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Ultimate Wireless Webcam?

Posted by Cliff on from the remotely-watching dept.

Chris asks: "I am in need of a webcam for home security. I want it to be able to connect to my home wireless network (802.11g) and have access to its images from a secure website. I also want to be able to access images from it on my cellphone. Is there a webcam that does this?"

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  1. Veo Observer by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Informative
    The Veo Observer is worth checking out. Looks like a one-eyed snakehead, but it does have its own built-in web server, is pretty easy to use, and they offer a wireless one. It has tilt, pan, zoom too.

    Not only this, unlike X10, they have never spammed me or put annoying popups on web pages.

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  2. X10 by thewhitenoise · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm sure we've all seen the ads for the "amazing X10 webcams" online at one point or another. They're designed to provide home security for less than 80 USD (currently running a special). I think they have a web interface which will allow tilt/zoom. The only problem is that they're easily "hackable". Anyone with a receiver in the range of the camera is able to view the feed, so they're not very secure themselves. Of course, it's essentially the same as running an unencrypted wireless router in a densely populated area.

    1. Re:X10 by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Informative

      From what I have read(which includes the book hardware hacking for geeks) the quality on the X10 really blows. You can get better quality cameras for about the same amount of money, avoid the X10 if at all possible.

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  3. Re:Paranoid? by gregmac · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about just get one that will take a pic every time there is movement, then if someone DID break in, you would have pictures of who it was, plus insurance company can't say you didn't take enough steps.

    It would be nice if there was some kind of open-source project that wrote software for this kind of thing, too...

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  4. Re:I'm looking for the same, plus more by kzanol · · Score: 3, Informative

    We're running two like that: Webcam Graz - Schlossberg or
    Webcam Graz - Telecom Building
    Both are Axis Webcams in an outdoor housing with a standard (netgear) access point squeezed into the same housing. At the installation site there's just a power feed, network connectivity is provided using directional wifi antennas from about 1.5km distance.
    More detail on request :-)

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  5. I love my veo observer by way2trivial · · Score: 2, Informative

    but it ONLY WORKS with users running IE and with active X.. it will not work on a mobile

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