofware loaded afterall? I've seen the videos on YOUTUBE from AKWARDHAMSTER and he uses NOIP.com with the home PC external IP address and he specifies the port.
What does NOIP do? Does it keep track of the changing external IP adresses of my home PC?
Also, do I need to keep my home PC turned on to get to the camera?

We have an Eircom router at home. I can turn down the FIREWALL to low from medium to allow access from outside. I've found Port Forwarding but it asks for settings for 'Default Server' and 'Server IP address'. Do these refer to interal or external IP address?
Sorry, many questions, but hard to try different things when you are at work.

Ok your default server is in your case the router itself so it will have an address like 192.168.1.1 the same as the router
On the home network do the following
Turn off firewall access
Set up the Foscam to use port 8090
Set up a rule on the router to forward all traffic for the ip of your camera to the same port you used ie 8090.
Goto myipaddress.com to get your true ip address of your internet connection
On the external network enter that ip address + the port number of the camera ie. 78.234.23.2:8090
Working? ok then turn back on firewall and test again

just do it

pakalasa wrote: »

I now have the Foscam Camera working with the 2 nanostations (Nanostation Loco M2). I'm still having problems with remote accessing the camera from another PC on another network. So a few questions;
I want to get access from my work PC.

Do I access the Camera direct or do I access via my home PC, which has the sofware loaded afterall? I've seen the videos on YOUTUBE from AKWARDHAMSTER and he uses NOIP.com with the home PC external IP address and he specifies the port.
What does NOIP do? Does it keep track of the changing external IP adresses of my home PC?
Also, do I need to keep my home PC turned on to get to the camera?

We have an Eircom router at home. I can turn down the FIREWALL to low from medium to allow access from outside. I've found Port Forwarding but it asks for settings for 'Default Server' and 'Server IP address'. Do these refer to interal or external IP address?
Sorry, many questions, but hard to try different things when you are at work.

I hit upon the same problem. What port have you assigned to the camera? Eircom block the more common ones so when I changed mine from 88 to 3334 I could then get remote access i.e. 192.168.1.10:3334

JCB1

I'm away from home for the week so cant check the router settings but its an eircom router also. I'm working from memory here so forgive me if its vague.
First thing is to set the security to low, nothing would work until I did that.
It works with Port 88, for the port forwarding : in the port forwarding settings - when I logged on I could see the foscam camera in a dropdown list and was able to select it - it was named something like myipcam123456, I was able to select it and enter the port settings.
Also my foscam came with its owned dyndns server already configured for that camera, something like : http://bd7017.myfoscam.org:88 . (its a free service provided by foscam for 3 years) I dont remember doing any specific config to make this work so it must have 'called home' to register. Sorry for being vague, if you are still stuck next week when I get home I will log on to my router and send you screenshot/more detail on the config

pakalasa

YEEHAW - got camera viewing from another network. Again thanks to everyone for their help. Hopefully, it will make life a little easier for me.

For the record, my Eircom router is make ZyXEL. 2 Changes I had to make;
1 - Change Firewall from Med to Low
2 - Port Forwarding. Default Server = 192.168.1.254 (had it at 192.168.1.1)
Server IP Address = 192.168.1.154, Port 5656. This refers to camera. (These specified by me on camera)

On www.NOIP.com
1 - Host type = Port 80redirect
2 - IP Address = 77.14.156.234 (This is WAN IP address of Eircom Router, not mine, BTW). You will find this under the status tab of the router.
3 - Port = 5656 (to match set value on camera)


Under the / Device status / DDNS Status / of the camera it will tell you if the www.NOIP,com link is working.

Might be of help to someone else.