Reef Angel Forum

With summer coming up we might go out of town for vacation and I know people have web cams set up on there tanks. Do the run them through a computer or is that something that can be run through reef angel? I would like to be able to check my tank make sure nothing is wrong without having some one stopping by everyday.

I have a dlink dcs-900l i believe is the model. Its wireless and doesn't need the computer hooked up. Theres an iphone app to view it.

Does it just run through your router?

Yep

I have three cameras of varying prices, all IP cam's like Lee said and I agree with him. The little inexpensive dlink is my favorite.

The only problem I have had, and it's fixable, just haven't done it, is to give it a static ip address. I'll go out of town, Comcast (or my router) will decide to refresh (change) ip addresses, then I can't view it. Manage that and it'll work like a charm. Thx

Cool thanks for the info. How is the view quality of the dlink? Pretty clear or is it blurry

Heres some old samples of mine:

http://forum.reefangel.com/viewtopic.php?p=16630#p16630

The links for my mount and the fisheye lens are in that thread as well

I got my web camera set up.
I need to re-position it closer to the tank, but I need to experiment with that.
The current IP address is 65.3.98.138:2010 User Name is Fish Tank.
I'm now trying to figure out how to get it to work with my noip.com name of sacohen.no-ip.biz

It should work with the hostname :2010

lnevo wrote:It should work with the hostname :2010

That's what I thought too, but it doesn't.

http://sacohen.no-ip.biz:2010/

I've gotta tackle that tomorrow.

Because your no-ip resolves to a very different ip. Not sure how no-ip works. Maybe you need to configure the port forwarding there...


Non-authoritative answer:
Name: sacohen.no-ip.biz
Address: 8.23.224.90

Strange because the host name works fine with the Andriod App.
It gets the info from there as well as let's me turn on or off ports

I picked up the dlink 930l got it set up through dlink. On the portal page under one of the tabs there's a place to put your webcam link. What is that for?

jjdezek wrote:I picked up the dlink 930l got it set up through dlink. On the portal page under one of the tabs there's a place to put your webcam link. What is that for?

It's to put your IP address or Host name and the stream will show up in the portal.

How do you set this thing up so you don't need a password to view it?

Under the setup portion there is an area for a 2nd login (or something like that) just enter a username without a password and viewers just need to enter the username to view it no password.

got it thanks.