Stewart Island Webcam issues

[Wolfie33]

Peter at Sails Ashore Lodge, Stewart Island has had a few issues lately after an upgrade of the data link to the "mainland". His webcam has been affected.

Here's some of his comments
The Islands data link to the mainland has just been up graded, and since then we’d been having significant short term outages, across all systems. … from a few seconds to several minutes. Which played havoc with the weather underground upload for some reason.

Wasn’t sure what the issue was and so replaced our modem / Wi-Fi router. Not so many outages but still happening. Our weather station has a dedicated pc (pretty ancient running Vista) and is a wired LAN.

Yesterday I moved the router to my desk, and the connection is now Wi-Fi___33, and for some reason everything seems OK now.

The old router was wep encryption, the new one is WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK. Had to change everything, which all went well, except our Wi-Fi___33 web cam couldn’t hack it and has died…. sigh.   More expense.

Later . . .
There is now more to the story, as all the historic uploads (last 12 months etc) are all for year 2060.
It seems to be an issue in the old PC, as I’ve run a quick and dirty on my windows 10 machine and all OK.
So I’ll do a reinstall and see what happens… tomorrow, as its now past midnight.
in frustration…. Peter
 

http://www.sailsashore.co.nz/images/cam/snapshot1.jpg

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[Wolfie33]

More from Peter at Sails Ashore Lodge, Stewart Island . . .

We have a new d-link web cam, which I think is much better, but the software is useless. Won’t run on Windows 10 at all, something to do with an unsigned security file. But my met machine is an old (very old) XP and I could get the camera set up with that as XP isn’t so picky re signed security. . But not directly view in any of the three browsers, as it keeps demanding QuickTime player, which is installed, but apparently not visible to the machine.  So picture adjustment is ploody difficult.

Upload to my web site, view, adjust, upload again, assess, change, upload…. ad nauseum .

I would NOT recommend the camera, solely because of the software.

Cheers…….. Peter

Any suggestions people??
Cheers

[gabba]

What model was it? I put three d-links in recently and all were fine I use a range on win 10, and win 7 machines

Admin note: topic split to ensure this thread got the right focus ;-)

[PMT]

Cam is a D-Link DCS-3010. I've tried Chrome, Firefox and IE. OS Windows 10 ( 2 machines) & Xp. Also 2 android tablets and an IPad

For streaming it demands QuickTime 7.7.2.0

But it's going, it would just be nice if the software wasn't so cranky.

Cheers.. peter

[gabba]

Hi (And welcome!!!)

That looks like an oldish cam. The manual suggests it works up to win 7, but not 8.8.1 or 10 so it's a few years old.

If you wanted to try it again on a win 10 machine it might work better in compatibility mode - but no guarantees ;-)

Glad it's working(ish) though!

[TonyC]

Have you tried using iSpy which is freeware?
It appears to support your camera.
https://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=D-Link
I use this software on an old XP computer for my two webcams capturing still shots every 60 seconds.

regards,

Tony C.

[davidrg]

Got to be careful using QuickTime and Windows XP these days - both have known security vulnerabilities that will never be fixed.

I ended up using an IP camera to avoid software issues like this as it had to work easily from a Raspberry Pi and a requirement like QuickTime or some other random windows app would have been problematic