help with setting up my nanny reefcam.

[Buster]

Right call me thick but I need someone to show me a step by step way of setting my new d-link dcs-2120 camera up so I can veiw it remotely from anywhere other than my wireless network. I have set it up so I can veiw the image from any pc in the house I do have a wireless router/modem/gateway. but just can't get my head round doing the rest of it?????? help anyone?

the camera in question. (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=3774)

[Dons1903]

Ian,

To view the images from outside your house you will need a fixed Internet IP Address from your ISP.

You are probably using a 192.168.xxx.xxx address range within your local network and cannot be accessed from external sources (at least not without using some complicated Network Address Translation :shock: )

[Buster]

I think I understand that dons. So how do I go about doing so. Do I need to register with something along these lines. http://www.changeip.com/?source=linksys

if so hows it work? :oops:

[Electric Monk]

Depending on how far you have got you may have already done some of this:

assign a Local IP Address to your camera, Run the install wizard program from the CD that came with the camera, the camera will be assigned a local IP Address so it is recognised by your router

Check you can view the picture from within your wireless network, Type the local IP address from above into your browser to bring up the Cameras homepage. click on "config/network/advanced" to bring up the HTTP and RTSP port numbers and write them down.

Now you need to access your routers status/setup page (check your routers manual)

Your setup page should show a WAN ip address, this is the address you will need to access the camera from outside the network.

You now need to open some virtual server ports (again, different ways of doing it on various makes of router but the idea is the same, your router manual should help you through this)

Find the virtual server button/option on your routers status page.

Enter the cameras local ip address from step 1 above into the Private/internal IP field

select TCP for the "HTTP" port and enter 80 into the port number field
select TCP&UDP for the "RTSP" port and enter 554 into the port number field

Apply your changes.

Type the WAN ip address from above into your browser.

No Idea if the above will work straight off (or at all :( ), you may need to fiddle with some camera settings as well

What model router do you have?

[Buster]

the model of my router is this one. http://www.edimax.co.uk/ model AR-7024Wg


thanks for the above post very informative. :? now time to give it a go.

[Electric Monk]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/terry.knipe/RouterScreenDumps15.jpg

Ext port..........Private port..........port type..........Host IP Address
80-80.................80.....................TCP..... ...........(cameras ip)
554-554.............554....................TCP........ .........(cameras ip)
554-554.............554....................UDP........ .........(camerasip)


I think these are the settings you need, anybody else got any ideas? (we need a network engineer in here :roll: )

[Buster]

thanks electic I have set those port into the router and rebooted. now when I input the ip address into my browser plus :80 all I get is my routers configure page with the input user name and password. :?

head and wall spring to mind. :whistling:

I have even set up my spare d-link modem/router but still have the same problem. :?

what am i doing wrong?

oh and I have registered with a no i.p. dsn site and after setting up with them when i put the web address that i have selected into my browser i still get the same thing (router config page) :?

any ideas?

[Electric Monk]

Ian,

e-mail me your WAN ip address so I can play with the problem.

terry.knipe@ntlworld.com

[Buster]

all up and running now. my little reef is available for veiwing all over the web. Broadband 2meg needed for best results.:) :D :)

if anyone wants the web address please p.m. me.:)

[Electric Monk]

How did you fix it in the end Ian? (I'm giving serious thought to getting one now you have yours working so I can view mine while on holiday) 'cos i'll only stress wondering if everythings ok while i'm away.

[Buster]

:)
How did you fix it in the end Ian? (I'm giving serious thought to getting one now you have yours working so I can view mine while on holiday) 'cos i'll only stress wondering if everythings ok while i'm away.

Thats the reason why I have got one. I do have someone comming in to see to my tanks but it's just for my peice of mind. I wont lie and say it was a peice of cake. I had very little hair to start with I have even less now.;) I will say it is more difficult if your i.s.p do not run static i.p's. if they do then your lucky as all you need is your static i.p address plus the port number of the camera i.e 83.135.100.2:80 or if you have a dynamic i.p address you will have to register with something like NO.i.p.com and then they give you a web address i.e iansreef.zapto.org and that will update with your dynamic i.p address if you see what I mean:D .

if you need info pm me.

regards Ian