foscam FI8918W on UI5 works on iPad but not iPhone

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I am a huge fan of the automator app. Everything was working great on UI4. I upgraded to UI5. All seems to be working well except my 4 foscam cameras (FI8918W). They work on the iPad automator app in that I can view and control the cameras. On the iPhone, I can’t view or control the cameras. I do see the device on the iPhone. A camera icon is on the left. Then there appear to be 3 rows of buttons on the right. The top row seems to have two partially overlapping buttons and then two rows of a single button each. There are no markings in the buttons and they don’t appear to do anything.

When I updated to UI5 on vera2, I did install the foscam plug-in from the marketplace to get new and better control of the cameras through vera and the web browser. That update went remarkably well, very easy, and also introduced foscam motion sensors into my setup to trigger events (way cool). Before doing that plug-in update, I could see the cameras in automator app with the old camera plug in, but the camera controls no longer worked on the iPad or the iPhone.

I am wondering what I can do to make the foscam marketplace plugin work on the automator app for the iPhone.

Thanks for any help.

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Out of curiosity, is the ipad on the local network how about the iphone?

  • Garrett
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This is fixed in a version awaiting review from apple. 1.5.408 introduced a new camera type.

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Great to hear it is fixed in the new version under review. I will wait.

Garrettwp, the behavior is the same as described for the local network for the iPad and iPhone. The iPhone behaves the same way when accessing through mios.com. I haven’t tried the iPad outside of the local network recently.

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I too was experiencing this issue. Glad to hear a fix is on the way.

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This fix should be appearing in the app store soon.

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Just downloaded the update and the Foscams are working with iPhone again.

Thanks for the quick update!

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new update works for me to
thanks a lot