A friend asked me about my my webcam and what I was using and how I got it onto the website. I bought a NCS-330W SOHO 802.11g Wireless Network Camera complete with external enclosure from Network-Camera.co.uk.

The camera is situated underneath the jetty by the lake outside of my house. Being wireless all I had to worry about was getting power to it which wasn’t a problem as I had some lights nearby where I could pick up a feed from.

Then all I had to do was turn it on, get a connection to the wireless router in the house and then make some configuration changes to the router to allow port forwarding to the camera and I was set. This was a pretty simple exercise and took about 10 minutes to complete following the instructions supplied with the camera.

The only other thing I had to do was to setup an account at DynDns which was free so that when my broadband provider changed my ip address the camera could still be found automatically.

The camera has a built in webserver which means I don’t need to have a pc on for it to work and it serves the video itself. Putting it on the website was simply a matter of adding a small piece of JavaScript code to the page and the camera took care of the rest.

There are a lot of other nifty things you can do with this camera and I’m using it in its most basic form but if you are interested in seeing what you can do then visit Network-Camera.co.uk and take a look.

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