I was looking around the internet for a replacement security camera. It's a bit overwhelming since I'm learning all this tech stuff. I'm great at keeping my pets happy, healthy and have a long life or growing 5lb tomatoes, not so much with technology. I'm still learning the terms. My other half was great at it and handled all the tech stuff, but unfortunately he died a little over a year ago. So I've been on a crash course of learning how to keep the network and cameras up. When we decided to put outdoor security cameras up was because of a bad neighbor. they on purpose would damage the fence and/or let/command their dangerous dog charge it, and property would go missing or be damage (egging house), etc. Every member of my family has almost been bitten. For these reasons we decided to document what was going on and at time didn't have much money (I'm on ssi) and the foscam seamed to meet our needs. After the foscam went up, we learned that these neighbors were also selling drugs to high school kids. Luckily, they moved after a year of these cameras being up. Luckily least some of the foscams were working this spring when some people came by around 4am checking all my neighbor's car doors. once they saw my cameras they covered their face and passed by my place.
My security cameras are hooked up to the router/switch which 1 pc controls. The cameras can be viewed by that and 1 other pc, both pc's are wired in the system/network. Blue iris is on a different pc. This system has been working since mid '14.....well when the cameras aren't timed out.....or rebooting themselves. When my other 1/2 set up this system, we decided to keep the wired security system in the network only although these cameras can go online if enabled and they can be either wired or wireless. Wireless seemed unstable. We on purpose made the pc that can't control the router to control the program Blue Iris. either of these pc's can access the camera, but my pc has a easier time finding them. The PC's are using windows 7. The plan was to have the Foscam FI9828W 1.3 Megapixel (1280x960p) 3x optical zoom wireless (mine are wired) outdoor PTZ IP Camera on the corners of the house with some bullet camera like by the front door, gate. We got as far as to get 3 dome cameras up. The only wireless camera is a d-link indoor and its on only at night. It stopped a member of the family from going in the kitchen and eating food with their fingers, and it watches the back door.
I have a foscam that died after about 1.5 to 2 yrs of use. It's a Foscam FI9828W 1.3 Megapixel (1280x960p) 3x optical zoom wireless (mine are wired) outdoor PTZ IP Camera it's hooked up to blue iris that shows/records all the cams. So what ever I get MUST be compatible with it. With the camera that went down, it stopped working about 6 months ago. It was working fine then no lights on, (there are lights on the LAN port) a hard reset and unplugging/plug all connection in the camera doesn't do anything. changing to another outlet and changing the power cord still nothing the camera just sits there not moving. With no power, I can't try any trouble shooting. I think it may be defective, but from what I've read on reviews on the foscam FI9828w..... that cam was on the market for roughly a year when I bought mine. back then the reviews were good. Now days they are mostly bad with any camera over a year old. night vision fails, timeout, sudden dead camera, cameras rebooting themselves. Some ppl who at first gave a 4 or 5 star review came back and gave a 1 star. If these reviews were there to read. I would of never gotten these Foscam cameras; the same problems I have seem to be wide spread, poor quality control.
Ideally I want the same features. eventually I'll be replacing all foscams (as they die), but first I need to find a quality brand that I can get the bang out of the buck.
Any ideas?
Thank you in advance
My security cameras are hooked up to the router/switch which 1 pc controls. The cameras can be viewed by that and 1 other pc, both pc's are wired in the system/network. Blue iris is on a different pc. This system has been working since mid '14.....well when the cameras aren't timed out.....or rebooting themselves. When my other 1/2 set up this system, we decided to keep the wired security system in the network only although these cameras can go online if enabled and they can be either wired or wireless. Wireless seemed unstable. We on purpose made the pc that can't control the router to control the program Blue Iris. either of these pc's can access the camera, but my pc has a easier time finding them. The PC's are using windows 7. The plan was to have the Foscam FI9828W 1.3 Megapixel (1280x960p) 3x optical zoom wireless (mine are wired) outdoor PTZ IP Camera on the corners of the house with some bullet camera like by the front door, gate. We got as far as to get 3 dome cameras up. The only wireless camera is a d-link indoor and its on only at night. It stopped a member of the family from going in the kitchen and eating food with their fingers, and it watches the back door.
I have a foscam that died after about 1.5 to 2 yrs of use. It's a Foscam FI9828W 1.3 Megapixel (1280x960p) 3x optical zoom wireless (mine are wired) outdoor PTZ IP Camera it's hooked up to blue iris that shows/records all the cams. So what ever I get MUST be compatible with it. With the camera that went down, it stopped working about 6 months ago. It was working fine then no lights on, (there are lights on the LAN port) a hard reset and unplugging/plug all connection in the camera doesn't do anything. changing to another outlet and changing the power cord still nothing the camera just sits there not moving. With no power, I can't try any trouble shooting. I think it may be defective, but from what I've read on reviews on the foscam FI9828w..... that cam was on the market for roughly a year when I bought mine. back then the reviews were good. Now days they are mostly bad with any camera over a year old. night vision fails, timeout, sudden dead camera, cameras rebooting themselves. Some ppl who at first gave a 4 or 5 star review came back and gave a 1 star. If these reviews were there to read. I would of never gotten these Foscam cameras; the same problems I have seem to be wide spread, poor quality control.
Ideally I want the same features. eventually I'll be replacing all foscams (as they die), but first I need to find a quality brand that I can get the bang out of the buck.
Any ideas?
Thank you in advance