Meeting Links
This page offers quick links to websites mentioned in MacInSteins monthly meetings.
URLs
CHANGE, though, so you’ll probably hit some expired ones for
older meeting dates.
From the August 21st meeting's presentation on: "Lion"
• Ars Technica article on Lion
From the May 15th meeting's Q&A period:
• Removing the Safari "Community Toolbar" incompatibility problem
From the April 17th meeting's presentation on: “Home WebCams”
- Amazon
- Foscam outdoor webcam (wide-angle)
Note that there are several versions of the camera - this link is to the wide-angle-view one, but you can find the "distant" and "medium" field-of-view versions of it by just searching for "foscam outdoor" on Amazon. When you get it and start setting it up remember that it takes the camera about 30 seconds to reboot after some changes, so be patient.
- Foscam IP
Camera Tool for OS X (Finally!)
If you have the camera plugged in to your AirPort (or hub or switch) on your home network, the camera will find a DHCP address automatically after about a minute. It MUST be wired for initial setup - after which you can make it wireless. The camera will show up in the IP Camera Tool window as "anonymous" with its current IP address shown in IP Tool's window. Double-click its name and it'll open a browser window with a login screen. Use the default "Admin" user and no password to login to it initially (click the bottom of the two "Login" buttons to login from a Mac - since the top buton uses ActiveX - which we don't have in OS X). Explore the choices in the "Management" button's list to find where you can setup the camera's network configuration to give it a static IP address on your home network (and change the Admin password!). The simplest thing to do is to use the IP address that DHCP assigned it - or pick a big number (above 150 and below 250 will be safe) for the last segment of the IP address field.
- EvoCam server
software
To take advantage of EvoCam's functions, you need to have it hosted on a computer at home that stays on 24/7 - so it'll be there when you need to look at it (or to be recording when something happens). You CAN set up the camera using its built-in web server and port-forward to it - so you can see it from the outside world - but you'll not get all those cool features that having a server with EvoCam provides. Follow EvoCam's good instructions for setting it up.
- Setting up your AirPort router to forward to EvoCam (one of several YouTube tutorials on the process. You'll need to note that you're forwarding from TCP port 8080 (external) to TCP port 8080 (at the static IP address for your home server).
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