{"id":812,"date":"2019-02-01T06:05:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T06:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buklijas.info\/blog\/?p=812"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T12:18:08","slug":"foscam-fi8908w-network-ip-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buklijas.info\/blog\/2019\/02\/01\/foscam-fi8908w-network-ip-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"FOSCAM FI8908W network IP camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published on:<\/strong> 01.02.2019<\/p>\n

I bought this camera from Deal Extreme<\/a>, almost a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if plan to use this camera first step is to upgrade to the newest firmware<\/b>, on official website<\/a> I found nothing, but they do have some software tools<\/a>, luckily there are instructions on Deal Extreme Forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I did my firmware upgrade step by step<\/strong>, from a version on my camera to the next firmware version.<\/p>\n

Maybe upgrade to last would firmware work also, but I did not want to take unnecessary risk and brick my device.<\/p>\n

There is an upgrade for System firmware and Embedded Web UI first upgrade System firmware and then Embedded Web UI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Also, there is similar model fi8918w<\/a>, AFAIK last firmware version should not be upgraded to this model.<\/p>\n

Be sure to understand procedure from Deal Extreme Forums<\/a> before starting the firmware upgrade process.<\/p>\n

My experience with a version with last firmware<\/h3>\n

The camera is giving 640×480 image, during the daylight it is acceptable<\/strong>, during the night you can see that somebody is there but not who, so it is not useful in a night mode.<\/p>\n

Movement of a camera is possible<\/strong>, it is working fine but web UI for control is not working on IPad only regular PC browsers.<\/p>\n

The device should offer an audio connection, but I have not used it<\/p>\n

WiFi connection I have used, I just trust the cable more :-).<\/p>\n

The camera also has an IO port for motion detection and trigger, but I have not used it.<\/p>\n

There is also a possibility of motion detection, recording of video\/pictures and sending to email and FTP upload<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I have not tested this feature because it is only working on Microsoft Internet Explorer<\/strong> so to use it you have to have one PC with it always running<\/p>\n

Electricity consumption is about 3.5 till 4 watts\/hour on 230 voltage.<\/p>\n

I did notice that it need to be restarted once per week, otherwise, it will just get stuck.<\/p>\n

Should you use this camera<\/h3>\n

It depends on what purpose you want to use it.<\/p>\n

If you want to have a daylight live stream without recording and alarms and it is OK for you to restart it every week that it is fine.<\/p>\n

Also one decade ago this was a great device for its price, today it is better to get a camera on Raspberry Ri with motionEye<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you plan to use this camera with motionEye<\/a> add it as Network Camera.<\/p>\n

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