CamserverFile

Category:Sasecurity
There are VERY few webcams that work with Mesh AP. And
its very difficult to tell.
They need to have an stv680 chipset in them. Apitek
Pencam's do, as do OLD Lespion Mini's, the new ones do
not work. However the picture quaility is appaling. If
your serious I sugest getting either a IP cam or a
wireless IP cam.
There's an image from a Lespoin mini on
http://www.piertopier.net/webcams.htm - note its down
at the minute, due to an ADSL problem, the good
picture is an Axis 2120 IP cam on wireless. (aprox
£500 - needs cleaning I know)
To actually get a webcam to work on MeahAP you need to
enable the webcam option in wiana, then edit the
/usr/local/share/camserv/camserv.cfg file. Or more
precisly the camserv.master file. Which is used to
write the camserv.cfg on boot.
The Image from the webcam can be seen with
http://node.ip.here:10192/singlframe. leave off the
/singleframe to stream (Doesn't work on IE.
Netscape-Mozzilla/Opera/etc only) assuming the 10192
poot is the one specified in camserv.cfg
Even so you cannot see it from the internet unless its
a gateway without some portforwarding. Then only from
the net not the mesh. If you want both you need to
Reverse Proxy it. Its much easier to get an IP Cam.
I'll send you a camserv.cfg/camserv.master example if
you want though.
Tom PierToPier.net
=== Axis camera ===
We've got an Axis 2120 as our good ip camera, it talks
to a mesh box fine, however I think its got a WAP 11
or something to make it Wireless, I think a Cheap
bridge/Accesspoint was cheaper than the wireless
module for it. The camera's are very good (as used by
the internet porn industry I'm told). However they're
pretty expencive.
They Make whatproof housings for them.
Tom