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Why, oh why, can the designers of these things drop a couple of solderable test points on the edge of the board in order to allow the reset switch to be broken out? The reset switch (a tiny little thing) is a pain to solder an extension onto so that the camera has an external reset switch. There is just one thing about these tiny boards, though. If I can solve the ethernet problem, then I'll probably use these in the garden eventually. The one that I have installed in our front room is good enough - it even talks to the router (needing an external antenna to do so), but is hardly stable and crashes regularly. I have really enjoyed tinkering with these but they don't want to serve images via Ethernet (I'm still working on that). This is a dinky little thing comprising a development board with on-board wi-fi and a VGA or better camera.

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Fine, I'm simlifying things here, but after 3 weeks of fiddling about with networks, software and a couple of IP cameras, I can safely say that they are more trouble than thye are worth (unless you have a bottomless wallet with an endless budget).Д®SP-32-CAM.

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Of course, you can, in theory, access the wired (and want to be wireless) cameras - but there is no instruction on how to do this, what your username and password are or even where to look on the camera's server. The really old ones that are simply accessible from the network are horribly expensive. The older, wired ones, seem to also require the use of an app on your mobile phone. IP Cameras require a signal to the wireless router (we're back to those 2' thick walls). Recently, I have been investigating all manner of cameras. That is a problem because (a) we only use cheap, PAYG mobiles (dumb phones) and (b) for good engineering reasons, we have no mobile signal inside the house. Only one problem - they seem to all require the use of a current generation smart phone. Video Doorbells are wirelessly connected devices (powered from your old doorbell circuit) that allow opu to see and hear, and to speak to your visitors. That was fine, but it really wasn't what we wanted, so we looked at video doorbells. Version one was simply a 12 Volt automotive video camera and a matching 3.5 inch screen. For some time, we wanted to have a camera in the garage door (which is our main entrance) so that we could see when people arrived and, more to the point, who was arriving.

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