Yeah, I saw that too. I ended up going to Best Buy today to get one. They are on sale for $50 off this week.I bought one from amazon.com yesterday and it said there's a 1-2 month shipping time.
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While this looks very nice I couldn't justify getting the cam unless their is an app released for the iphone.
Just wondering for those that have tried the QIk.com on a jailbroken phone - whats the fps roughly?
I'm so tempted to jailbreak just for qik right now, as Apple have been doing a wait till it's ready on us. The phone is capable of it, and there are apps out there for those jailbroken, just not official yet (and qik is apparently in the process of applying to the App Store currently afaik, but Apple might slow them down until the video side is fixed).
I'm so tempted to jailbreak just for qik right now, as Apple have been doing a wait till it's ready on us. The phone is capable of it, and there are apps out there for those jailbroken, just not official yet (and qik is apparently in the process of applying to the App Store currently afaik, but Apple might slow them down until the video side is fixed).
Ya, using the website provided by the camera works great for seeing the picture. Actually surprisingly well over the 3G network. I was impressed. However, using the buttons to move the camera around could definitely use improvement. If someone built an app for this I would be pretty freaking excited. (hint hint)
Surprised nobody said this yet.... the Air Cam app. its 7.99 and allows you to view a webcam over your iphone. I paired it with the iSight camera that comes on the Macbook Pro. I use it to spy on my dog while i'm at work. link and screenshot below (you can see my dog on the right on the couch -- which he's not supposed to be on!!):
itunes link to Air Cam
itunes link to Air Cam
Wow, thanks for all the info! These look awesome!
I am now forced to go out and spend $275 so that I can watch my dog sleep while I'm at work. On the plus side though, yelling at him over the answering machine for getting into the trash will never be more fun.
ROFL!
That would truly be great!
I'm so anxious to see a REAL demo of one of these in action on the iphone, anyone care to or have any recorded video to show us?
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This is Mac only?
Can you view WMV streams like
http://mschnlnine.wmod.llnwd.net/a1809/d1/ch9/9/1/1/5/3/4/RussinovichInsideWindows7_s_ch9.wmv
Can you view WMV streams like
http://mschnlnine.wmod.llnwd.net/a1809/d1/ch9/9/1/1/5/3/4/RussinovichInsideWindows7_s_ch9.wmv
Surprised nobody said this yet.... the Air Cam app. its 7.99 and allows you to view a webcam over your iphone. I paired it with the iSight camera that comes on the Macbook Pro. I use it to spy on my dog while i'm at work. link and screenshot below (you can see my dog on the right on the couch -- which he's not supposed to be on!!):
itunes link to Air Cam
you guys like to make things difficult. The Iphone supports MJPEG (motion jpeg) cameras and regular webcams. To do the regular webcam thing, download a program called "Yawcam" and get it setup. Great program and its all free and you can watch streaming video on your iphone. You can also use multiple webcams hooked up to your computer at the same time with this program and your iphone. Im using 2 right now and you just switch back and forth. Just use safari and log onto http://youripaddress:8081 . you can setup a name and pw too if you like.
. On the plus side though, yelling at him over the answering machine for getting into the trash will never be more fun.
im not lying, i just peed my pants laughing at this. i imagined my dogs getting into the trash and then doing that too them. they would cower away and hide underneath the barstools hahaha. im gonna have to try doing that sometime. definetly worth 275, as long as i can record it and send it in to AFV
I'm interested in getting a couple of Panasonic cameras for security at the front and rear of my residence and am wondering if they are still working well with the native Safari browser in iPhone 3G(s)?
Ideally it would be responsive enough that if my wife were home alone and the doorbell rang she could pull the front door camera up in a reasonable amount of time and see who was there before answering.
It would seem as though a dedicated application for controlling these cameras and being able to save snapshots to the camera roll would be ideal.
The commercial panasonic cameras that provide the same IP webserver capabilities but also record to SD card cost $450 and up. Ouch.
Last question, does anyone with the Panasonic cameras know if there is an application that you can run on a Windows box to record the camera feeds 24/7 on a loop? I use a mediasmart for file sharing and would love to be able to use it to record on a 24 hour loop from a couple of these cameras.
Ideally it would be responsive enough that if my wife were home alone and the doorbell rang she could pull the front door camera up in a reasonable amount of time and see who was there before answering.
It would seem as though a dedicated application for controlling these cameras and being able to save snapshots to the camera roll would be ideal.
The commercial panasonic cameras that provide the same IP webserver capabilities but also record to SD card cost $450 and up. Ouch.
Last question, does anyone with the Panasonic cameras know if there is an application that you can run on a Windows box to record the camera feeds 24/7 on a loop? I use a mediasmart for file sharing and would love to be able to use it to record on a 24 hour loop from a couple of these cameras.