I am new to vera and any home automation. I have a vera2 and only a couple switches and lamp modules. I recieved the pan 230 camera and ran into a problem at the wireless setup.
I followed the instructions and connected to vera, it found the device and i assigned it to a room. I can view it fine. Moving to the wireless setup, i connected to my router and put the ip of camera found in vera in my browser and it brought up the camera software. Instructions in wiki said to go to setup, and wireless which i did. The panel wanted ssid (it was filled in with netcam1892) which i left, i selected 802.11b/g, cipher wpa2-psk(aes). The remaining menu item was network key and ascii 8-63. I don’t know what to put here for network key. Can someone help and point out anyother parms in the camera interface or in vera i need so it can talk to vera wirelessly? I am network illiterate. While connected to router all is fine,even with findvera and ivera.
If i should have put this query somewhere else instead of new thread i am sorry.
Thanks
if it matters, i am running windows 7 and ie8
So is netcam1892 the SSID for your router? If it is then all you need to do is find out what your network key is? If your SSID is something different then you need to replace that along with the correct key. Some routers have this information written on the bottom of them. If not then try to find the instructions for your router to see if there are defaults that you could use (presuming you never changed it).
If none of the above is possible and you can connect via ethernet to your router then you should try to log into it to find out its key and SSID.
The other option is to use Vera’s WiFi. Vera’s WiFi details are printed on mine on a label (Vera1, not sure if Vera2 is the same)
Thank you for replying. I tried your suggestions but still had no luck. I am now thinking i don’t have a compatable setup for my vera to let the wireless camera talk directly to vera. My vera 2 is connected to my linksys 8 port cable/dsl router. As long as camera is connected, wired to the router it works but when i get to the next step for wireless it doesn’t. I think i missunderstood the following in the instructions: - connect your computer to the same network as your camera
- open your web browser and type in: http://camera1_ip (in this example, http://192.168.81.200)
- login with the default camera username: dceadmin and password: dcepass
- go to Setup → Wireless and set SSID, Cipher and Password to Vera’s wireless settings
which can be found an the bottom of Vera. (default Cipher is WPA2-PSK) - click ‘Save Settings’
- turn the camera’s bottom switch to WIRELESS and reboot your camera by cycling its power
[color=red][font=Verdana]Your camera should now connect wirelessly to Vera. If you change your Vera’s wireless settings you’ll have first to update them on your cameras, so you won’t lose connection to them. It says to ‘set ssid,cipher and password to vera’s wireless settings’, where do i find those in my vera?
You might have to check with somebody that owns a Vera2 but on the Vera1 its written on the bottom.
The default cipher that you listed is actually the cipher type and not the code itself. The other place you can find the code, is to go into the Vera GUI and under advanced and net and WiFi you should see it listed there; however it will be covered by ****** so you’ll need to probably set it to something known, save that and then enter that into the camera webpage.
You’ll also probably need to make sure the camera has a fixed IP and update that in the Vera GUI, there are a couple of ways of setting a fixed IP and thats a whole different ball game!
Did you buy the camera from MCV?
Thank you very much. That is what i had wrong, putting the vera2 ssid.cypher etc. in the camera setup for wireless was my missing step :). I found that information as you stated in the advanced settings and it is working great. A little slow in reaction to pan/tilt/zoom through ivera on my iphone but it works!
Thanks again
No worries, I have the wired only version and the Pan and Tilt is a bit slow with that also. The only place I’ve seen it work really fast is by using Internet Explorer and clicking the actual camera picture in the direction you want it to look.
Agree though…Really slow through Vera!