Dockmaster
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A few of my friends purchased the n62 cameras for their homes and loved them. then they wanted to set them up at our sailing club and want to purchase 5 or 6 more The overall concept is a grand idea, but when I did some testing with them found some setbacks that make me resistant to purchasing or recommending them.
the cameras once configured by the owners work great and no mater where or what internet the cameras are plugged in to, the owners on their cellphone can see all of then. Even taking one to my home they could see it within minutes.
Problems:
1) None of the cameras can by programmed via the lan cable via a laptop or PC computer, you have to use android. in doing so this company loses hundreds of sales restricting their market as is NOT pc or laptop compatible. there should be a html logon added to the camera firmware like other ip cameras do.
2) The cms client software on the laptop can only see the cameras on the same lan; if you tried to remotely connect from a different location they never connect.
3) the cms client software wont save or store the ip info of each camera, each time to you click on the ip config all the data disappears. any ip data you enter is not there when you come back to view/edit it. the auto detect work ok but shows no ip data. my older camera ip software that can even run on windows 95 blows this cms client away.
4) for remote access I used my router dhcp info to get the camera ip and mac address plus I used a ip scanner to verify. I used a port scanner to see what port the camera used 554. then at the remote site where the cameras were set at set up I the firewall to allow outside access to the canera ip plus port 554. after numerous tries the cms still would not connect. I used gibsons shields up to veryify that the port was open to the internet.
i did a 3rd test I have two different cable modems with different routers sitting side by side and and could not jump from one network to the other to remotely see the camera with the cms software. i was using the latest version of the software and even in English mode some of the options wording ptp rstp still had foreign language characters in it making the third option unknown. i spent about 8 hours on this trying to get them to connect directly.
I could be wrong but it seems that everything has to go though their own servers and for security thats bad as if their servers go down or you cannot connect hence all your cameras go down.
how can it work perfectly on the cell phones via their server but not directly point to point on the cms software, i noticed this camera is branded as fuers, but also see that kerui and golden are same, which one is the clone?
i need to access the cameras on a computer to configure and also to upload the feeds to a website. this product seems not to fit that need.
disappointed.
the cameras once configured by the owners work great and no mater where or what internet the cameras are plugged in to, the owners on their cellphone can see all of then. Even taking one to my home they could see it within minutes.
Problems:
1) None of the cameras can by programmed via the lan cable via a laptop or PC computer, you have to use android. in doing so this company loses hundreds of sales restricting their market as is NOT pc or laptop compatible. there should be a html logon added to the camera firmware like other ip cameras do.
2) The cms client software on the laptop can only see the cameras on the same lan; if you tried to remotely connect from a different location they never connect.
3) the cms client software wont save or store the ip info of each camera, each time to you click on the ip config all the data disappears. any ip data you enter is not there when you come back to view/edit it. the auto detect work ok but shows no ip data. my older camera ip software that can even run on windows 95 blows this cms client away.
4) for remote access I used my router dhcp info to get the camera ip and mac address plus I used a ip scanner to verify. I used a port scanner to see what port the camera used 554. then at the remote site where the cameras were set at set up I the firewall to allow outside access to the canera ip plus port 554. after numerous tries the cms still would not connect. I used gibsons shields up to veryify that the port was open to the internet.
i did a 3rd test I have two different cable modems with different routers sitting side by side and and could not jump from one network to the other to remotely see the camera with the cms software. i was using the latest version of the software and even in English mode some of the options wording ptp rstp still had foreign language characters in it making the third option unknown. i spent about 8 hours on this trying to get them to connect directly.
I could be wrong but it seems that everything has to go though their own servers and for security thats bad as if their servers go down or you cannot connect hence all your cameras go down.
how can it work perfectly on the cell phones via their server but not directly point to point on the cms software, i noticed this camera is branded as fuers, but also see that kerui and golden are same, which one is the clone?
i need to access the cameras on a computer to configure and also to upload the feeds to a website. this product seems not to fit that need.
disappointed.
