Foscam H.264 960p Pan/Tilt Wireless IP Camera
$39.99
$219.99
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Condition: Open Box
Color: Black
Top positive review
Easy if you have ever logged into your router...
By Taco Tim on Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2015
Well, the Foscam 9831P was a little daunting and a bit of a risk for me, based on previous reviews of this and other Foscam models. Reading a lot, it sounded like this camera was insanely hard to setup and that it was near impossible is you tried it yourself. Sure, you can a) use the Plug N Play feature on this model and it should work (never tried it), b) Let Foscam remote into your computer to set it up (no thanks), or c) try it manually yourself and hope for the best. I went for option c. Well, it was easier than expected.... If you have some experience with logging into a router and other things via a web browser (i.e. 192.168.1.1) to bring up the interface of it, it will be very easy. If not, the Plug N Play option might be the way to go.. I haven't tried the PNP option, so not too sure on it. But, if you are savvy with computers, this shouldn't be a problem for you. Remember, Google is your friend! Get into your router, give it a dedicated IP. Login to the camera. If good, setup port forwarding (again google) and you will be able to access from your WAN (via the local IP) or the IP of your cable modem and a port. Sounds complicated, but the internet is your friend and will make it easy! Lastly, I use this as a baby cam on an android, ipad, and iphone. I also have it setup so the grandparents can watch the video of the baby from a few thousand miles away... No problems so far. Edit 6/2/16 Well, I have had this cam for over 6 months now and we are still using it as a baby cam. It has worked flawlessly and I haven't had to mess with it at all. I did update the firmware once and now when it starts up (if we lose power/unplug it/etc) it says something on the microphone like "Wifi connection complete." can't really remember what it says exactly. Anyway, that is annoying when you have a sleeping baby and the camera squaks something when you power it back on. But, for the price and reliability, it is still a great deal in my book. I am looking forward to when we don't need this any longer for the baby and I can do something fun with it. I will probably use it on my patio to watch the dog, but it would be fun to use on a drone or something similar... Still a great cam!
Top critical review
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Linux & Chromebook users: avoid this camera.
By Le Ralf on Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2015
Short version: if don't use a Windows or a Mac, avoid this camera. It's simply useless as the live web view will not work. Longer version: Background: I own multiple older Foscam cameras (FI9805 and FI9810W mostly) so I'm familiar with the products, at least till now. The new firmware requires to install a custom plugin to use the live web view and the plugin is only available for Chrome or Firefox on Windows or Mac. That means it won't work on any Chromebook, any Linux box or even any Windows box where you do not have administrator rights (e.g. all corporate windows laptops.) The product requirement page does not mention Linux but then that's expected. Instead they should mention it's actually designed to NOT work on Linux, which is a very different thing and a very disappointing choice. So if you use a Linux box and any kind of Chromebook, you will NOT get any live view, which is very disappointing. You will however be able to access the administration interface. You will NOT be able to move (plan / tilt) and you will NOT be able to record presets since that's done via the live view (they do publish the CGI API as a PDF on the forums so you could try to work around it that way if you're really that motivated.) I hoped the P2P thing would make it easy to setup the camera. Unfortunately the Foscam app crashes at launch on my Android phone (running the latest L version of Android) so that means I can't use it at all. When using ZoneMinder, I found it can be made usable. First you need ZoneMinder 1.28.1 at least for the RTSP support. Then configure your zm monitor using: Source : ffmpeg Remote method : RTP/RTSP Source Path : rtsp://user:pass@192.168.ip.ip:88/videoMain Target Colorspace : 24 bit Resolution is 1280 x 960 for /videoMain and 640 x 480 for /videoSub by default. Unfortunately, the H264 stream shows some loss, it seems to miss some blocks or even only grabs half images on a regular basis, which makes the motion detection missifre, so that's pretty much unusable (and that's with the camera next to the router, with full bandwidth available.) When the frames are full, they look just OK with lots of compression artifacts. Another issue is that I tried to set the camera back to MJPEG -- this is done by setting the videoSub stream type to 1 from the admin interface (it's not documented in the web UI, you need to dig that out of the CGI API pdf documentation). Unfortunately the stream type doesn't get set and it keeps streaming h264 no matter what I put in the web UI.
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