Ip camera baby monitor

I've been trying to use a tenvis ip camera as a baby monitor but am having real trouble getting it all set up over my HH2 for viewing from my iPhone when I'm away at work.
I bought it so I could look in on my 9 month old being looked after my mum during the day. I was hoping it was going to be quite straightforward and am not getting any help from tenvis tech support - there doesn't appear to be any real help on offer from them.
It should just work and I am using the icamviwer app on my iPhone. I've read here something about port forwarding? I don't really want to mess around with settings on my router if I can help it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Ali
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I just wanted to offer an update, which I hope will be useful to others here.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I sent the original camera back and replaced it with a Wireless IP Webcam UCam247i.
Well, I must say I've been pleasantly surprised because it really did work just as expected and I had it working from my iPhone in about 10 minutes. Even had it working wirelessly by following the video tutorial ucam247 have on youtube.
The camera has quite good video, though no quite high definition, but it works brilliantly over my iPhone and I can even hear audio!
Suffice to say it's a great little baby monitor though you can also use it for home security as it has things like a motion sensor and can record video directly as well.
Alison

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