wireless cameras and surveliance

I am new to computers and wireless. I am gone alot from my house and
would like to know what is going on in there while I am gone.
(Especially children).

Is there a way I can monitor rooms in my house from my computer at work
over the internet without the kids being able to find out on my main
computer at home? (Which they use alot)

Check out www.X10.com

Just don't give out your email. (They will be emailing you 5 times a day!)

They have lots of wireless video equipment and multi camera solutions.


<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am new to computers and wireless. I am gone alot from my house and
> would like to know what is going on in there while I am gone.
> (Especially children).
>
> Is there a way I can monitor rooms in my house from my computer at work
> over the internet without the kids being able to find out on my main
> computer at home? (Which they use alot)
>

On 26 Oct 2004 08:35:45 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>I am new to computers and wireless. I am gone alot from my house and
>would like to know what is going on in there while I am gone.
>(Especially children).
>
>Is there a way I can monitor rooms in my house from my computer at work
>over the internet without the kids being able to find out on my main
>computer at home? (Which they use alot)

Yep. I'll assume you have a broadband connection. Purchase one of
the numerous internet cameras, that have a built in web server. The
really fancy ones also have remote zoom, pan, and swivel. Set it up
on your LAN (ethernet or wireless) and point it at the kids. If you
don't have a static (fixed) IP address, subscribe to one of the
numerous dynamic DNS services so that you can find your home IP
address. Redirect the necessary IP ports, in your router
configuration, to the camera. It's all in the instructions. From
work, just run something like:
http://yourhome.dyndns.com:5000
where the URL is whatever you setup as a dynamic DNS name, and the
5000 is what I vaguely recall is the default port for DLink. Most
cameras include audio, so you can also listen.

Just one flaw in this method. If your kids have an IQ over 100, they
will instantly find the camera and find a way to defeat or circumvent
it. If their IQ is under 100, they will instantly find a way to
destroy it.

Drivel: I wanted to monitor what my worthless cat was inviting to
share his food. So, I setup a very large camcorder on a tripod, in
the living room, and pointed it at the doorway. I used an IR motion
detector to trigger the recorder. I got a few odd photos as various
neighborhood cats arrived, ate, and escaped. However, I had an
interesting suprise when I taped my neighbors 10 and 13 year old
brats, burglarizing my house. How they could have missed seeing the
camera is beyond my limited imagination. When they denied performing
the burglary, I played the video for their horrified parents.


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Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 AE6KS 831-336-2558

network ip camera has nothing to do with your other comps, but their
connections will be in a router unless you have multiple ip from
isp-provider.

You may want to seek professional help.
Kids deserve privacy

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am new to computers and wireless. I am gone alot from my house and
> would like to know what is going on in there while I am gone.
> (Especially children).
>
> Is there a way I can monitor rooms in my house from my computer at work
> over the internet without the kids being able to find out on my main
> computer at home? (Which they use alot)
>

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>Is there a way I can monitor rooms in my house from my computer at work
>over the internet without the kids being able to find out on my main
>computer at home? (Which they use alot)

The D-Link DCS-900W has it's own WWWebserver, so you can watch stills
or motion video from any browser with the appropriate passwords. You
have to poke the appropriate holes in your firewall and manually set
up some dynamic DNS, but it works pretty well. It may, however,
noticably impact your bandwidth, so even with the activity light on
the camera turned off, the kids may notice (even if they don't notice
the flashing lights on the router/modem.)

[Another "is it crap?" product from DLink. Turns out a carefully
crafted URL will enable you to bypass the password protection, and
while it supports automatic DDNS updates, it hands out the DHCP
address it got from _your_ router, which isn't very useful. There's a
2.28 firmware update that I haven't applied yet, but it doesn't
mention those two misfeatures. Sigh.]

How old are your kids? Are they smart enough to unplug the silly
thing, hard-reset it, or block it's lens? I'm not a big fan of
technical solutions to social problems...

<William P.N. Smith> wrote in
< a carefully crafted URL will enable you to bypass the password protection

how about a hint on what u speak
I've several of those and despise the requirement of login/pass for cam
access other than admin

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:57:29 GMT, "bumtracks" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

><William P.N. Smith> wrote in
>< a carefully crafted URL will enable you to bypass the password protection

>how about a hint on what u speak
>I've several of those and despise the requirement of login/pass for cam
>access other than admin

Webcam servers are a bit like Swiss cheeze. Full of holes.

For DCS-900, See:
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Aug/1011100.html

Then, go unto to the search page at:
http://search.securitytracker.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl
and use "webcam" as the keyword for 22 assorted vulnerabilites with
webcams. You might also find the keywords "camera" (22 hits) or
"dlink" (13 hits) of interest.

Oh swell. Microsoft ASP.NET with a hole due to hand crafted URL's.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/20..._password.html


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Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 AE6KS 831-336-2558

"Jeff Liebermann" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Webcam servers are a bit like Swiss cheeze. Full of holes.

It is interesting that builders of security devices seem to follow the
microsoft "security" model. I was working with one network accessable that
didn't even allow for a simple password. If you found the device you owned
it and the network it was running on.



>
> For DCS-900, See:
> http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Aug/1011100.html
>
> Then, go unto to the search page at:
> http://search.securitytracker.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl
> and use "webcam" as the keyword for 22 assorted vulnerabilites with
> webcams. You might also find the keywords "camera" (22 hits) or
> "dlink" (13 hits) of interest.
>
> Oh swell. Microsoft ASP.NET with a hole due to hand crafted URL's.
>
>
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/20..._password.html
>
>
> --
> Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
> 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
> Santa Cruz CA 95060 AE6KS 831-336-2558