I currently have 4 cameras around the yard. I've been messing around this week with video capture cards. The two I bought both used one processor for all 4 channels. That worked fine with their software but that was it.
One used something called RapidOS. That works great on my internal network but only works on port 80 for the internet. Now, I don't want to shut down my whole company so I told Apache (which is what RapidOS uses) to listen 82. Here at home I can go to http://192.168.42.45:82 and it comes up. Starts channels etc. However, when I forward 82 to that guy with my router and go to http://www.spectrumdata.com:82 (you can try this), I get the screen OK but when I click Start Channel, it starts searching for http://www.spectrumdata.com/<myexternalIP>... There is no documentation anywhere about this applet. I've tried using codebase= etc but nothing seems to work.
So, I've about decided I need a stand-alone DVR. Almost all that I've found, like the cards, say "Internet Monitoring" but neglect to mention that it only works with their client software installed.
I'm looking for a stand-alone DVR that can act as its own web browser on a port other than 80. Sounds simple, right? Problem is I don't want to spend $2500 on it.
Has anyone seen a reasonable DVR that will work for this? Or, if not that, some software that can handle these cheap capture cards over the web? Or, if not THAT, a reasonable priced DVR card.
As a final thing, I'd like to be able to use this with HS. I doubt that I'll be able to since it won't be installed on my HS machine. But one can hope.
Thanks,
John
One used something called RapidOS. That works great on my internal network but only works on port 80 for the internet. Now, I don't want to shut down my whole company so I told Apache (which is what RapidOS uses) to listen 82. Here at home I can go to http://192.168.42.45:82 and it comes up. Starts channels etc. However, when I forward 82 to that guy with my router and go to http://www.spectrumdata.com:82 (you can try this), I get the screen OK but when I click Start Channel, it starts searching for http://www.spectrumdata.com/<myexternalIP>... There is no documentation anywhere about this applet. I've tried using codebase= etc but nothing seems to work.
So, I've about decided I need a stand-alone DVR. Almost all that I've found, like the cards, say "Internet Monitoring" but neglect to mention that it only works with their client software installed.
I'm looking for a stand-alone DVR that can act as its own web browser on a port other than 80. Sounds simple, right? Problem is I don't want to spend $2500 on it.
Has anyone seen a reasonable DVR that will work for this? Or, if not that, some software that can handle these cheap capture cards over the web? Or, if not THAT, a reasonable priced DVR card.
As a final thing, I'd like to be able to use this with HS. I doubt that I'll be able to since it won't be installed on my HS machine. But one can hope.
Thanks,
John
Comment