Browser Access Windows and Android Issues

[AminaNazari]

Windows and android users:

We couldn't connect to the Pi Cam browser using the http://naturewatch-cam.local/ address. In the end we managed to access it via IP with the camera feed and buttons having to be on separate browser pages. We could start / stop recording using 'IP address/ start or / stop'. Therefore other functions (toggle, max, min) didn’t work.

[mikevanis]

Hi @AminaNazari,

Thanks for testing it out. A few questions:

1. Did everyone have their own cams, or did more than one person try to connect to a single cam?
2. Did you see any difference between the windows machines and the Androids?

[AminaNazari]

Hi!

They each had their own cameras, which they had given their own names and passwords. But we were able to, for example, get the same camera feed on a laptop and phone at the same time but only using IP address. It was not a Chrome issue as one of them was running that on a windows machine.

Windows and Androids seemed to have the same problems. But everything was good using my macbook.

I've copied Evan into this email. @Evan, can you give Mike a quick low down on the issues we were having with the Naturewatch Cameras in the workshop the other day - you seemed to have a good handle on the problems and can probably explain a bit better / more technically than I can.

Many thanks, Amina

On 18 October 2017 at 00:23, Michail Vanis notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @AminaNazari https://github.com/aminanazari,

Thanks for testing it out. A few questions:

1. Did everyone have their own cams, or did more than one person try to connect to a single cam?
2. Did you see any difference between the windows machines and the Androids?

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Amina Abbas-Nazari

Research Fellow

Royal College of Art Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU

+44 (0)7946623551 skype: AminaNazari

amina.abbas-nazari@network.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk twitter.com/rca facebook.com/rca.london

[AminaNazari]

Hi Mike

Looks like a DNS issue. On Windows/Android machines the DNS setting aren't being picked up off the Pis (they are stuck at Google's), which is why they needed the IPs directly.

I've seen this often with local hotspots like this. It's tricky to design across all of them, but you could look into the DHCP service on the Pi and maybe run a local DNS on it. (I haven't done this in awhile, there might be better options these days)

Multiple computers can connect to the same Pi with no problem, as long as they pick up the IP address alright.

Cheers Evan

On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 10:37 Amina Abbas-Nazari < amina.abbas-nazari@network.rca.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi!

They each had their own cameras, which they had given their own names and passwords. But we were able to, for example, get the same camera feed on a laptop and phone at the same time but only using IP address. It was not a Chrome issue as one of them was running that on a windows machine.

Windows and Androids seemed to have the same problems. But everything was good using my macbook.

I've copied Evan into this email. @Evan, can you give Mike a quick low down on the issues we were having with the Naturewatch Cameras in the workshop the other day - you seemed to have a good handle on the problems and can probably explain a bit better / more technically than I can.

Many thanks, Amina

On 18 October 2017 at 00:23, Michail Vanis notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @AminaNazari https://github.com/aminanazari,

Thanks for testing it out. A few questions:

1. Did everyone have their own cams, or did more than one person try to connect to a single cam?
2. Did you see any difference between the windows machines and the Androids?

— You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/interactionresearchstudio/NaturewatchCameraServer/issues/1#issuecomment-337406706, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AfWOxHzM1R5fKGkRAP36ZbWjSIgvIu7Xks5stTbVgaJpZM4P8AJl .

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Amina Abbas-Nazari

Research Fellow

Royal College of Art Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU

+44 (0)7946623551 <+44%207946%20623551> skype: AminaNazari

amina.abbas-nazari@network.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk twitter.com/rca facebook.com/rca.london

-- Evan Raskob, M.P.S. PGCE FHEA Tutor, MA Design Products @RCA

[mikevanis]

Closing this as DNS issues have been fixed in Pi image 0.2