Visited Albuquerque during the DUKE CITY Ham Fest and saw a HSMM-MESH setup using the SWANN cameras. Purchased a pair of setup ver 1.0.0 routers

Now back in San Antonio.

I purchased the SWADS-450IPC models at Radio Shack on clearance sale.  To do setup requires a tablet (IPhone or Android) with a SWANN app over internal camera Wi-Fi for setup.

Since I would use Cat 5 cable to the Linksis router in normal application, is there a way to setup and use the camera without going through the tablet and Swann App?

Rick

Refer to manual "local configuration mode"

Please note, on quick view it looks like this camera is 100% dependent upon having internet access. Without access to the 3rd party swam website the camera does not look like it will function.  This means it will not work over the mesh if no internet is available and may not work over the mesh if it uses HTTPS (encryption). 

Hey OM Rick;

If you purchased the v1.0 units from the nm-mesh group in the vendor's room, that was from me !

Um, the cameras we were streaming were of two different types, neither of which was a "swann" (? - I am not sure just exactly what a swann camera is off-hand. Guess I should look that up !).

Anyways, for one of the two cameras we used a simple USB camera that was plugged into a throw-down router that was reprogrammed with openwrt to be a server. The application software used was mjpeg-streamer to stream to the ethernet port on the server/router.

The other camera was an IP camera from D-link that while originally meant to be used through d-link's internet web-site for hosting, was able to be configured to stream locally without an external app.

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Bob, w9ya