My experience with a wireless IP camera

[gc1111]

It's taken me a week to figure out a reliable way to have zm work with this camera. I've never used the software before, so I have no other experience with working with a wired camera.

I tried having zm get the data but it was unreliable -- the camera would be deactivated after a while. The one solution I have found that has been reliable is to have a separate shell script running continuously that grabs a frame from the camera (uses wget) and stores it in a file. I then have the monitor set to "file".

One hint I have figured out from this scheme. I don't have zm looking at the frame that I directly grab from the camera. Since it's a wireless connection, the file may be blank for a short period while it's grabbing the frame. I have my script mv the file to a new name right after grabbing it and have zm look at that file.

[Flasheart]

Kind of important bit of info: What camera?

IME, wifi is very hit and miss. You can test if it's the wifi signal by using cat5 (even if it means moving the camera to test), and/or by pinging it over wifi for an hour or so and seeing if you get any missed packets.