1 of 4 camareas wont connect

[billkater]

I am using the latest pro version of Vitamin d. I am using Foscam Fi8904W cameras. I have 3 of the 4 working just fine. The 4th camera will not connect. I have checked and re-checked the settings and no luck. I am able to connect to all 4 cameras with the web browser and with a app for my Android based phone, but not with Vitamin d.

Any suggestions?

Bill

[Semper Vaporo]

I am using the latest pro version of Vitamin d. I am using Foscam Fi8904W cameras. I have 3 of the 4 working just fine. The 4th camera will not connect. I have checked and re-checked the settings and no luck. I am able to connect to all 4 cameras with the web browser and with a app for my Android based phone, but not with Vitamin d.

Any suggestions?

Bill

Is the Fi8904W a USB camera? (I guess I am too lazy to search for it to find out myself.) I have a two problems with USB cameras...

One particular camera will never allow more than one of that brand/model to be connected at the same time... apparently the driver does not invent a new name for each camera that is connected, they all get the same name and VDV gets really confused when the images swap from one camera to another and back and eventually Winders gives up with a Blue Screen of Death.

The other problem I have run into is that I am unable to connect more than 4 external USB cameras (all different brand/models) with the built-in camera in the laptop screen, simultaneously. The last camera that I attempt to enable just won't connect. I am suspecting this is some sort of limitation with either my USB hardware or something in Windows itself. It is as though there is a limit of 4 cameras total and even if I do not enable the built-in camera it is still taking up space in some table of allowable cameras and I cannot connect a 5th one. I have one network camera and 3 USB cameras enabled (and the built-in camera can be enabled) all simultaneously, and I suspect I can connect more network cameras without problems, but I cannot add one more USB camera.

So in your problem... Is it always just one particular camera that doesn't connect, or is it whichever is the last camera you try to connect? i.e.: can you disconnect one camera of the 3 that are working and then connect the 4th? If it then works can you then connect the one that you just disconnected and get it to work, or is it then the one that does not connect?

[billkater]

All my cameras are IP cameras. Now I can only get 2 of the four cameras I have to connect.

[ryan]

Hi Bill,

Have you recently installed any new software on your computer? And are the cameras on a wired or wireless network?

You might want to use the "Report a Problem..." item from the Help menu. This will send us some log files that will let us know if anything odd is going on in the app itself.

Thanks,
- ryan