Wireless IP camera as baby monitor - update

No need to use a night light which may disturb the baby, use some infra-red LEDs these will light the scene up a treat for the camera without disturbing the sleeping one :)

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where did you buy it ?

Um, I do hope you aren't actually monitoring your baby over the Internet at the other side of town!

Christian.

monitoring your baby over the internet with a webcam?

What is used to display the internet video? I've come across one of those IP cameras whereby it won't display a video in Mozilla/Firefox due to the software was only written for IE. Alas the name escapes me.

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dabs.com Ordered at 7.30pm on Tuesday and it turned up at my work at 9am on Wednesday. Most impressive service.

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Well, we don't have a baby yet, but I will be most definitely monitoring it over the internet!

The wife will be at home aswell though!

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You can view it using IE, I don't have any need to try other browsers. It uses activeX or Java I think. There's a viewer utility included on the CD that it comes with, so if you don't have IE you can use this viewer utility.

I'll open it up to the internet for a while if you like. It's pointing out my front window at the moment. I'll disable this in a few hours time. It's pretty dark so the pictures not good but you can see if it works or not.

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Yep,I was right won't work in firefox,only IE must have a lot of frustrated people who have bought that cam.

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It does point you at another bit of software instead - perhaps that works.

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You can use the viewer utility that comes with it in that event. It's a very small application.

They are making the usual unfortunate assumption that everyone uses Windows. There are several alternatives...

If someone using one of the alternatives wants to they can use the FTP function to upload pics to a web server and view that.

Why is it that these minority users always think manufacturers should waste money on doing specials for them? You choose to use the minority products so you really should work out how to get around the problems you create rather than expecting everyone to do what suits you. Its not as though you would pay for any software they did for Linux, etc. is it? It isn't going to significantly increase their sales either is it?

Hardly the same.

They don't have to waste money - just do the job properly.

A very blinkered viewpoint. But then...

I never said I use Linux (and I don't - it's just a jumped up wannabe UNIX, and I've had 30 years of that). I'm happy to pay for software and products, but not if they're badly written and nonstandard.

It is a waste if it doesn't increase their sales and profits.

So using activeX which covers 90+% is doing it wrong. What would you suggest they used to do it correctly?

You mean apart from the big security black hole that is Active X?

Dave

Its only a problem if you load activeX programs from untrustworthy places.. this is the same as loading any other program on any OS That is why root kits get loaded on Linux or Macs the user is by far the weakest link in the security chain.. always has been and always will be.

A naive view. Even Microsoft ActiveX controls have had security issues before now.