IPCams on HomeHub4 - dropping camera Alias / ID, w...

I have several Foscam IPCams, connected via WiFi, and viewable from outside my LAN by using Port Forwarding, static IP addresses, and the NoIP DDNS service. I'm using the LiveCams Pro app on iPad and iPhone. All works well most of the time, but occasionally (maybe once a week) the HH4 drops the name I've given to one or more of the cameras on the HH (eg IPCAM5). This means that the Port Forwarding, which refers to that name, stops working and the camera is no longer accessible from outside. When this happens the camera's ID shown on the HH changes to a long character string including the word "Linux" and which looks a bit like a MAC address. All I need to do is log onto the HH (which I can only do when at home), go into Advanced settings, and rename the camera back to (eg) IPCAM5, and everything works fine again. These occurrences don't seem to correlate with any other events such as power glitches, reboots, updates, etc.
I've contacted Foscam, who blame the HH, and the BT help people say they don't support IPCams, so I'm floundering. Does anyone have any bright ideas ?
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You need to give each of the cameras a static IP address, outside of the DHCP range of the home hub.
Then you assign the application to the IP address of the camera, not its name.
This is available on the dropdown list, as user defined IP address.
There is a Foscam example here.
http://forumhelp.dyndns.info/hardware/cctv/foscam/foscam.html
The assignment screenshot is missing on that page, but here is an example of what I mean by the user defined setting.
http://forumhelp.dyndns.info/networking/vpnimages/define1.JPG
This is for a VPN, but it indicates the option you need to use.
The home hubs have problems working with device names.
More general info on this page.
Port forwarding problems
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

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