I wonder about that. We’re starting to get more residential takers on leasing a Mikrotik. We ship them with UPNP disabled and since they are remotely managed can easily enable it upon request. Have not had to turn a single one on yet. Maybe the intersection of people with Xboxes and people who lease routers is the null set? Hard to believe.
From: Mathew Howard Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 5:00 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Grandstream Cameras but... anything that makes me not have to deal with people whining about their xbox NAT issues can't be all bad. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: UPNP = evil Here, cheap piece of crap from China, do whatever you want with my firewall, and no need to tell me. From: mailto:[email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 11:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Grandstream Cameras It's definitely a NAT issue. Does your router support UPNP? Did you enable it in Settings->Network Settings->Advanced Settings? On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: I could post a pic if I could get into the system. (Not on site most of the time). From: mailto:[email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 9:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Grandstream Cameras Can you post a pic of the camera during the day and of it washed out at night? We've had to tweek the video settings on some of the cameras. If you have an Android phone/tablet, you can download their free app to view your cameras remotely. We have Apple and use the IP Cam Viewer app which is nice. I'll look into the remote DVR issue for you. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: OK, bought a couple of the more expensive grandstream cameras and their DVR device. The cameras are really washed out by our security lights at night. I got the expensive night IR model hoping to capture traffic at night. But the ambient light is too much for the B&W IR mode and not enough for regular color daylight mode. The thing that really bugs me is our inability to see the video remotely. If on site it works OK but if I log into the DVR it allows access but the screen is just black. No camera video is visible. Grandstream has not been helpful. So, shall I try another brand of camera? Have not tried any of the UBNT stuff. I have a cheap system from Harbor Freight that while is extremely low res and has noise on some of the channels actually works well enough for many things. (If nothing more than scaring away bad guys by the presence of the cameras.)
