{"id":283,"date":"2009-11-02T17:55:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/?p=283"},"modified":"2009-11-02T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T17:43:30","slug":"cheap-ip-cameras-the-edimax-ic-3010wg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/2009\/11\/02\/cheap-ip-cameras-the-edimax-ic-3010wg\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap IP cameras: the Edimax IC-3010WG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Edi_3010wg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-284\" title=\"Edimax 3010wg\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Edi_3010wg-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Edimax 3010wg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/era-data\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Edi_3010wg-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/era-data\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Edi_3010wg.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>A much cheaper solution for IP video than the Axis Q7401, the <a title=\"Edimax product page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edimax.co.uk\/en\/produce_detail.php?pd_id=258&amp;pl1_id=8&amp;pl2_id=35\" target=\"_blank\">Edimax IC-3010WG<\/a> network camera is only \u00a380 from <a title=\"use-ip: edimax IC-3010wg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.use-ip.co.uk\/edimax-ic-3010wg-wireless-ip-camera.html\" target=\"_blank\">use-IP.co.uk<\/a>. For your money, you get a white plastic camera with a choice of wired or wifi network connections with a maximum resolution of 640&#215;480 at 30fps. Video streams are available in either M-JPEG or MPEG-4, with a built-in microphone and 3.5mm audio-output jack. The lens is fixed focal length and autofocus down to about 25-30cm, there is a <a title=\"Wikipedia - reverse SMA connector\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SMA_connector#Reverse_polarity_SMA\" target=\"_blank\">reverse-SMA<\/a> connector for the supplied wifi antenna on top of the unit and a <a title=\"camera tripod thread standards - wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tripod_(photography)#Screw_thread\" target=\"_blank\">1\/4&#8243;W<\/a> standard camera tripod thread unusually placed on the back. <!--more--><br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;ve found the camera on the network, the default username and password is <em>admin<\/em> and <em>1234<\/em>. The <a title=\"screenshot: camera video\/audio page\" href=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/edimax_video_webpage.png\" target=\"_blank\">web interface<\/a> is utilitarian, and seems to want ActiveX for a live-view. You can view a configured M-JPEG stream in VLC by selecting <em>media-&gt;open network<\/em> and adding<em> <a title=\"Edimax MJPEG video in VLC\" href=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/edimax_mjpeg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/192.168.1.125\/mjpg\/video.mjpg<\/a><\/em> (where 192.168.1.125 is the IP of the camera), you will be asked for the username and password before the stream opens. MPEG-4 can also be viewed in this way, using the path <em><a title=\"screenshot: Edimax MPEG-4 video in VLC\" href=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/edimax_mp4_vlc.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">rtsp:\/\/192.168.1.125:554\/ipcam.sdp<\/a><\/em> (again, fill in your own camera IP in place of 192.168.1.125), although I found that this didn&#8217;t work with the v.1.20 firmware the camera came with, and it wasn&#8217;t until I upgraded to <a title=\"Edimax firmware download page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edimax.co.uk\/en\/support_detail.php?pd_id=258&amp;pl1_id=8\" target=\"_blank\">v.1.25<\/a> that the MPEG-4 video streamed in VLC. The <a title=\"screenshot: camera WLAN page\" href=\"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/edimax_wlanpage.png\" target=\"_blank\">wifi function<\/a> of the Edimax scans for available networks, and offers to join one by selecting the ssid in the list and clicking <em>Apply<\/em>. The built-in mic on the camera bottom works with VLC, with audio and video delayed by between 1-2 seconds consistently in both M-JPEG and MPEG-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A much cheaper solution for IP video than the Axis Q7401, the Edimax IC-3010WG network camera is only \u00a380 from use-IP.co.uk. For your money, you get a white plastic camera with a choice of wired or wifi network connections with a maximum resolution of 640&#215;480 at 30fps. Video streams are available in either M-JPEG or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[26,3,24,12,54,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}