As IP Camera are cheaper than real alarm, I decided to buy a cheap IP Camera like ones you see for 50€ when typing “ip camera” on amazon :
(Re)brand : Wanscam
Model : FR4020A2
Original system firmware : 0.37.2.46
Original WEB UI : 0.9.4.16
It can detect movement, move horizontally and vertically by a web interface, send mail, send image on ftp, etc etc…
But the reference nearly doesn’t exist, and finding a newer firmware is nearly impossible. But this camera looks a lot like a lot of others, including Foscam. So I decided to find a newer firmware for similar webcams. I found that the firmware for mine was named lr_cmos_0_X_Y_Z.bin, and I searched for newer version. I finaly came acrosse this page : http://www.dericam.com/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=85 where a link to a firmware for the Dericam M801W is given containing a file named “lr_cmos_0_41_2_51.bin”, I decided to flash it and… It works ! It doesn’t seem that there exist any newer firmware…
About the web ui firmware, I searched for a firmware in the web coming with the system firmware around 41.2.51, and I came accross http://www.openipcam.com/forum/index.php/topic,128.0.html#msg1956 . The web ui firmware number is smaller but clearly, the interface is newer… It comes with something we can call a “design”, far away from the horrible original nearly “text only” interface.
So my final versions are :
| Device Firmware Version | 0.41.2.51 |
| Device Embeded Web UI Version | 0.2.9.12 |
You can download the files here : lr_cmos_0_41_2_51 (flash the lr_cmos first!) and WEB UI 0.2.9.12.bin. The video quality is really better ! Wifi is working, etc…
The update process doesn’t lost configuration or passwords !
A little tips working with all of theses ip camera, create some favorites to directly set or unset alarm :
Set alarm to send by ftp and by mail : http://10.0.0.50:99/set_alarm.cgi?next_url=alarm.htm&motion_armed=1&input_armed=0&motion_sensitivity=5&iolinkage=0&mail=1&upload_interval=1&ioin_level=1&ioout_level=0&schedule_enable=0&schedule_sun_0=0&schedule_sun_1=0&schedule_sun_2=0&schedule_mon_0=0&schedule_mon_1=0&schedule_mon_2=0&schedule_tue_0=0&schedule_tue_1=0&schedule_tue_2=0&schedule_wed_0=0&schedule_wed_1=0&schedule_wed_2=0&schedule_thu_0=0&schedule_thu_1=0&schedule_thu_2=0&schedule_fri_0=0&schedule_fri_1=0&schedule_fri_2=0&schedule_sat_0=0&schedule_sat_1=0&schedule_sat_2=0
Set alarm to send by ftp only : http://10.0.0.50:99/set_alarm.cgi?next_url=alarm.htm&motion_armed=1&input_armed=0&motion_sensitivity=5&iolinkage=0&mail=0&upload_interval=1&ioin_level=1&ioout_level=0&schedule_enable=0&schedule_sun_0=0&schedule_sun_1=0&schedule_sun_2=0&schedule_mon_0=0&schedule_mon_1=0&schedule_mon_2=0&schedule_tue_0=0&schedule_tue_1=0&schedule_tue_2=0&schedule_wed_0=0&schedule_wed_1=0&schedule_wed_2=0&schedule_thu_0=0&schedule_thu_1=0&schedule_thu_2=0&schedule_fri_0=0&schedule_fri_1=0&schedule_fri_2=0&schedule_sat_0=0&schedule_sat_1=0&schedule_sat_2=0
Unset alarm : http://10.0.0.50:99/set_alarm.cgi?next_url=alarm.htm&motion_armed=0&input_armed=0&motion_sensitivity=5&iolinkage=0&mail=0&upload_interval=0&schedule_enable=0&schedule_sun_0=0&schedule_sun_1=0&schedule_sun_2=0&schedule_mon_0=0&schedule_mon_1=0&schedule_mon_2=0&schedule_tue_0=0&schedule_tue_1=0&schedule_tue_2=0&schedule_wed_0=0&schedule_wed_1=0&schedule_wed_2=0&schedule_thu_0=0&schedule_thu_1=0&schedule_thu_2=0&schedule_fri_0=0&schedule_fri_1=0&schedule_fri_2=0&schedule_sat_0=0&schedule_sat_1=0&schedule_sat_2=0
Don’t forget to change your ip adress/port of course… You can change the “motion_sensitivity=5” to another value according to your environment…