Live Camera 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

 

[chadfarmer]

02manyfish has one setup on his site so you can look at his tank last time i was there

cant remember the site

 

[chadfarmer]

http://www.o2manyfish.com/camera.htm

 

[Im Lon 2]

That's really cool. I like, that I can control it and zoom in on things