[dundee] cameras

Daniel Lamb daniel.lamb at openyourwindows.com
Tue Sep 23 18:13:10 UTC 2008


I cant get access to the router, this is the problem, it is basically 
stalls which are going into shopping centres and need to have a live 
camera feed back via a wireless network in the centre, as I said was 
just if anyone had done something similar, I can find loads of programs 
which will give a feed but I need port forwarding for it, I need 
something which servers the signal to a webserver.

Cheers for your suggestions tho,
Daniel

Robert Ladyman wrote:
> Do you mean that the Internet connection will not be on a static IP, or that 
> the PC on the wireless connection will not be on a static IP (or some 
> combination of the above)?
>
> For the router, you can use a dynamic IP service, like dyndns.org (see what 
> the router supports) - that will give you the external IP when you need it.
>
> For the internal (NAT) address, you can usually have the router hand out an IP 
> address tied to a particular MAC address (or it can be reserved and you assign 
> a static address in the DHCP range), or you can assign a static IP outside the 
> DHCP-issued range.
>
> You can often (at least with some of the D-Link cameras) arrange for the 
> camera to periodically upload images to a web-site, which means you do not 
> need to route through at all.
>
> Lastly...you could try writing a specification before deciding you will use 
> this particular arrangement (the old joke:-  
> "How do I get to X?"
> "Well, I wouldn't start from here" ). 
>
> But then again, that might be expecting sensible customers...
>
> On Tuesday 23 September 2008 15:13:07 Daniel Lamb wrote:
>   
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone has ever done this before, I am wanting to
>> setup a live feed from a webcam to a website, the only problem is the
>> camera will not be on a static ip and I wont be able to access the
>> router(it is sitting on a pc which will be using a shared wireless
>> connection), anyways anyone done this?
>>
>> regards,
>> Daniel
>>
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