Ive been horribly sick, so I havent been online much.
The speed and smoothness is great on the LAN, even with 4 windows open, which I think is the max the camera will do. So the jumpyness is either my ISP uplink or the cell downspeed.
Recording looks AMAZING even in pitch black. Im really thinking the images look a lot better indoors than outside though. I still havent checked to see if it can read a license plate, which is one of my main objectives, no point in capturing all kinds of faces if you have no names to start with. However I think this will be very neat for watching for deliveries and checking if someone is here and the like regardless.
As far as wireless, keep in mind the IP address will change when you go on the wireless network, probably one above the IP you get when wired, but use the camera detection tool. You need to make sure you configure your wireless network right though, the camera shows you a much more techy version than windows, allowing you to select WEP, WPA or WPA2. If you dont know, you'll have to check windows on a computer you have connected or check the router itself, you also need to know the excryption, AES or TKIP, which you will also have to get or guess at.
The email on alarm looks great, easy to setup with gmail, however make sure you click "submit" before you hit the test button every time, the english on this product leaves a little to be desired and its easy to misunderstand some of the instructions.
The record on alarm works okay as well, it misses about the first second or so of motion, but should be fine, and records in 1 minute increminets while (optionally) beeping on the computer. I havent confirmed if it will record one 5 minute file or 5 1 minute files if there is continuous motion.
The alarm input and outputs, while I havent tested them, look really neat, I cant even get my head around all the things I could do with it and my x10 setup.
Also, I havent confirmed if it will still email on alarm with the PC off, Im doubting it though.
The alarm settings Im having issues with, I cant get it to alarm for anything on level "5" moving it up towards 10 makes it alarm on every little thing, Im sure it just needs adjusted once installed in a permanent location.
You want to view the camera from a hotel room, or take it with you to the hotel? lol. Im assuming view your house from a hotel, which is easy, just set your wireless router to port forward to the camera. You will want to set a static IP on your camera, otherwise it would break anytime its dynamic address changed, then set a port on the camera other than 80, something higher, everything looks for 80 when scanning public networks for exploits. Anyway, on the camera set a static IP and port, then on the firewall under "port forwarding" or maybe "applications and games" or whatever your router calls it, just tell it to forward traffic to that port to the IP address of the camera on the same port.
I havent messed with the DDNS settings, not familiar with that, but it is configuration relevant to remote viewing, but im not sure if it would allow you to do it without the port forward.
Also, I have no idea the firmware on these cameras, but I doubt if its hardened, you might want to restrict access to the public facing port on your firewall, the potential exists for someone to exploit the camera and gain access to your home network, though its a longshot.
I put another camera on my xmas list
Might still need a couple more. Definitely one outside and one inside.
