IP Cameras - Help please

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Hi,

I'm installing IP Cameras around our business premises. Management needs to be able to log in remotely [after hours] and view the feeds if the alarm goes off.

So far, I've got two of these installed and am using the software that came with them to find their ip's. Browser to view the feeds. So far, we're able to log into the server remotely (mstsc) and open up the cameras in a browser, but obviously we're not going to get any decent video out of it that way.

Is there a way to send the camera feeds to the outside world via the router directly? If so, anyone here able to give me a quick crash course?

Also, I don't want to use Trendnet's SecurView to multiplex the cameras. Is there proprietary software that one can download that will possibly search for ip cameras on a given network and display them?

Static or dynamic IPs: Which is better?

Thanks in advance.
 
Well it depends on you network setup.
For my Companies network, I created a policy on the firewall to NAT a External IP to the Internal of the IP Cam. Then from the browser just type in the external IP and you in. Hope that helped:confused: use static IPs
 
You'd need reserved public-facing static IPs,which you'd assign to the specific devices,then open your firewall ports for the specific service ( remote-vid,http etc )
 
Use static internal IPs, you dont want to hunt around when the alarm has gone off and you need to see the zone unless the DVR software has some way of using dynamic addresses and can allocate them.

Then use dynamic dns (if you dont have static public IPs) and port forward on your router. You can assign dyndns to each camera and port forward on each camera but this depends on your router and the number of entries you can put into it. In our environment I gave our directors http://spiceXXXXXX.dyndns.org:1234 (not the actual port or address :) ) as the address to check the cameras in our 3 stores.
 
If you check on your router it should hopefully support 1) port forwarding and 2) dynamic dns.

The dynamic dns is so you can use an address like http://mywork.dyndns.org and it will be directed to the current ip address of your connection.

The you need port forwarding so that a specific port on your router is forwarded to the internal cameras ip and right port.

This means for eg http://mywork.dyndns.org:2001/ would point at camera number 1 and http://mywork.dyndns.org:2002/ would point at camera number 2 etc.
 
Get decent camera's - Axis
Get a decent network, adsl router, and port forwarding to the server.
Can individually assign ports to each camera, then just to a port forward.
Get Dynamic DNS FREE from dyndns.org. Setup router to apply to the name.
Use VNC, not remote desktop.
Use static IP's, if camera's are not on their own Virtual LAN (VLAN) - choose a range, i.e. 192.168.0.201-210 is for 10 camera's.
 
Hi. Try not to flame me for this, but I am very interested in this subject, but know hardly anything.

1. Obviously to access the video feeds, one would need a password to access it hey?
2. What are the range of cameras available for such operations? Local ditro would be better.
3. Is it possible to link these cameras to a bigger network (like a WUG) via a WAN, or can they only access the internet via cabled LAN etc?
 
Thank you all for your help. I'll try this today, if I don't come right, I'll be back.
 
Unfortunately Trendnet are not very well supported cams for NVR solutions but im pretty sure www.NUUO.com will work. Use software like this for remote viewing and login so that you dont have to have dyndns or external IP address for each cam. The server the NUUO runs on will need to be port forwarded via your router as the guys have explained earlier.

good luck
 
Other great software for ip cam monitoring is ZoneMinder, and its opensource.
 
Awesome! Thanks.

I bought the Trendnets because they're dirt cheap... They work great.
 
Check out a program called Webcam XP. You can runs streams into WinMedia player and you can view through a preset port in a web browser.

I'm using webcam XP to stream the cricket from my tv card and DSTV at home to the office.
 
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