Recent content by Alistair Hardy

I am not aloud to mount it outside, and wall mounting isn't practical, especially as it sits in my bedroom. I live in an apartment block

It's to be placed on a windowsill, looking through a glass window at my motorbike. My flat is one floor up from the ground, so the ability to have it looking a bit down is needed. Obviously can't use IR because of the glass, so that's neither here nor there. Look at this thread for how far it...

Now you see why I'm trying to replace it! They seem hard to come by here in the UK. Though this one is here

Advice taken. What would you replace a Foscam R2 with then? I'm hoping to get something in the same vein (pan \ tilt, can be placed on a windowsill) at a price point sub £130...

So, Amazon have started pushing this brand on me and their website seems to up to date with current website trends. Has anyone had any experience with them? Looking at the Reolink C2 to replace my Foscam R2 at the moment https://reolink.com/product/c2-pro

So, I'm looking to update my microserver from a Gen7 as the poor AMD Turon 1.8GHz duel core struggles to run windows, let alone anything else. And, as I'm learning my DevOps craft, the poor thing takes a beating regularly. My requirements are as follows BlueIris (single camera for now, looking...

Just got off the phone. It was a setting that's only available on the live video feed through the camera's web UI called NAA. This setting makes the camera try to auto adjust it's output for network conditions. However, it's pretty bad at doing that. Odd place to put such a key setting. It's now...

I contacted Foscam UK through Facebook and they've organised an engineer to call me on Friday. Surprised me how easy that was...

I was on a pretty tight budget and there isn't much selection these days for cameras that allow you to record to your own NVR (I'm looking at you, LG & Netgear, Hive & Nest). I needed one that I could just place on the side, with pan & tilt so I could get it to look down on the car park. I would...

Nope, it was me putting rstp instead of rtsp :facepalm: Anyway, it appears to be the camera. VLC is having the same issues. I've emailed foscam support and hopefully their support is half decent...

For some reason, I'm unable to open the network stream in VLC. The format is rstp://<username>:<password>@192.168.0.240:88/videoMain ?

Partners out for the night so I can actually do that for once. I've just run some CAT6 from the switch on my desk to the camera in the bedroom window and it's still the same.. 3 Screenshots here. After coming back from placing the cable After forcing the camera feed to reconnect After 10...

Sadly no joy. When I update the settings, the bit rate goes up to about 500kB/s and then sinks. Quality is maintained until it drops below 100Kb/s, then it just goes down the toilet. Initially, you can clearly make out the alloy wheels on the blue car on the right and make out some of the cars...

I changed it from to powerline from wifi to see if it made a difference, sandly not the case. I've updated the settings as proposed by SouthernYankee and we'll see how it goes. When I move out of this flat and into a proper house, I'm going to run cat6 everywhere, properly. Because it's just so...

Hi. So basically, the picture quality I'm getting from my Foscam R2 is abysmal. Day or Night it's a pixelated mess The above is what it's looking like now. And day time is no better. When the connection first starts, it's crisp and clear, but after a minute, it goes right back to what you're...