Reccomend a good wireless outdoor camera?

So, I found this GREAT program called Security Spy http://www.bensoftware.com/ss/ and I want to put a wireless, outdoor camera outside and cover my walkway.
Anyone have any experience with an AFFORDBALE (in $200 range) outdoor, wireless camera?

Hello gPod,
http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/axis0241004.html
While this is not quite in your $200 price range it is Mac compatable. I didn't check any local distributers to see if they discount but you can do that. And the cam is on bensoftware's list of acceptable devices as well.
Good luck and do post back to let us know what you end up with and your experience.
Respectfully,
Bill Gallagher

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hi,
I am planning to install several wireless security cams at home, and the one from linksys seemed a good choice to me.
I am looking for a specific feature that I am not able to find any explanation on. In the features I see that I am abe to watch live immages remotely, and record those live images. What I am also looking for, is that the system can automatically takes and record immages, even when I am not connected to the cam. assumethat there is a stranger in our house, I wantthose images t be recorded at a later stage so that I can see who has been there.
Is that possible with the linksys cam?
Many thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Koen

Yes,using the motion detection feature on the linksys camera it is possible...Some good linksys camera are WVC54GC,WVC54GCA,WVC80N.

110 Wireless Security Camera Solution

Listed below is what we need to quote our end user (school)....if the setup is even possible.
110 Wireless IP Cameras (2.8Gbps)
DVR/Server/Routers
Any other necessary hardware
Does anyone have any insight on this topic? I haven't had the opportunity to quote any surveillance systems this large before.
Thanks!

There are some challenges in reaching a 110 camera solution. Things you need to plan for with a Cisco Small Business solution:
* You have two options for the wireless camera. WVC210 & WVC2300. For security applications include low-light & no-light (with IR illuminators) conditions, the best option is the WVC2300. You can also customize the lens on the WVC2300 to match your field of view needs for each individual camera. Both WVC210 and WVC2300 are indoor cameras. If you need cameras outdoors, the PVC2300 and PVC300 are excellent options which support POE.
* For management software, all the cameras come with SWVMS16. This has the ability to manage, view, record, and playback 16 cameras at once. For a 110 camera solution, you'd need to deploy 7 windows computers running SWVMS16. Technically feasible, but managing each application would a burden. If you can break down the monitoring into sections/categories that might make this step easeier. Even the common 3rd party Video Management Software from ONSSI, Nuuo, & Milestone don't scale to 110 cameras without having to buy their enterprise level central management system software.
* Besides the video management software, you'll need enough storage capacity to store the video. This will depend on the complexity of the video stream (how well the codec can compress the data), resolution, and frames per second. If we assume 250Kbps per camera x 110 cameras = 27500 Kbps total. You'd need over 6TB of storage to hold just under 21 days of video. You'll want to make sure the data is protected in a NAS or server with RAID. You'll also need to make sure the NAS or server can handle the incoming bandwidth. If not you'll need multiple storage devices.
* You need wireless access points that can handle the number of clients and bandwidth needed. Will depend on physical layout of the 110 cameras.
* You need switches to connect all the access points to the network.
There is definitely alot to define in a solution this large.
-Davin

Wireless Security Camera for mobile phone

hi everyone,
i would like to know can we provide wireless security camera for mobile phones. is there any service providers for that.
please clarify me.
thanks in advance

I asked because we do not want to recommend any cams that may confuse you even more. The more details we have on why you are confused the better.
Check out this website which may offer some suggestions: www.ralphjohns.co.uk/EZJim/EZJimpage1.html. EZJim's site mostly deals w/iSight and various other video methods. He actually hangs out in the iSight forums which is where you can possibly post to him. He's there quite regularly. He's the most likely person here who can perhaps offer you many suggestions.
Over in the QuickTime forums there is QuickTimeKirk, another video expert.
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Airport base Station and Wireless Web cams

I just tried to take a free CNET online course that purported to show me, step by step, how to set up a wireless Web cam with an Internet connection. Yea, right. I found that it was totally geared to PC users and almost no information was provided for us. Even the suggested hardware manufacturers (Linksys) said they didn't support Macs.
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Have you considered using Security Spy? http://www.securityspy.com/
They claim to support many wireless cameras....but it doesn't appear Linksys is one of them. Linksys historically doest not provide any Mac support, and I have personally learned to no longer support companies that don't provide some type of Mac support. (I've been a fan of Linksys historically, untill recently)
I hope Security spy works for you - let us know how it works out.

Wireless surveillance camera for 350mHz G4

I am looking for a wireless surveillance camera to monitor my home using my old G4. Are there any Mac solutions out there? It seems like the good cameras are only PC compatible.

I don't see why the platform should make a difference if the camera is wireless. If you can use a USB camera, any that support the USB Video Device Class will work without special drivers on a Macintosh. The Logitech QuickCam Pro supports the USB Video Device Class specification.
Panasonic has a wireless camera with a web server built-in, so you don't need the computer at all to use it. I have the older wired model, which allows you to zoom, pan, and elevate from the web interface. Although a lot of sites list them as "for PC", it's a web based interface and has no Windows-specific features.

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Ok, here's the layout. I have my my router & HM&C box in my attic. It's an old house from the 40s and a simple wooden roof. When I had the router in th living room, my wifi signal didn't make it out of the house. But withi it in the attic, I get full signal at every conner of the property. Now, I put an outdoor camera on my shed, which is up a hill from the house so it is acyually level with the attic. The distance from the camera to the router / HM&C is 60 feet, max.
Now, my question is, what is the max distance that the outdoor camera can be setup, wirelessly? Is it communicating over it's own wireless network, back to the HM&C box or over the router's wifi?

shaenn wrote:
What is there not to understand? My question is very simple.
What is the range of the outdoor camera?
When I responded to your inquiry one and a half months ago, I did not at that time think that my answer was overly complex:
" ... if the camera is able to connect wirelessly, it will provide some sort of image somewhere on your network. Are you seeing such an image on the device where you see images from your other cameras? If you are, then it works, and if you aren't, it doesn't ... "
You did not at that time specifically indicate whether you were interested in the optical range of the camera (i.e., coverage area), or the wireless range of its network radio circuit (i.e., ability to connect to the wireless router at a given distance). I still don't see that you've clarified that point, so I'll assume your are inquiring about a wireless connection.
Therefore, now nearly a month and a half later and having set up the camera at your desired location, I repeat: are you seeing the camera image on your monitor, or are you not seeing the camera image on your monitor?
Thanks.

Connecting a wireless nanny cam to iMac - no RCA connection

I have just migrated from the PC to Mac world. I have a wireless nanny cam that I use to record to my PC (like a DVR) by installing in my PC a DVR/PCI card that has RCA input jacks. A receiver would connect into the RCA jacks and thus receive the wireless camera signal. I now use an iMac
Obviously I can't install a PCI card on my iMac and it doesn't have RCA inputs either, so how would I receive a signal on my iMac from a wireless camera? It is not a camera that has its own IP address. I thought that since the latest iMacs are able to pick up wireless router signals for internet connectivity, that it could also be configured for a wireless camera that transmits a signal. Do I have any hope? FYI, the software used to manage the camera recordings is called Pico 2000.

You can use El Gato's EyeTV 250.
It has RCA input so you can hook up your Nanny Cam receiver and record to your HD.
Plus,you can connect your cable TV and watch and record shows on the iMac.
http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetv250&PHPSESSID=11d96ee451639d4 dd7739ef8b971a5ea
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Wireless Network Cameras

Can anyone explaing to me step-by-step, how to attach a wireless video camera to my network and have my Mac recognize it. I just returned to amazom.com my Linksys wvc54g cause mac won't recognize it. I would like to use Evocam or Security Spy, or IveZeen in order to record wireless video.
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http://www.google.com/products?client=safari&rls=en&q=wirelessnetwork+cameras+formac.&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=U6SSaWaOorhtgfN0oVR&sa=X&oi=product_resultgroup&resnum=1&ct=title
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Looking for a good wireless server..

I've tried Roadrunner's wireless service and it was horrible, does anybody know of any good wireless services?

I'd look into getting a Netgear DG834G instead. This is the best-selling wireless ADSL modem/router/switch for a reason.
For half the price of Airport Extreme you get pretty much the same set of features, plus 4 Ethernet ports instead of one.
Plus, there is also Internet content filtering, firewall with DoS protection and SPI, 50 user VPN pass-through and most importantly (for me that is), remote configuration from designated IP addresses only.
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Suggest a good wireless router...

Hello guys,
Need some help here. Being a total n00b @ computer technology, I need some advice purchasing a wireless router. We recently moved to a duplex house and got a wimax internet connection for which I need a wireless router. We also have a Vonage VoIP phone using a Linksys RTP300 which off late developed some issues.
So can I get a device which acts as both a VoIP adapter and wireless router?
If that's not possible i need a good wireless router and VoIP adapter.
I have zeroed on to a cpl of linksys routers viz. Linksys WRT54GL, Linksys WRT 310N, Linksys WRT 160NL.
My requirements would be:
1.Being a duplex house I need good reception on both the floors.
2.Good data transfer speeds.
3.Budget is 150$ max(for router and voip adapter).
I have a cpl of laptops(Vaio VGN FZ35GN and 3 year old Dell). Heard a great deal abt WRT54GL but a lil apprehensive abt its performance compared to WRT 310 and 16NL.
Help me guys.......

There are few things that you need to rule out - Out Of The Box - which are the following:
1. Can you access WPA2 (Personal) on all the Laptops since you have mentioned that you have old laptops.
2. If you cannot then you should try a Linksys WRT54 (G/GL/GS/GX) Since you can connect older ones with that model.
3. If you do then you might as well go with a WRT310N so that you would be good to go even if you create a gigabit network.
- o_o

Running the Outdoor Camera on Batteries

The power adapter for the camera is 12V/1A, 100~240 VAC. Has anyone every run one of these off of a battery? My reason for asking is that I want to mount the camera in a work shed on the back of my property. There is no power in the shed and I had the thought that I would hookup a solar charged battery in the shed to power the camera. I know I could hook it to an inverter off the battery which, may be a better way to go as it would keep the camera from getting damaged if the battery were to supply too much or too little power.
Thoughts?

I found a web site which has specs on the outdoor camera.. It states that the camera takes 12v DC and 4.8 watts'' Now from college days, I (current) = P (power)divided by e(voltage).. So if you have 4.8/12 it comes to .4 amps or 400 ma.. So if you get a 12 volt battery rated at 500 ma that should do the trick.. actually, any 12v dc battery will do, it will only pull out of the source what it needs...

Wireless security camera

Is there a wireless security camera that requires no PC, just works directly with my Mac & new Airbase ?

I briefly tested SecuritySpy and it seemed to work pretty well. If that doesn't seem to fit your needs, you search MacUpdate for something like "security camera" you'll find other applications.

Good Wireless Router for iMac

I just ordered my first Mac, an 20" iMac G5. Now I need a good wireless router for it. I looked at the Airport Extreme Base Station, but it sure is pricey. Any suggestions on some more reasonably priced wireless routers? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Clayton,
Although a bit pricey, the next router I buy will be the "AirPort Express Base Station with AirTunes". It is a full featured router that is certainly compatable with any other AirPort equiped Mac -- including WPA excryption. That router has the added Apple AirTunes feature that you will not find on any other router.
If you want to go the cheaper route (no pun intended) then I have had good luck setting up friends with several different models of both DLink and Linksys routers including my current DLink DI-624. I have had nothing but success connecting several Apple PowerBooks with old and new versions of AirPort cards to several different makes/models of these routers and can't say I have ever had difficulties.
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Also, when choosing a model don't be fooled into paying for any of the "Xtreme", "Speedbooster", "SRX", "pre-n", or "MIMO" routers. Unless you have special needs the vast majority of home users simply need a basic 802.11g router.
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Best of luck,
Tim

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