Tag Archives: Camera

Axis 2100 Network Camera Repair

Posted by dave on April 18, 2012 2 comments

I bought an Axis 2100 camera off the bay the other day, it didn’t have a power supply but was very cheap so I took a gamble with it. I bought an AD-121AD generic power adaptor from the bay too, …

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A Hodeghog and a Field Mouse (in the house)

Posted by dave on August 23, 2010 No comments

Another video from my custom built hedgehog house (using ZoneMinder and an IP Camera) The field mouse is already in there when the hedgehog turns up, he’s not worried but I think the little mouse is!

Our first hedgehog!

Posted by dave on May 29, 2010 2 comments

We had a vistor last night, a rather large and quite hungry hedgehog. He/She first appeared at 23:11 and then came back again at 03:14. It seemed to really like all the food, the spikes dried hedgehog food and the …

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Downloading Unsigned ActiveX Controls in IE8

Posted by dave on May 25, 2010 4 comments

I normally use FireFox or Chrome for most of my webby stuff, but occasionally I have to revert back to IE for certain ActiveX stuff to work. More specifically, to get the audio feed from my Foscam IP cameras. You …

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Setting the Harmony CCTV IP Address on a Linksys DMA2100

Posted by dave on May 25, 2010 No comments

If you are running Harmony 2007 Automation Server from a DMA2100 Media Centre Extender then you will be aware that you can’t set the IP address and port for the CCTV server (if you have it installed) from the on …

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Hedgehog House with IP Camera, the build…

Posted by dave on May 17, 2010 2 comments

At my last house we had a hedgehog that would come into the garden every evening. I first discovered him when he scared the crap out of me when I came out of the garage one night, having just finished …

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Foscam FI8908W IP Camera with PT (no Z) Working in ZoneMinder

Posted by dave on March 19, 2010 55 comments

Within Zoneminder you can add various cameras, usb cams, network cams etc. If you are using a network camera, you need to write custom code in Perl to be able to control the Pan, Tilt and Zoom (PTZ) from within …

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Viewing ZoneMinder CCTV within Windows Media Center

Posted by dave on March 16, 2010 8 comments

I run ZoneMinder as my CCTV server, which works really well. It sits on a Ubuntu PC and quite happily monitors everything that’s going on, I’ll do a full write up on ZoneMinder some othertime. I can connect into the …

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