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Trying to connect security cameras to my home
Trying to connect surveillance cameras to my home. When I click on the CM network of the cameras it says internet not available. Could this be happening because of my router? It seems that every time ...
- Thank you so much. I truly appreciate your response. I'll try your suggestions.
Smiles, Pamela
> Trying to connect surveillance cameras to my home.
Ok. Which camera make and model? Connect how? Wireless?
> When I click on the CM network of the cameras it says internet not
> available.
I don't know what that means. Are you using a Web browser on a
computer, or some app on a phone, or what? What's "the CM network of
the cameras"?
> It seems that every time I try to connect any type of camera or
> something to my internet where I have to go to the item CM number it
> always says there is no internet connection.
It's not "my internet", it's your local-area network (LAN). The
Internet is a collection of many interconnected smaller networks (like
yours). Hence the name. But I digress. What does "the item CM number"
mean?
At least one of us is confused, and only one of us knows which book
the other should be reading. And I'm not the one with that info.
Sorry.. Trying to connect an Eyeclub wifi smart socket camera i got from Amazon. I first go to my 2.4G home wifi connection on my android phone. Now open the Eyeclubs app on my phone... Then turn on the camera. Now i choose smart socket on the app... Then I go to my phone's wifi selection list and see the camera's network name.. it starts with CM.. then i choose it. My phone connects to it, but says under the network name... "no internet connection" or "no internet available". If i go ahead and continue with the setup it always says failed.
- I know I don't understand the correct terminology.. so sorry, I'm trying.
- Need to be able to view the footage from the camera remotely on my phone from anywhere.
> Trying to connect an Eyeclub wifi smart socket camera i got from
> Amazon.
Not a very detailed description of anything. Model number?
> My phone connects to it, but says under the network name... "no
> internet connection" or "no internet available".
I'm not an Android user, and I've never touched an Eyeclub product,
so I know nothing, but if your gizmo is anything like an Orvibo S20
"smart socket", then the no-Internet complaint may be normal.
The idea (with the Orvibo gizmo, at least) is that you temporarily
put the gizmo into a special mode where the gizmo itself becomes a
wireless router, and you connect your phone to it, instead of to your
normal wireless router. In this situation, there is no Internet
connection, because you're connected to the gizmo instead of to your
normal wireless router (and the gizmo's not connected to anything except
your phone). So, nothing to worry about.Then, in the app, you provide the credentials (SSID, passphrase) for
your normal wireless router, and the app sends these data to the gizmo.
Then the gizmo goes back to its normal mode, and connects to your normal
wireless router (using the credentials which you supplied in the app).
At that point, the gizmo should appear in the "Attached Devices" list
on your normal wireless router's Web page. And the app should also be
able to communicate with the gizmo (through your normal wireless
router), and make the gizmo do whatever the gizmo does.
There are many things which can go wrong with this kind of procedure,
but very few of them have anything to do with your normal wireless
router. More likely, you're not providing the right credentials, or the
app is buggy, or the gizmo is buggy. My guess is that you'll get more
help in some Eyeclub-related forum than you will here.
> Need to be able to view the footage from the camera remotely on my phone
> from anywhere.
If you can get the gizmo to connect to your normal wireless router,
then that should become possible.- Thank you so much. I truly appreciate your response. I'll try your suggestions.
Smiles, Pamela