Sensr.net makes it easy to Watch Your Stuff with an Internet-enabled Wireless camera. The Trendnet TV-IP110W is one such camera that is often available on Amazon for a good price ($67 in January 2011). This article takes you through the steps to add a new camera to your Sensr account and program your Trendnet TV-IP110W to send its images there. Many other brands of Network Cameras (both wired and wireless) have FTP-upload capabilities too. If you have one of them, you may find this article helpful in setting it up.
Add a New Camera to your Sensr Account
Add a New Camera to your Sensr Account
Login to Sensr using your Facebook username and password. Select the “My Cameras” page. Here you will see thumbnails of the latest images from your cameras. To add a new camera to your account, click on the big green button labeled “Add New Camera.”
Select the “Add New Camera” button on the “My Cameras” Page
Tell Sensr About your Camera
On the “Camera Info” page you should fill in the fields marked with arrows. Give your camera a name that you like. Select an appropriate timezone. When you are done, click the “Add Camera” button at the bottom.
“Add New Camera” Setup Page
The “Add Camera” step allocates a new Camera Server on Sensr to watch your DCS-920. As part of creating a server, Sensr has created a new FTP account for your DCS-920 to upload its images to. The FTP credentials are displayed on the following page. The important bits of information are
- the FTP server,
- the FTP Username, and
- the FTP Password.
These three items of information need to be entered into the camera.
Tell your Camera about Sensr
Now we turn our attention to programming the TV-IP110W so that it sends its images to Sensr. You should have already gotten your camera added to your network. Now, navigate to your TV-IP110W Home Page, make sure you see a live image on the “Live View” page.
From the Home page, select the “Setup” tab.
And from the “Setup” Page, select the “Event Server” page. Click on the ‘FTP’ link in the sub-menu.
The FTP Setup Page is where you enter all of the detailed parameters – including the FTP Credentials created for you by Sensr.
- In the “Host Address” field, enter the “FTP Server” from Sensr. (In our example it is “f6.sensr.net”.)
- In the “User Name” field, enter the “Username” from Sensr. (In our example it is “cam205″.)
- In the “Password” field, enter the “Password” from Sensr. ( In our example it is “itbazlmx4t”.)
There are a few other parameters we want to set in the camera. We want to tell the TV-IP110W to upload a new image every second, for that, navigate to the “Event Config” tab, then select the “Schedule Trigger” link on the sub-menu.
Be sure to select the “Enable” in the “FTP schedule” frame. Also set the upload frequency to “One Frame Per Second.” using the “Interval” parameter.
Don’t forget to save the changes by clicking the “Apply” at the bottom of the page.
At this point, you are done! You can close the browser window programming your Camera and go back to Sensr. Click on the “Take Me To My Camera” button to see the Gallery view of images coming from your camera.
Now you can share your camera and its images with your friends on Facebook. Have fun!
I wonder if I should power off/on after this change as I'm only getting an image from the Test FTP. My live video is basically the Test FTP image.
Make sure you have the FTP Schedule enabled and set to 1 frame per second. If you don't, the camera won't send images on a continual basis.
thanks … I unplugged it and set it up somewhere else. I retested the FTP and the Live Feed is working. Maybe the wifi signal was too weak in the other location. I'll experiment some more.
Read an article about your new venture in Bloomberg(I think) and the timing was perfect. I had just purchased this camera since I have the IP Camera app on my Droid, but I could not get the port forwarding to work.
I think an app for mobile phones would be good to have, if not essential. I tried the sensr site with my Droid and things did not work as well as the full up site on my desktop. I'm probably like a lot of other people regarding mobile apps. I tend to use my Droid more than my desktop.
To brlarue: did you try the mobile version of the site on your Droid? Go to http://sensr.net/touch/webapp and give it a try if you haven't already.
brlarue, did you try the mobile version of our site? It should work on your Droid.
Here's the direct link:
http://sensr.net/touch/webapp
You can read the blog entry for more details:
http://blog.sensr.net/2011/02/sensr-on-your-touch-device-iphone-ipad.html
Click the "Feedback" button on http://sensr.net if you have suggestions on how to make it better. We would be happy to hear your ideas.
I have gone through 2 Panasonic BL-C121A's whose wireless modules fail within 4 weeks but have good pictures/video.
How reliable has the TV-IP110W been for you guys or would you recommend something else?
That's too bad about your Panasonic cameras. I have two BL-C140A cameras that have been running solid for over a year in the Tahoe weather. You can see one of them on the site here:
http://sensr.net/uview/88/dvr.html
The Trendnet seems to get wedged occasionally but we have seen no hardware failures.
The DCS-930L is a pretty cheap but solid choice. The image quality isn't great. The Panasonics are much better in that department.
My favorite camera right now is the Y-Cam Bullet. The images are clear and the night vision doesn't result in weird daytime colors. It's expensive though.
Checked-out your link on the BL-C140A; nice performance and nice video. I returned my first BL-C121A and running the second as "wired" since I like the images they produce and exhausted with the hassle of returning
On the Trendnet, when you say "wedged", can it be reset by unplugging?
I checked out it's video (Sunfire Office) and it seems to be pretty decent. BTW they are $49.99 at Amazon now and am tempted to get 2 or 3 if you give them approval
Is this Y-Cam Bullet the "Y-Cam Knight" you did a setup blog on last February or a different unit?
I will keep it in mind when I put a cam in my basement, hoping the price goes down (currently $279 at Amazon).
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