Problems encountered so far

As with all great projects, there will always be a few limitations we need to overcome.

After Monday (26th May) lecture, there are two issues to be addressed:

1. We need to find a way to get around the security issue surrounding the mydlink account that governs the camera usage. We have established the fact that the laptop used to access the mydlink viewing page and the camera itself has connection to the local school server. This might likely be resolved by recreating the mydlink account and registering the IP address using NTUSECURE.

2. The huge lag experienced during the live feed is likely due to the fact that the path the feedback is sent is really very complex. The flow chart below (I do not own this picture, taken from and credited to mydlink.com) shows the layers of filters the feedback needs to travel from the camera to the laptop for the user to view the live feed.

What we hope to do is keep the path in the blue zone, from the Camera to the Router to the PC.

This is why Open source is important, look at all the trouble we could have potentially avoided. Unfortunately, we were not able to get an open source camera, given the time frame we were given to work with, which would have been much easier to work with.