Here is a challenge !
Shame 
Quote I'll find out what make/model my colleague has when I get into the office tomorrow.
He has a Panasonic one, bit more expensive than the one you are looking at , something like £200
Quote Wenn es das neueste Technologie ist, wieso gibt’s ein “Alt“ Taste?
Because the old is usually more reliable than the new !
Anyway...... That's an interesting possibility. The problem is that my router is a Tiscali "Alice Box" which I bought on e-Bay in France second hand, thinking it was an "Orange Live Box". Why do they insist on having similar names ? As my ISP is the disastrous Orange, I have no Orange instructions for it, and I had to "knife and fork" it to get it to work, which I did successfuly three years ago as the result of kind help from this very forum ! I have got some instructions in French for it off the web - it is actually an Hitach AH4021 - which I have read through, but there does not appear to be an email facility of the nature which you describe. The difficulty is that it is written half in French and half in English !
The new IP webcam, however, evidently does have an email facility, but I will not know how it works until I receive it.
In the meantime, I am trying to prepare for it. But I must admit to having difficulty trying to understand concepts. Even if I know the IP address of the wifi modem, how do I access the IP webcam's address ? If I enter the IP address of the wifi modem, I only reach the wifi modem itself, not the webcam. How do I tell it to forward me to the IP address of the webcam ? That is what is puzzling me.
I have provisionally subscribed to dyndsn.com as an experiment, and fed their service with my IP address obtained from "What is my IP?" But that of course is again only the IP address of the wifi modem, not of the computer which I am using. So I only reach the wifi modem. Presumably, I have some sort of sub IP address like 192.162.1.35, but how do I tell dyndsn.com that I want to access 192.168.1.35 and to forward my commands to 192.168.1.35 ? I am very confused but I imagine that I have to put some settings into my "Alice Box", and also make sure that the webcam address is static.
Altenatively, having reached the router, is there a way that I can then enter a command which allows me to access the LAN ?
I am a slow learner, but when I understand, it usually sticks.
Great. Once again, many thanks for the clarification. The link for port forwarding is exactly what I needed. Now things are much clearer.
Again, many thanks.
Again, many thanks.
I said that I would update you on how I got on with the IP camera.
Well, the first one (unbadged) arrived from China in less than a week. But it was troublesome from Day 1 ! It had a USA power supply with a UK adapter that did not work - they acknowledged they had had problems with them ! I managed to find an old power lead which fitted US plugs. The instructions were appalling - chinese English, all on CD but without any indication as to which set of instructions referred to the model camera which I had. I eventually got it working on ethernet, but the WiFi never worked satisfactorilly - despite the quality seals, the antenna socket was very loose. Then the remote tilt motor stopped working. By this time, I had had enough and asked for a refund. The Chinese agreed and when asked, also agreed to pay the return postage. So really I cannot grumble too much.
Foolishly, I decided to try again, but this time from a Hong Kong supplier. It arrived within three days ! Same camera evidently, but in a different box. It looked identical but a different finish. This time there was a separate instruction leaflet and it had a proper UK plug on the power supply. They also supplied a network cable with it, unlike the last one. And it became clear from the instructions that, though unbadged, this is the same camera as usually carries the "FOSCAM" name - quite a well known brand.
So I set it up, and bingo!, everything works as it is supposed to do. The WiFi has a limited range but that could be due to my old Linksys router - I get limited range with my laptop, even though I have fitted an extra antenna. But it does everything I could have asked for, including IP forwarding (to dyndsn.org), sending a warning email or uploading an image using FTP if it is being used as a movement detector, and enabling two-way communication - the microphone is o.k. but the internal speaker is inaudible, although there is an external socket to connect headphones / external speaker.
So for £50, I have no complaints and it solves the problem for me - I also bought, for £3.50, a dual-sensor thermometer which I will keep by the side of the boiler. It displays the internal temperature and has a sensor on a wire which runs outside to record the external temperature. The camera resolution is easily good enough to see the readings. The camera has IR lights and the image is surprisingly good, but not good enough to read the thermometer display, so light will be needed for that.
I am intrigued. Many thanks to all who proferred advice.
Well, the first one (unbadged) arrived from China in less than a week. But it was troublesome from Day 1 ! It had a USA power supply with a UK adapter that did not work - they acknowledged they had had problems with them ! I managed to find an old power lead which fitted US plugs. The instructions were appalling - chinese English, all on CD but without any indication as to which set of instructions referred to the model camera which I had. I eventually got it working on ethernet, but the WiFi never worked satisfactorilly - despite the quality seals, the antenna socket was very loose. Then the remote tilt motor stopped working. By this time, I had had enough and asked for a refund. The Chinese agreed and when asked, also agreed to pay the return postage. So really I cannot grumble too much.
Foolishly, I decided to try again, but this time from a Hong Kong supplier. It arrived within three days ! Same camera evidently, but in a different box. It looked identical but a different finish. This time there was a separate instruction leaflet and it had a proper UK plug on the power supply. They also supplied a network cable with it, unlike the last one. And it became clear from the instructions that, though unbadged, this is the same camera as usually carries the "FOSCAM" name - quite a well known brand.
So I set it up, and bingo!, everything works as it is supposed to do. The WiFi has a limited range but that could be due to my old Linksys router - I get limited range with my laptop, even though I have fitted an extra antenna. But it does everything I could have asked for, including IP forwarding (to dyndsn.org), sending a warning email or uploading an image using FTP if it is being used as a movement detector, and enabling two-way communication - the microphone is o.k. but the internal speaker is inaudible, although there is an external socket to connect headphones / external speaker.
So for £50, I have no complaints and it solves the problem for me - I also bought, for £3.50, a dual-sensor thermometer which I will keep by the side of the boiler. It displays the internal temperature and has a sensor on a wire which runs outside to record the external temperature. The camera resolution is easily good enough to see the readings. The camera has IR lights and the image is surprisingly good, but not good enough to read the thermometer display, so light will be needed for that.
I am intrigued. Many thanks to all who proferred advice.