Ouvis ZV1 Camera Not Ready for Prime Time
- May 10, 2017
- Adam Beguelin
Useless Ouvis ZV1
The Ouvis ZV1 camera is not ready for prime time. The only thing it’s good for is viewing the camera on your local network. You can’t view it remotely (no P2P viewing) and the FTP uploads don’t work so you can’t use it with Sensr.net.
The only thing good about this camera is that it’s pretty easy to setup. If you have the app, you can get the camera going pretty easily. You do need to plug it into an ethernet jack on the same network as your phone’s wifi, but once you do that, the Ouvis app can find the camera and configure it.
Read MoreHow to configure a Foscam FI9900P Outdoor Camera from Mac or Linux
- April 11, 2017
- Adam Beguelin
Foscam FI9900P Outdoor HD Camera
The Foscam FI9900P Outdoor HD Wireless Security Camera is a recent compact outdoor model from Foscam. It’s currently listing for around $125 on Amazon.
My biggest gripe with this camera is the mounting hardware. The camera can only be pointed forward and tilted up and down. There is no left or right articulation. In my case I was mounting the camera near the wall my garage. I had to put a little shim under one side of the mounting brack to get it to angle off to the side. See the image below for the final orientation. If I had mounted it straight ahead, I would have ended up with half the frame taken up by the left wall.
Had to angle camera manually to get a more centered image. The image quality is quite good though.
The camera works well with Sensr.net, so you can use our cloud DVR service with the Foscam. We have a free trial, so sign up and follow the instructions below on how to get it working with Sensr.net.
Read MoreHow to do port forwarding with eero
- April 10, 2017
- Adam Beguelin
eero wifi system
The eero wifi system is really quite amazing. It lets you blanket your home in wifi and manage it with the eero app. You can do lots of neat things, like pause the internet for different devices or manage the network even when you’re not home.
Normally to do port forwarding to your IP camera, you need to configure the camera to have a specific IP address, then go to the router and add tell it to forward external ports to the internal ports on that IP address. eero takes a different approach.
However, if you don’t want to do port forwarding at all, you can simiply use Sensr.net and have your camera push to Sensr.net.
There are still some reasons you might want to do port forwarding, so here’s how it works with eero:
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