DCS-5300 Pan Tilt Digital Zoom, Network Camera

I posted about the DCS-5300 on my blog, but thought it would be useful to have a link to it from here.

I also wanted to post the code for using the ActiveX video and this forum software handles it much better than the blog software does.

You will need to do a "View Source" on the particular D-Link camera you are using. I had to change the codebase link and I changed the CLASSID just to make sure it worked properly. I originally built this code for use with the DCS-3220G, but found it worked good for the DCS-5300 as well. It was much better than what I was getting from just hacking the code from the page.

For the addresses in the code linking to the codebase and the Url I placed the username and password for the camera. I used limited passwords without administrative control rights, they only allow viewing but not config changes.

I point domain names at the IP addresses the network uses so that I don't have to tell people to go to 167.232.124.209 in order to view the links from outside the network. I obviously did not use port 1234 for the camera. I actually used ports above the 40000 range.

If you have any questions, let me know.