Thinking of upgrading from EasyN

[Setatone]

I've been running BI for about two years (up to date) - I live in a ground floor condo with a fenced in garden - I have one D-Link wifi camera inside looking out and an EasyN coach light looking thing (Ebay $120). Every 6 months or so the Easy N completely gives up it's wifi capability - I usually take it down, wire it up with an ethernet cable and go through a thousand forgettable troubleshooting measures until it works again.

I've inquired here before and If I recall - received the smackdown - "what are you buying cheap crap cameras for?" .

Can anyone suggest a model? Anyone suggest some tricks to wake up the EasyN?

 

[looney2ns]

Wifi for cams can be very hit and miss.

When the EasyN stops working, have you tried power cycling your router instead?

Any of the Dahua Starlight model cams.

 

[Setatone]

Yes, I have tried power cycling the modem. When this happened a couple of months ago I still had the box the EasyN came in - and I got the phone App up and running by scanning the bar code on the box. It always seemed the phone app could 'see' the camera when BI or a browser couldn't. I downloaded ONVIF just to see if I could get more insight into the camera - it said the camera appeared to have grabbed another IP address 192.168.2.11(port 81) instead of 10. - so I finally got it running wirelessly on my desk using the new IP - but when I powered it off and installed it outside on the fence - it forgot it's configuration again...that IP was DHCP not static - when it comes to port forwarding or messing with the router - I'm pretty dumb.

 

[Setatone]

I never actually used any of the EasyN profiles in the Video set up in Blue Iris - I used Foscam as a brand - and kept trying until one worked...

 

[looney2ns]

Try setting a static IP in the camera.