My wife bought me a camera specifically designed to go inside a bird box to supplement my existing UNV camera which I use to monitor from the outside. This was bought from a specialist company in the UK.
Physically the device is fine but I had expected the software to be similar to implement but it turned out to use cloud P2P and to be based upon a Xiongmai device - uses Xmeye or CMS to access from Windows. Now, I have read about the potential security issues surrounding this supplier and technology and the way it totally circumvents my firewall (although I can see why this method - minus the weak security - might be attractive to a non tech savvy user).
My question is - is it possible to configure this camera to communicate locally without the P2P/cloud component? I have tried to capture packets on my network using wireshark on my laptop whilst trying all sorts of things to talk to it but have never seen any traffic at all and it doesnt seem to respond to ONVIF device manager or anything else. Surely it must be able to talk without its cloud server being involved?
All help greatly appreciated - I realise some of you may say "send it back" - it may come to that but I want to use the return window to check out other options first and I have no idea what I would get instead.
Wallport
Physically the device is fine but I had expected the software to be similar to implement but it turned out to use cloud P2P and to be based upon a Xiongmai device - uses Xmeye or CMS to access from Windows. Now, I have read about the potential security issues surrounding this supplier and technology and the way it totally circumvents my firewall (although I can see why this method - minus the weak security - might be attractive to a non tech savvy user).
My question is - is it possible to configure this camera to communicate locally without the P2P/cloud component? I have tried to capture packets on my network using wireshark on my laptop whilst trying all sorts of things to talk to it but have never seen any traffic at all and it doesnt seem to respond to ONVIF device manager or anything else. Surely it must be able to talk without its cloud server being involved?
All help greatly appreciated - I realise some of you may say "send it back" - it may come to that but I want to use the return window to check out other options first and I have no idea what I would get instead.
Wallport