can camera still record if wifi signal is lost
1089988
The camera will record continuously without wifi or network if you pre-install a Micro SD card into it.
1089989
If you have a memory chip in the camera, you can set it to record. Then you can review the captured video on the card.
1054936
YES. If you insert a 32 GB SD card the camera records continuously and overwrites the old files. These files are easily examined to see if the camera is recording even when the router or the PC are down. I do not know of any other IP cam in this price range that is capable of doing this.
1893678
I have these cameras located around my facility... they are very sensitive to interference from other wifi signals and would drop out and reconnect frequently... I wound up replacing the antennas with directional panel antennas pointed at the wifi access point locations and they now work great...
1639093
You need to make an Ethernet coonection to marry the camera to the wifi system. After they connect, you can disconnect. Some of the newest cameras from this line can power from the Ethernet connection.
1905296
I wouldn't for WiFI. I was suspect as to whether or not one would actually work. With a wired connection I might give it a shot. I would worry that you might get too much voltage drop and the camera might crash or you might have WiFi signal issues.
650599
The camera connects to the via it's own WiFi signal. So the phone/camera communicate independently of other wifi signals.
2083212
No. The camera is not capable of wifi. And you can't call the camera to receive your pictures. The camera basically works like a pre paid cell phone. Is sends you text or email of all your photos or videos real time or you can set it to send them at a set time. You just have to buy a pre paid phone card or add it to your phone plan if you have a phone plan that's compatible.
1175861
The camera just gives a feed to the device you connect too. That device can just output a video signal or record if it has that function. But that is independent of this camera.
817305
No, But I would find a different camera system if it is any where near wi-fi or it will step on it and mess wifi up.
1108723
Yes. If the wireless is setup, then you can unplug the camera and it will reconnect when you plug it in again.
460352
I wouldn't consider it easy. If there are any known vulnerabilities there will be a firmware upgrade available on the foscam site. I would be more worried about your wireless router vulnerabilities than the camera itself. In either case make sure you use wpa2 encryption and set a good user/password and check for firmware updates every month and this will nearly eliminate the possibilities of getting compromised. To note there are logs on the camera on who access it and from what ip. I hope this helps.
1317531
To the best of my knowledge it may record and alert but cannot transmit if your wifi is down or you can't get a 3G connection
941058
Yes you can have the camera record to the SD card and it should not care if it is on the network or not. You can remove the SD card and view the recordings on your pc. There is not a requirement to have it connected to the network for the camera to function.
2021450
Sorry I don't know the answer to that question, I thought about going wifi, did a little research I found out that the security system would hog up all my wifi power and that computers would lag possibility of camera lag along with other devices, so I hard wired everything all cameras which is time consuming but reliable and now I don't have to worry about all my other devices.
1250425
There is software you can install on your PC that can monitor the video stream the camera sends out over wifi and if the software detects motion, it can start recording the video stream to your PC. Foscam provided a software CD with the camera but I never installed it so I don't know if the software Foscam provided had motion detection abilities.
1020701
Did you try powering it off and back on? If your capturing high res video with sound then you may need a stronger wifi signal.
1239802
There is a seperate app for that, but I returned it prior to testing that functionality. I couldn't live with the frequent wifi disconnects and the video delay.