Gentlemen, it’s working again. The issue is that I was entering a port number in the webcamcapture app, when it didn’t really need it. I found this out quite by accident by trying different connection URLs as shown on the Amcrest website and when I entered one but didn’t put the port number in, the image showed up! This is quite perplexing because I always had the port number in there before. But, if it works like this, then I’m going to leave the port number out of the URL. I’ve been watching the page now for about 5-6 minutes, and so far it hasn’t timed-out and is keeping pretty good time.
lgRich, I took your advice and tried to set my cam settings to the ones you suggested and after I click the “Save” button to save the changes, it changes back to MJPG, 720P, 10 FPS all by itself and I’m not sure why, but like I said, if it works with these settings then I’m going to leave it alone for awhile to see what it does.
Thanks to everyone who helped me with my settings and helping me to get this back up and running. It’s been an experience, I can tell you! Now I can go to bed happy.
Hmm. Works internally but not externally. I tried my IP address, my domain name, and the DNS entry I created yesterday for my webcam and it still won’t show.
Gents, I’ve given up on this for now. It’s too frustrating to try to get a live image going again. Works locally but not externally. I’m on vacation next week so may spend more time with it then. In the interim, I’ve gone back to 1 image and the daily video.
Hi Dan… when I put an external IP address there, the page never loads. I’ve opened the port on the firewall, but still I get nothing. Any ideas on how to fix that?
In your browser, for the URL enter “whatsmyip” and you should see your actual IP. That IP along with the actual port number should be part of the URL you would use for access. It should look similar to:
add: Forgot one thing…You need to port forward. In your router, port forward the port you select to the IP address of your webcam. The IP should match up with your internal net address’s…if you internal address’s are 192.168.1.1xx the on the router, set it to port forward requests from the external IP:Port to the IP of your webcam and include the port #.
Keep in mind that the directions I’ve given you are to allow people to connect directly to your webcam. AFAIK all the Amcrest cams run an internal webserver. If your using WD to serve the live feed then the setup would be different. Instead of pointing the router requests to your webcam you would instead point them to your WD computer. I am not familiar with using this method to serve up live video.