Webcams on LAN

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Hi,

I have a couple of live cams on my LAN - they FTP their images to the internet every few seconds.

Trouble is, I can’t get WD to grab images - the cams have ip addresses on my network and the images have http:etc.etc addresses, but how do I get WD to pick them up ?

Anything other than a windoze filename gives an error i.e. I can’t put the http location into the adddress box …

thanks.

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I can’t answer your question :frowning: but I am interested in LAN webcams, what type do you have and how well do they work (aside from the WD issue)?

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Hi,

They’re Axis 2100’s. The trouble is you aren’t supoposed to point them out of a window into direct sunlight. 8)

Which is a problem if you want to observe weather data, unless it’s raining of course ! :wink:

See for yourself :-

http://www.devilsdyke.net/dykecamlive.htm

I’ve had these pointint outside for about a year and they’re okay up to now (it damages the ccd eventually).

They’re about