Comments on: Problems with Siemens Gigaset WLAN camera

By: John

John — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:42:40 +0000

@Philippe – Siemens only support the Windows Media Player format, which means you need a player for the Mac which will play that format. I haven’t found a player which works really well with the files from the camera, but I am using MPlayer OS X at the moment. If you find a better player, I’d be interested to hear from you.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:32:07 +0000

Question on Mac OS X Tiger and the Ggaset WLAN CAM. Set it up via my PC, and it works, now want to view images on my bedside Powerbook and get this funny icon with a LEgo like little icon with questionmarks on it. How can I view on my Mac? Thanks for any help

By: John

John — Fri, 27 May 2005 08:19:31 +0000

Well, this is what started me thinking about setting up a webcam originally. Although we live in the country, there has been a series of break-ins over the last few weeks, so I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone – get me a new toy, that might also be useful! If the only thing it films is wilting plants, I’ll be quite happy, and if the the worst happens, we might have a souvenier to help track down the bad guys.

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 27 May 2005 07:16:37 +0000

So you plan to leave the WLAN camera running at home whilst you are away…
So what do you do when you look at the camera from holiday location and see that the plants are drooping for lack of water or worse the local Penner are squatting in your living room?

By: John

John — Fri, 27 May 2005 05:25:49 +0000

The account I’m using is one that I never used up until now anyway!

By: vowe

vowe — Thu, 26 May 2005 20:38:25 +0000

i’d suggest you send the photos to a gmail account. if the camera goes berserk, you are not trashing your real mail account.

By: John

John — Thu, 26 May 2005 19:20:15 +0000

OK - that was the problem for the NTP server. Thanks VERY much! I found one at 195.13.1.153 and it updated fine. Also for the smtp server. Super! Now all I need to do, is decide where to finally mount the camera while we are on holiday… It has the big advantage that you don’t need to leave a PC running the whole time, as it talks directly with the WLAN router.

By: John

John — Thu, 26 May 2005 19:10:07 +0000

Thanks, vowe, I’ll try that later and report back on whether it helps!
And sorry, I haven’t found a fix to the not preserving the comment info

By: Volker Weber

Volker Weber — Thu, 26 May 2005 18:33:23 +0000

It may have a problem resolving names via DNS, because it says that the NTP server is unknown. I suggest you set the parameters to IP addesses instead of FQHNs.