Wireless IP Camera thread

[alexlau]

Good morning to all superusers

May I know whether anyone has tried to record videos from AzTech WIPC408 and WIPC410HD to Synology NAS?

I'm looking for 2 IPCams - preferably HD quality - that can record into Synology. Synology website indicates it supports WIPC409, but no mention of the two models above, hence the question...

I'm keen to Foscam as well, so if anyone selling, do let me know Thank you for the suggestions and help! Have a nice day~

 

[Gribber]

Good morning to all superusers

May I know whether anyone has tried to record videos from AzTech WIPC408 and WIPC410HD to Synology NAS?

I'm looking for 2 IPCams - preferably HD quality - that can record into Synology. Synology website indicates it supports WIPC409, but no mention of the two models above, hence the question...

I'm keen to Foscam as well, so if anyone selling, do let me know Thank you for the suggestions and help! Have a nice day~

A suggestion, if you buying foscam - go direct to foscam. You will get it cheaper

 

[alexlau]

A suggestion, if you buying foscam - go direct to foscam. You will get it cheaper

Thank you for the advise! May I know which "foscam" is the one? is it foscam.com.sg (which leads to aceperipherals.com) or foscam.us?

 

[Gribber]

Thank you for the advise! May I know which "foscam" is the one? is it foscam.com.sg (which leads to aceperipherals.com) or foscam.us?

no, no distributor.

http://foscam.sg/

 

[alexlau]

That is before you warn me. so Now I'm still searching..
I'm contemplating between... Dlink to foscam ip camera. It seems Dlink have more review compare to foscam.

Dear Blueve,

I'm looking for IP cameras as well, seems Vstarcam is having too many bad reviews.

I think for your case, you may have to look at storage convenience as well, since recording is a concern for you. So far NAS like Synology, QNAP and Asustor are good for this, since they all have a "surveillance station" that allows you to connect to multiple cameras and record all of them in one place, so that you don't have to put a SD card to each camera and browse them one by one later.

In this case, you may want to look at the models that are supported by these NAS. Here're the pages that you can view the list of all supported cameras.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility/camera
https://www.qnap.com/i/en/product_x_grade/cat_intro.php?g_cat=18
http://www.asustor.com/service/ipcam?id=ipcam

From this list, it seems most models from D-Link, Foscam, etc, are well supported...

 

[geckoSG]

foscam.com.sg can also. They r MY distributor but have SG office here. They have complete solutions here. Every shows they have a booth. So you can consider them

 

[davidau]

Dear Blueve,

I'm looking for IP cameras as well, seems Vstarcam is having too many bad reviews.

I think for your case, you may have to look at storage convenience as well, since recording is a concern for you. So far NAS like Synology, QNAP and Asustor are good for this, since they all have a "surveillance station" that allows you to connect to multiple cameras and record all of them in one place, so that you don't have to put a SD card to each camera and browse them one by one later.

In this case, you may want to look at the models that are supported by these NAS. Here're the pages that you can view the list of all supported cameras.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility/camera
https://www.qnap.com/i/en/product_x_grade/cat_intro.php?g_cat=18
http://www.asustor.com/service/ipcam?id=ipcam

From this list, it seems most models from D-Link, Foscam, etc, are well supported...

Hello, seems like you know.IP Camera and NAS very well, do you about is this NAS support for sambal recording?

 

[geckoSG]

all nas support sambal access, so its relatively if ip camera supports network path mapping to save clips. Foscam have these features from my last experience

 

[Dr_ARCHer]

which 3rd party apps that you are using?

Robert Chou's IP Cam Viewer. I have both the iOS and the Android version. Works with all my cameras (over 30 of them) of different brands and models (Linksys, DLink, VStarCam, Aztech, Foscam, Trendnet, SMC, Panasonic, Samsung, Edimax, Sineoji, TPLink and OEM models).

 

[geckoSG]

it does not work well with vstarcam, every firmware upgrade, somethings will fail (vstarcam issue i believe). C7837WIP cannot work with the IP camera APP. Tested and frustrated over such differences in firmware across cameras using same chipsets.

 

[davidau]

Wow. Thanks for the sharing. Do it support multi camera viewing?

 

[Valour]

I have 4 units. All comes with auto reboot issue. Marix/vstarcam tried to resolve it but to no avail. Hence they are generous enough to refund me.

Went on to get other models and never look back since.

Thanks for sharing, from time to time I would have friends asking me for advise, I usually won't say no, but I would take some time to read up since I don't use a IP camera myself lol. Your info is helpful.

 

[geckoSG]

Wow. Thanks for the sharing. Do it support multi camera viewing?

If u r talking abt robert chou's SW, yes it does. Supports a lot of views in single screen.

Vstarcam's old app support alot but now n then due to firmware upgrade differences, you might see some hiccups.

 

[geckoSG]

actually, auto reboot feature by vstarcam is good in such a way that it allows the camera to try to recover its connectivity to the network by itself.

However, if there is no log file to show users what causes network break (in order for them to prove break is not their fault), this feature is often seen as a camera fault.

But the recent firmware upgrades really is a disappointment for the T & C series. Lots of reboots caused by recording problem on microsd.

 

[Gribber]

Thanks for sharing, from time to time I would have friends asking me for advise, I usually won't say no, but I would take some time to read up since I don't use a IP camera myself lol. Your info is helpful.

you are welcome.

 

[Gribber]

actually, auto reboot feature by vstarcam is good in such a way that it allows the camera to try to recover its connectivity to the network by itself.

However, if there is no log file to show users what causes network break (in order for them to prove break is not their fault), this feature is often seen as a camera fault.

But the recent firmware upgrades really is a disappointment for the T & C series. Lots of reboots caused by recording problem on microsd.

rubbish.

Why i say was rubbish

1. the reboot time was damn long. Compared to Foscam from off to on was like a mere 20s. The Vstarcam took more than 5-10 minutes to start! Imaging it having to restart every day for more than 10 times! The footage loss was tremendous!

It could be faster, could be slower. Really damn jialat. I can turn off all 4 cameras and and on them at the same time only to find out, not all 4 start simultaneously. The timing gap varies so much that i almost cried.

Next, the firmware auto updated by itself. I have already went to the "not supposed to enter GUI" to uncheck it, yet it still auto update. Vstarcam told me to downgrade the firmware, i downgrade it. A week or so, it becomes updated to the latest despite having the firmware update configured as unchecked.

Next, camera viewing angle stated 115 degrees (iirc-lazy to check). All i could see was a mere 75-85 degrees.

My Foscam C1 on paper also state 115 and i could see much bigger viewing angle that i can't with Vstarcam.

the other cam just connects. I don't know why vstarcam so special have to reboot to resolve network??? What **** is that?

The hardware i gotta agree was decent, the firmware sucks max.


Spoken from my experience with Vstarcam - your mileage might varies.

 

[geckoSG]

errr, 5~10 minutes to reboot? Doesnt sounds right to me. I have never seen such a long reboot before.

Unless you are talking about the time it took for you to be able to see the cameras 'online'

So, what cameras are you using right now? All foscam?

 

[davidau]

If u r talking abt robert chou's SW, yes it does. Supports a lot of views in single screen.

Vstarcam's old app support alot but now n then due to firmware upgrade differences, you might see some hiccups.

All viewing is live video streaming simultaneously? or have to tap the select one then become live streaming?

 

[davidau]

rubbish.

Why i say was rubbish

1. the reboot time was damn long. Compared to Foscam from off to on was like a mere 20s. The Vstarcam took more than 5-10 minutes to start! Imaging it having to restart every day for more than 10 times! The footage loss was tremendous!

It could be faster, could be slower. Really damn jialat. I can turn off all 4 cameras and and on them at the same time only to find out, not all 4 start simultaneously. The timing gap varies so much that i almost cried.

Next, the firmware auto updated by itself. I have already went to the "not supposed to enter GUI" to uncheck it, yet it still auto update. Vstarcam told me to downgrade the firmware, i downgrade it. A week or so, it becomes updated to the latest despite having the firmware update configured as unchecked.

Next, camera viewing angle stated 115 degrees (iirc-lazy to check). All i could see was a mere 75-85 degrees.

My Foscam C1 on paper also state 115 and i could see much bigger viewing angle that i can't with Vstarcam.

the other cam just connects. I don't know why vstarcam so special have to reboot to resolve network??? What **** is that?

The hardware i gotta agree was decent, the firmware sucks max.


Spoken from my experience with Vstarcam - your mileage might varies.

Wah, so much problems with Vstarcam. I would not consider to buy this brand. Anyway mind to share which model that you are having now?

 

[geckoSG]

Was having lunch earlier with one of the senior tech at MARIX, told them about the issue Gribber was talking about here. As far as they are aware of, they only did refund for T Alarm series.

Gribber, you seems to have purchased a single LOT of the defective products by VStarcam, which they (VStarcam) are unable to resolve til today nor trace out the reason why the cameras auto-reboots by itself or sounded its own alarm for no apparent reason, hence MARIX decided to refund your purchase.

As far as T Series (non-alarm), there wasn't any recent returns, but they are are not willing to discuss on the stability of the T & C Series. Only thing I noticed that he smile and shakes his head at times in dismay when we talk about the latest firmware.