Creative Webcam III - motion detection

[Technik]

Is anybody using that device with WL-500b/g? The camera is working for me but I am not able to get any pictures sent by e-mail. The motion detection does not seem to be working - the router does not try to connect the SMTP server at all. I would appreciate if somebody could put the working Security Mode Setting here... I have the SMTP server running at LAN address 192.168.1.2, router's address is default - 192.168.1.1. I am able to send an e-mail from WL-500b by sendmail application manually.

What is also strange to me - the RCAMD application is present 3 times in memory - I wonder if this is normal or not... :confused:

And another problem is that Webcam is not properly initialized after the router reboot in most cases. Usually I have to unplug it and plug to router again to get the Webcam working... :(

Any comment / advice is welcome...

PID Uid VmSize Stat Command
1 0 1864 S init
2 0 S [keventd]
3 0 S [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
4 0 S [kswapd]
5 0 S [bdflush]
6 0 S [kupdated]
7 0 S [mtdblockd]
211 0 1840 S syslogd -m 0 -O /etc/linuxigd/syslog.log -t MET-1ME
215 0 1840 S klogd
288 0 1480 S udhcpc -i eth1 -p /var/run/udhcpc.pid -s /usr/share
324 0 1544 S httpd
342 0 1456 S /sbin/dproxy -c /etc/dproxy.conf
372 0 S [khubd]
440 0 1592 S /sbin/lpd
441 0 1448 S /sbin/infosvr br0
444 0 1860 S /bin/sh /init/rc.watchdog ROUTER
445 0 1868 S /bin/sh /init/upnpserver eth1
456 0 2456 S upnp -D -L br0 -W eth1
467 0 1448 S /usr/sbin/watchdog 30 192.168.1.2 MET-1METDST 11111
491 0 6448 S /usr/sbin/rcamd -m 100 -c 100 -f 320x240 -p 7777 -s
492 0 6448 S /usr/sbin/rcamd -m 100 -c 100 -f 320x240 -p 7777 -s
493 0 6448 S /usr/sbin/rcamd -m 100 -c 100 -f 320x240 -p 7777 -s
537 0 1840 S sleep 30s
541 0 1844 S sh -c ps > /etc/linuxigd/syscmd.log

542 0 1844 R ps

[Antiloop]

strange behaviour,

note: i have not tested my webcam yet with the new firmware 1.6.5.3

with the old firmware my webcam was initialized correctly, but the motion detection was not working correctly because of the noise it produces and thinking that there was a movement.. (so i was spammed deadly with my own webcam pics)

i'm using a philips webcam vesta pro 680k


reply from asus few weeks ago (firmware 1.6.4.8)
Dear Sir,

Sorry for my late reply.

For webcam alert: I think it may because of the noisy signal from Web camera.

We tested it and found that the quality of QuickCam Express 4000 is quick good for monitoring. And Philip's WebCam used on WL500g/b with some noisy frame and result in mis-judgment for mail alerting function. So please try another WEB cam to have test.

As for Virtual Server, from the setting you gave, it should be okey. But this function should work after setting and restarting. It never work when only adding into list but not restarting the device. So please restart WL-500g once you make any new configuration.

If any, please advise.

Best Regards,

Sebastian.

[Technik]

Well, thanks for your reply, Antiloop. ;) So my understanding is that only one RCAMD should be present in memory (when I tried to kill some copy of RCAMD, all three were killed...). And the bad initialization of WebCam III is probably the reason why the monitoring function does not work... The behaviour was exactly the same with firmware 1.6.4.6. Now I am running 1.6.5.3. Hopefully the next firmware version could work a bit better with my WebCam...