24 hour feed?

[Reggae Fish]

Does anyone use a wireless web cam to watch their tanks while they are gone. I go out of town in the summer a lot but just for the weekend so I won't be having someone keep an eye on my tank but I hate not knowing what's going on. I'd hate for a circuit to break and have my tank not get any oxygen for 2 days. I'm looking at the wireless linksys camera since I can just plug directly in to my router and check the live feed a few times a day while I'm out of town. That way if there is any problems, I can just call someone. Does anyone else do this? By any chance does anyone have this specific model? I've been using my B series router with barely any problems but every once in a while, it will drop the connection and I have to power cycle it. Not too often does it happen but with the camera, it says you type in the IP address. My question is if it would lose power or something would happen, would it automatically renew the IP or would it go back to the set IP that you typed in? Since there is no PC attached, I couldn't even go in with remote assistance or anything I would imagine. Anyways, I'm rambling now. Just curious if anyone else does this and their experiences.

Also, should I set up an automatic feeder for being gone 2 days? If so, I would just put enough for that time in case it goes haywire and wants to keep feeding, it would run out

Thanks,
Justin

 

[JxMetal]

I often don't feed my fish for a couple days, due to the fact that I'm not home while the lights are on. Usually Mondays and Tuesdays. They're still doing fine, being all fat and stuff. I do put a piece of nori on the glass Sunday nights. So that helps a little bit I think.

 

[ol'saltybastage]

most linksys routers are DDNS enabled. meaning.. you can go to a site like dyndns.org and setup a hostname say... fishcam.homeip.net and you'll just put that in your browser to get to your camera. in your router you'll enter your dyndns.org username/password and hostname and it will keep the fishcam.homeip.net pointing to the right ip by updating the dynamic dns everytime your ip changes.. best of all .. its free

 

[Reggae Fish]

Thanks. Yeah, it hard to beat about $50 (for the camera) for piece of mind

 

[geppert]

Battery backup would also do the trick.

 

[ol'saltybastage]

only until the DHCP lease time expired and your router requested a new ip.. < assuming they don't use a graduated lease time.

 

[Reggae Fish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7197602#post7197602 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ol'saltybastage
only until the DHCP lease time expired and your router requested a new ip.. < assuming they don't use a graduated lease time.

Sorry, you wrote that in a foreign lang.

PS. Did you get my PM with my info you asked for. I've been having problems with my PM Box

 

[ol'saltybastage]

oh, i was commenting about the battery backup idea. lol.