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Setup Step 3: Choosing a Name for your Camera on the
Internet
So now you should have been able to have a friend see you on your camera.
With typical residential internet service your router’s IP address can change
from time to time. Looking up the current IP address can be inconvenient, and
buying a static IP address is an unnecessary monthly expense.
www.no-ip.com is one of the recommended companies for “Dynamic DNS”
service. Also known as DDNS, this is a service that allows your own name to be
used as a substitute for the camera’s external IP address. Together with
software in your camera this also makes sure the name for your camera is
always updated with the correct IP address.
These DDNS companies are legitimate. They don’t spam you and there’s no
catch, other than the requirement that you log in at least once a month to
keep your free account active. They also have inexpensive paid annual service.
First you sign up to create a free account. We’ll use www.no-ip.com as an
example. The “Sign up” button leads to a “Create your No-IP account” form.
The free account is sufficient. There is now a shortcut on the account creation
form to sign up immediately for one hostname, but that shortcut doesn’t
appear to work for free accounts.
Once you have an account and once you validated it by responding to their
email, log in and select “Hosts/Redirects” on the top left of the screen, then
“Add Host”. For Hostname, pick anything you like as a name for your camera,
except do not use spaces or punctuation. Use only lower case letters and
numbers. Then click on the down arrow for the second part of the name.
There is a whole selection of free domain names you can pick from, as well as
some that they consider premium names worth paying for. For example, you
could pick
servehttp.com as we have done for our demo cameras.
Then be sure that only “ DNS Host (A) ” is selected. Don’t worry about the
current IP address and don’t change anything else. Click on “Create Host” at
the very bottom and you’re done! Please write down your complete hostname
as well as the username and password you used for logging in to No-IP.com as
you’ll need it for the next step.
DynDNS.com is very similar but is no longer free, so we recommend No-IP.com
Now proceed to the next section to make sure your name is updated correctly.
Note:
Do not download the update client or any other software from No-IP