Download Linksys Wvc54gca Drivers For Xp
This file is the Network WVC54GC Wireless-G Internet Video Camera Firmware for your camera. Always ensure that you backup anything you have before you install any new firmware. You need to extract the zip file before you start the install. This is a driver from 2006.Note: Firmware Upgrade instructions:. – Download the zip file and extract the firmware file to your PC. – Make sure to remember it’s location.
Keeping the driver or firmware of your Linksys device updated will fix issues that you may have encountered while using it, and contain device feature enhancements that are not available in previous versions. This article will provide you with instructions on how to download the latest driver or firmware for your Linksys device.
– Go to the WebUI of the camera (default IP: 192.168.1.115). – Click “Setup” and login as administrator (default user: admin / password: admin). – Click “Administrator” tab. Then click “Upgrade Firmware” Button.
– Browse to the firmware file you downloaded and click “Start Upgrade”. – Wait until the whole procedure is complete. Do not interrupt process!
I got this camera this week, and so far, so good. Installation using a Mac was a breeze. The key is not to use the installation CD from LinkSys, but to go straight to the web page. This is accomplished by first plugging the camera into a hard-wired ethernet port on a router, then finding out what IP address was given to the unit (most home users will be able to find this via their router's status web page or log file). Once you've got the IP address, plug that into your browser (I tried both Safari and Firefox, quite successfully, too) and go through the Setup page.
After you've got it setup the way you want, power off, disconnect the ethernet, and power it back on to go into wireless mode. (NB: both interfaces, the ethernet port and the wifi port, use the same MAC address if you have MAC filtering enabled on your wireless access point.) One point to note: I did try running the installation CD while running a VM (using Sun's VirtualBox and Windows XP) on my Mac, but due to the NAT'd address for the virtual machine (a class A 10.x.y.z address), my VM XP installation was not in the same subnet as the camera (a class C 192.168.1.x address), and the setup program could not find the camera. However, I was able to use the VM XP installation to load and run the ActiveX components for IE7 to view the MPEG4 ASX video stream as well as run the advanced Motion Detection ActiveX component for setting up 'windows' that the camera detects activity within.
None of this is necessary for use with a Mac, however. The camera offers several ways of seeing its output that are compatible with Safari, QuickTime, or Firefox. For example, use. for stills,.
for motion JPEG video, or rtsp://my.camera/#### (where #### is your 'Mobile Settings Access Code' from the Setup tab) for low data rate streaming video suitable for a PDA, cellphone, or Nokia Internet Tablet (I've an N800 that it works great with!) I was also able to get. to work in Safari with Flip4Mac installed, but performance was horrible, even on a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook.
As I mentioned before, the camera can be setup with motion detection. The key to getting it to work decently is to make sure that you've got a proper motion window setup for the camera to watch for motion. The camera won't be fooled by gradual lighting changes (like dawn or dusk), so if you set the window to a static background (e.g., a covered concrete walkway, vs.
A tree blowing in the breeze and subject to shadows from clouds), motion detection works quite well. You can also set the camera to not send motion alerts between certain times (like when you're asleep!) Of course, this must be tempered with my note below about setting the time Wifi range seems to be good - I've gone over 30' and through 2 interior walls from my D-Link DIR-655 802.11n router without any performance dropouts or other problems. Overall, the camera works as it's advertised. I like the extra mounting hole on the back of the camera, the long power cord, and the standard video and still image formats available. I also like that you can specify the still image output format via the URL (just tack on?size=#&quality=# to the snapshot.cgi), but wish the same could be done with the video stream. The video quality's not great, a bit grainy in low-light and colors are slightly washed out, but what do you expect for $.? I'm also not convinced the NTP client works at all on this device, which makes power outages or moving the device problematic for keeping the time set on it.
(see update below!) Manual time setting must be done against the browser client you are running to view the Setup page. That said, it's a strong 4 out of 5 stars in my book. I just might be buying another one of these to dedicate to the back yard.
Update, 22-May-2009 This camera's been running non-stop for the past 9 months, without any problems. The NTP client has proven to work just fine, in answer to my query above. I've never experienced any dropouts or disconnects that required me to reboot the camera. And, as I thought I might, I've bought another unit for my back yard! The motion detection has proven to be a bit more problematic than I originally thought. The problem appears to be 'blooming' in the image - the automatic exposure control slowly climbs a little bit, and when the image gets to a certain point of over-exposure, the camera automatically steps the exposure back. This causes the entire frame to change - and this causes the motion capture to trigger!
I used the motion detection for a few weeks, and got several bum triggers. Watching the camera one day, I saw this happen, and was able to then confirm it happened in the same scenario later. I've since turned off the motion detection, and rely on an external IR motion detector to trigger my capture. It's not the best webcam in the world, and it's not the cheapest (though darn close), but it is the best platform-independent, JPEG/MJPEG/MP4/RTSP, wifi webcam, for under a Benjamin.
(Well, give or take, as the price does fluctuate.) Things I wish they'd fix in a firmware update: - Fix the motion detection bug described above. User specifiable NTP server.
Non-Windows proprietary streaming video w/ audio. Automatic day/night exposure gain control. Ability to invert the image so the camera could be mounted from the 'top'. Still, I'm happy with my purchase! And it still deserves a solid 4 stars. I cannot add much to the large number of comments about the difficulty in setting this up.
I'm an electrical engineer myself that (with some help) is hosting web sites at my home on a linux server and has configured many devices on my network over the years. This one was by far one of the more difficult - not because there is anything inherently difficult about the process, but due to issues described below. There is absolutely no way that anybody who is not, at a minimum, a home-hobbyist with wireless networks will be able to set this up: 1. Like others, I'm mostly mac (6/7 computers).
As others observed, you only get audio with the activex on windows, but the visual is fine on the mac. But as a network device, this should be - and is - largely platform independent. WEP - the software that comes with this camera is garbage. I could write better software, and I'm not good at it. I used an old Windows laptop with XP to run the setup wizard, and when I got to the page where you enter your WEP key ('if you want to enter your key without a passphrase, leave the field blank and enter it on the next page'). Except that you cannot do that. I called customer support and spoke with 'steve' in bangalore.
I rarely call CSRs as they are rarely useful, and this was no exception. I got the usual boneheaded questions and, after 30 min, a promise to call me back (never happened). What you need to do is what somebody else recommended - simply log into the IP address assigned by your router using a browser. Now, I was not able to do this with Safari or Firefox on my mac.
IE worked on my windows machine. You can do the entire set up there.including the WEP key and everything else. Signal Strength: what screwed me up for an hour was that after I pulled out the ethernet jack it would work for a minute in my office and then die (i.e - assign the IP address and start broadcasting) I thought it was a network issue, but after reading the comments I thought I'd experiment with the radio. Turns out this camera needs lots of signal, or it just drops the connection. It works upstairs (where the wireless AP is) but not too well in some other places. Considering the application - home-wide high-bandwidth video monitoring, I hope the team puts in a better antenna system in the next version. 802.11n uses MIMO which achieves more speed with a cost of link margin (range).
At 2.4 GHz and the size of this camera is should be possible to put a better antenna system in without a bit BOM increase. Conclusion: this product is good (the hardware, network elements). The antenna system is bad.
The setup software is deplorable. I'd like to give this a higher rating, but the money saved on the front end for me was wasted on the back end time to configure this device. I got this camera this week, and so far, so good. Installation using a Mac was a breeze. The key is not to use the installation CD from LinkSys, but to go straight to the web page. This is accomplished by first plugging the camera into a hard-wired ethernet port on a router, then finding out what IP address was given to the unit (most home users will be able to find this via their router's status web page or log file). Once you've got the IP address, plug that into your browser (I tried both Safari and Firefox, quite successfully, too) and go through the Setup page.
After you've got it setup the way you want, power off, disconnect the ethernet, and power it back on to go into wireless mode. (NB: both interfaces, the ethernet port and the wifi port, use the same MAC address if you have MAC filtering enabled on your wireless access point.) One point to note: I did try running the installation CD while running a VM (using Sun's VirtualBox and Windows XP) on my Mac, but due to the NAT'd address for the virtual machine (a class A 10.x.y.z address), my VM XP installation was not in the same subnet as the camera (a class C 192.168.1.x address), and the setup program could not find the camera. However, I was able to use the VM XP installation to load and run the ActiveX components for IE7 to view the MPEG4 ASX video stream as well as run the advanced Motion Detection ActiveX component for setting up 'windows' that the camera detects activity within.
None of this is necessary for use with a Mac, however. The camera offers several ways of seeing its output that are compatible with Safari, QuickTime, or Firefox. For example, use. for stills,. for motion JPEG video, or rtsp://my.camera/#### (where #### is your 'Mobile Settings Access Code' from the Setup tab) for low data rate streaming video suitable for a PDA, cellphone, or Nokia Internet Tablet (I've an N800 that it works great with!) I was also able to get.
to work in Safari with Flip4Mac installed, but performance was horrible, even on a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook. As I mentioned before, the camera can be setup with motion detection.
The key to getting it to work decently is to make sure that you've got a proper motion window setup for the camera to watch for motion. The camera won't be fooled by gradual lighting changes (like dawn or dusk), so if you set the window to a static background (e.g., a covered concrete walkway, vs. A tree blowing in the breeze and subject to shadows from clouds), motion detection works quite well. You can also set the camera to not send motion alerts between certain times (like when you're asleep!) Of course, this must be tempered with my note below about setting the time Wifi range seems to be good - I've gone over 30' and through 2 interior walls from my D-Link DIR-655 802.11n router without any performance dropouts or other problems. Overall, the camera works as it's advertised.
I like the extra mounting hole on the back of the camera, the long power cord, and the standard video and still image formats available. I also like that you can specify the still image output format via the URL (just tack on?size=#&quality=# to the snapshot.cgi), but wish the same could be done with the video stream. The video quality's not great, a bit grainy in low-light and colors are slightly washed out, but what do you expect for $.? I'm also not convinced the NTP client works at all on this device, which makes power outages or moving the device problematic for keeping the time set on it. (see update below!) Manual time setting must be done against the browser client you are running to view the Setup page. That said, it's a strong 4 out of 5 stars in my book.
I just might be buying another one of these to dedicate to the back yard. Update, 22-May-2009 This camera's been running non-stop for the past 9 months, without any problems. The NTP client has proven to work just fine, in answer to my query above. I've never experienced any dropouts or disconnects that required me to reboot the camera. And, as I thought I might, I've bought another unit for my back yard! The motion detection has proven to be a bit more problematic than I originally thought.
The problem appears to be 'blooming' in the image - the automatic exposure control slowly climbs a little bit, and when the image gets to a certain point of over-exposure, the camera automatically steps the exposure back. This causes the entire frame to change - and this causes the motion capture to trigger! I used the motion detection for a few weeks, and got several bum triggers. Watching the camera one day, I saw this happen, and was able to then confirm it happened in the same scenario later.
I've since turned off the motion detection, and rely on an external IR motion detector to trigger my capture. It's not the best webcam in the world, and it's not the cheapest (though darn close), but it is the best platform-independent, JPEG/MJPEG/MP4/RTSP, wifi webcam, for under a Benjamin. (Well, give or take, as the price does fluctuate.) Things I wish they'd fix in a firmware update: - Fix the motion detection bug described above. User specifiable NTP server.
Non-Windows proprietary streaming video w/ audio. Automatic day/night exposure gain control. Ability to invert the image so the camera could be mounted from the 'top'. Still, I'm happy with my purchase! And it still deserves a solid 4 stars. I cannot add much to the large number of comments about the difficulty in setting this up.
I'm an electrical engineer myself that (with some help) is hosting web sites at my home on a linux server and has configured many devices on my network over the years. This one was by far one of the more difficult - not because there is anything inherently difficult about the process, but due to issues described below. There is absolutely no way that anybody who is not, at a minimum, a home-hobbyist with wireless networks will be able to set this up: 1.
Like others, I'm mostly mac (6/7 computers). As others observed, you only get audio with the activex on windows, but the visual is fine on the mac. But as a network device, this should be - and is - largely platform independent.
WEP - the software that comes with this camera is garbage. I could write better software, and I'm not good at it. I used an old Windows laptop with XP to run the setup wizard, and when I got to the page where you enter your WEP key ('if you want to enter your key without a passphrase, leave the field blank and enter it on the next page').
Except that you cannot do that. I called customer support and spoke with 'steve' in bangalore. I rarely call CSRs as they are rarely useful, and this was no exception. I got the usual boneheaded questions and, after 30 min, a promise to call me back (never happened). What you need to do is what somebody else recommended - simply log into the IP address assigned by your router using a browser. Now, I was not able to do this with Safari or Firefox on my mac. IE worked on my windows machine.
You can do the entire set up there.including the WEP key and everything else. Signal Strength: what screwed me up for an hour was that after I pulled out the ethernet jack it would work for a minute in my office and then die (i.e - assign the IP address and start broadcasting) I thought it was a network issue, but after reading the comments I thought I'd experiment with the radio. Turns out this camera needs lots of signal, or it just drops the connection. It works upstairs (where the wireless AP is) but not too well in some other places. Considering the application - home-wide high-bandwidth video monitoring, I hope the team puts in a better antenna system in the next version. 802.11n uses MIMO which achieves more speed with a cost of link margin (range).
At 2.4 GHz and the size of this camera is should be possible to put a better antenna system in without a bit BOM increase. Conclusion: this product is good (the hardware, network elements).
The antenna system is bad. The setup software is deplorable. I'd like to give this a higher rating, but the money saved on the front end for me was wasted on the back end time to configure this device.
Actually, at this point in time the camera is $89. I bought one a couple of weeks ago and have ordered 3 more. I have several Pansonic BL-C131a cameras and like them a lot. But even at the $240 price they are going for now, I'd rather have more cameras than Pan/Tilt capability.
Here is what I know so far about the Linksys WV54GCA. Setup - It took me a while to get the camera set up. It seemed much more complicated than the panasonics were. But then again, I'm not big on actually reading the instructions. Using my Vista Box was a complete pain in the ass because it kept blocking programs being loaded from the Linksys website (yea, I know there's pleanty of ways around that).
But eventually I figured it out and it probably took me 3 hours total to get the camera up and running. Included Software - The software is ok.
The camera's each have thier own webserver so once you're set up you just have to point to the IP of the camera (or, if you're logging in from outside your network point to the correct port). I'm using a program at home called Evo Cam for the Mac. Its a really nice little program for $40 and integrates my panasonic cameras and the Linsys seamlessly. It also has lots of recording/FTP/email/webcast capabilities so you can put your video wherever you want.
I assume there are similar programs for the PC and I would suggest looking into one instead of using the linksys SW.I use an iPhone app called IP Vision Pro and it handles this camera nicely too. Image - Frankly, I'd like a slightly wider angle lens. The picture is a bit 'cold' looking colorwise. Probably can be adjusted, just havnt gotten there yet. Not sure about low light performance yet. Will update when I can. Wireless performance - Here's where I think the camera may be a bit weak.
I have not yet put it more than 40 feet from my wireless router, but in my office, the signal seems to be weak enough that the frame rate is pretty slow. I'll be playing more with this as I go and will update. Bottom line is that you can set up a 6 camera home security system here for under $550 (so far I only have 4 cameras operating at once, if there are any limitations on numbers of cameras I havent experienced them yet). My plan is to play with this system and optimize it for my home, then if I get around to it, maybe replace some of these cameras with more high end equipment. Where to begin?
Well, the camera works, but thats about all I can say positively. Let's start with the hardware. The unit is a nice design with no external antenna, but is a little on the big side.
It has some flexible mounting options, though the backside mount has positioning limitations because of the power and network connections. The camera is pretty basic in capabilities. Even with 640x480, the compression is so high that smaller objects in the image are hard to discern, and this was after rasing the image quality to the highest. Network setup was pretty straight forward, and it was easy to get on my internal network. As other reviewers have stated, it takes some basic knowledge to expose this camera outside your local network.
One flaw impacting the camera I received, is it loses wireless connectivity on a regular basis that requires 'rebooting' the device by disconnecting power. Security settings seemed to have no impact on this behavior. The real stinker in this solution is the software. First and foremost, the signing certificate for the ActiveX control expired in June, basically rendering camera viewing through a browser impossible.unless you want to override your Browser security settings.
It would be extremely simple for Linksys to resign the control with a new cert and publish a firmware update, but that doesn't seem to be happening. Really bad form Linksys. Next, the actual software you install on your desktop for managing the camera(s) has a terrible UI and even crashed a couple of times. It wants to 'rediscover' all your devices every single time you go into Setup, and when you exit, it simply minimizes to the tray without informing you of this action.
In fact, the only way to close the application completely is to let it minimize to the tray, then right click and choose exit. The other problem seems to be that it 'forgets' your devices requiring to set them back up. This occurred twice in less than 48 hours. So, I can't recommend this product for level of use and for those that said it was okay for a $100 solution, I have to completely disagree. The WVC54GCA has many significant problems with its firmware that Cisco seems to be unwilling to fix. I say 'unwilling' because they have not updated the firmware in over a year. I say 'significant problems' because there are bugs that are obvious and interfere with the normal operation of the camera.
These include:. DHCP function does not renew its lease. You need to hard code the camera's IP address. I tried giving it a reserved lease on my router, and while it gets an IP address when powered up, it does not renew it, so the lease expires and it can no longer communicate until reset. The built-in administrative web server requires Internet Explorer. Configuring the Motion Detection feature requires an ActiveX control, but the application doesn't test to see which browser you're running, so Firefox users just see a blank pop-up with no explanation. Additionally, the signing certificate on the ActiveX controls have long since expired, so you'll probably have to lower the security settings in IE to get them to run.
Download Linksys Wvc54gca Drivers For Xp
Pretty ironic for a 'security' product. E-mailed motion detection clips do not support the full resolution of the camera. When I set it to record 640x480, the clips it e-mailed were only the top left 320x240 corner of the image. I had to set the video resolution to 320x240 to see the full image. Also, the e-mail feature does not support TLS or SSL, so you may not be able to use it with your mail provider. If you can live with that, it does a decent job, although sometimes the motion detection is triggered for no apparent reason.
I used this camera as a monitor to my home. At less than $100, you can't beat it. As far as setting up goes, it can get intimidating to the novice, but done right, this thing is amazing! Here are my observations/comments: 1.
Make sure you assign it a static IP - this prevents it from constantly changing IP address which causes 'off-air' issues. Do the manual wireless configuration via browser - the CD it came with is garbage. Test connection. You dont need a TZO subscription. I used a DDNS and set up port forwarding (default settings). Test connection.
I got this streaming into my BB Curve with great success via RTSP. Make sure you enable streaming in the camera's configuration.
Again, test and adjust. I enabled motion detection but in order to prevent clogging my emails, I used JPEG instead of video and schedule is within a timeframe. I liked it so much that the only reason I didnt give it a 5 star is because I wish it was water proof so I can place it outside.UPDATE: I liked this camera so much that I purchased two more. The first one is a view of my front door (to prevent it from getting wet, I sliped a clear plastic cover with a hole on the bottom to vent - I covered up the ethernet input to prevent it from getting wet).
The second on is pointed to my backyard pool so I can watch my kids from the inside of the house, and the 3rd is the view of the living room. Its on everday at specified time and records to my 1TB portable HDD (hidden away).
There are a lot of websites out there that can help you set this up. Please be patient and I question a lot of 'IT' guys here who really has no clue and maybe should take that refresher course in network engineering. I work on computers as a hobby not as a job, and I got this working in a day, like I said, RTSP even works that Im able to watch my front door from my Blackerry Curve live. I showed my setup to my parents and now they want me to do this to their own home. You can also assign a unique user ID and password to your family member so they can view it.
Just my two cents. I purchased this camera at the end of April. I had to wait a week before the item shipped. This is the second Linksys product I've had to return for a replacement within 30-90 days. If you own a Blackberry, you will not be able to view your website from your cell phone. Tried configuring mobile streaming.
Blackberries do not support RSTP. BB's do not support the file format. Linksys should let the consumer know that not all cell phones support their format. I'm not an IT professional and I set the camera up without any problems. Last week I go to check out my website.total blackout.
Call Linksys overseas and get a bunch of incompetent tech support agents. Finally the call was escalated to Cisco (USA), where I got results. Go to open the web page this week, no web page. I pinged the IP address, but still no web page.
If you can not access the remote setup page that requires your IP address, you will not be able troubleshoot the camera. Now I have to reset the camera and if that does not work, it's going back to Linksys. Amazon will not accept back without a 15%-50% re-stocking fee. The camera is mediocre during the day. The video is grainy. Camera site area is not wide angle, so you can not adjust it.
Picture does not completely fill screen. You will get 400 emails if the motion detection isn't set properly. If you point the camera at a street, every car that comes by will set off the motion detector. The monitor software crashes frequently. Solution, remove program, download new software from Linksys website and install.
At night, with software adjustments, if you have ample lighting on the area, the camera will detect and pick up the subject with sound. Do your homework when selecting a surveillance camera. For the money, it's too much. The price should be $50.00. You get what you pay for. Will spend the money for a security camera with a wide angle, night vision and all the bells and whistles. All in all, I can not recommend this product.
I just installed the camera during the weekend. All the features works. I am using an old Netgear MR814 wireless router. The DSL provider is ATT (original SBC global). Here are some hints to make it work: 1. Your wireless router doesn't need to be on the Linksys approved list.
As long as it has the DDNS support, it shall work. You don't need the TZO DDNS service. Any free DDNS will do the job. I registerd an account at dyndns.org. It works as well as the TZO's free trial DDNS.
One bad thing about TZO DDNS is the port 80 is by default open and work. You can add the alternate port, but you can't close the port 80. Almost all the current IP cameras don't support the SSL for the email. (including the pricy WVC210) You need to check with your ISP to find out which smpt port still support non-ssl protocol. ATT supports non-ssl smpt forwarding.
Call your ISP for the non-ssl smpt server address & port number. You can set up multiple HTTP ports for multiple camera access.
It seems that ATT doesn't block any port in my area I only give a 4-star because of several minor issues: 1. The camera is bigger than it appears. Kind of bulky to hide. The extension cord is only 6-feet, it shall be 9 feet or longer for easy mounting on a high place. No night vision at all.
Forget about using it at night. The camera utility software is a piece of junk. It crash quite often when you view the video and store the data at the same time. In a short, it is a decent camera and works ok for simple home monitoring. I love this camera.
Setup was simple using the wizard on the CD-ROM that came with the camera. It only took about ten minutes to set the camera up, including configuring it to send a text message to my cell phone (and my wife's) when it detected motion. The only part of the setup that some people might find tricky is remote monitoring. That's mainly a matter of configuring the camera's 'DDNS' option.
DDNS gives you a way of 'calling in' to your home network from a remote location. With a DDNS service, you get a web address and a login password that lets you log into your home network from anywhere on the Internet. Some DDNS services are free; others charge $25 or so per year. The user manual doesn't give much of an explanation of DDNS services, so the best way to learn about them is to check out a couple. The Linksys cam defaults to the TZO service.; the top Google hit is., which offers a free service.
Both sites do a pretty good job of explaining DDNS and walking you through the process of setting one up. Once you have done that, configuring the cam to use the DDNS is pretty straightforward.
I am very pleased with this camera. I am surprised it isn't taking over the retail security market. The included utility lets you monitor up to nine cameras at once, which would make it a very effective system for small retail businesses that suffer inventory shrinkage from the sales floor or the stock room. I suspect that a few out-of-work IT people will go into business selling security setups based on these cameras.
They should do very well. I bought this camera to see who was at the front door of my house. The only place to put it was from a window with a view of the front door. The distance from the wireless antenna to the camera is not that far, about 50 feet. Unfortunately, the signal needs to go through 4 or 5 walls to get there. The camera just does not pick up the signal.
It's a B network, so distance should be good even if speed is slower. I can get a signal on a laptop at that spot that's low, but good enough to stream a Google or You Tube video. I tried making one of those Wind Surfer antenna booster. I was surprised. It really did boost the signal, but still not enough for the camera. I kept the camera and put it in a window to the front of the house so I can at least see the front ('Hey, the newspaper is in the driveway.' I might try some more signal boosting a some point.
And it really is a pretty good value. All the stuff about easy set up is true, and assigning a static IP works so I've never had to do the on/off thing to get it working when a connection gets lost. And yeah, sensor stuff is really for inside. Too much motion out there. It will send you a boatload of email. The software that lets you have a bunch of cameras is kind of cool. You can get that bank of cameras look on your PC, and you can play command central.
Silly, I know. But I'm probably going to get another camera at some point to point somewhere else.