You would have to configure it on the camera itself, I think. If you set the camera to dynamic addressing and let the HughesNet modem set the preferred address by MAC, that would work, but probably not as reliably as a static IP. You may need PC software or an Android app to configure the camera itself, whether to change the static IP address or set it to dynamic addressing. I am not familiar with that brand, that is usually how it is done.
Hey David and all,
Was able to change the IP of the camera and it worked fine thru the day. But my software stops processing the camera around 9pm each evening. That's by my choice, as I don't have much need for a webcam at night. Comes back on a little ahead of sunrise each morning. Well, during the sleep mode, my non cooperating camera switched back to the old IP and I lost connection again.
As far as the Davis software, from conversations I had yesterday on a couple of forums, a few folks said sure, no problem, change the IP and things will be fine. But more than a handful stated do it a my own peril as they tried it, and tech support from Davis couldn't even help restore it back to old IP. Needless to say, I held off on that.
Anyways, will spend some more time later today with my friend google and see if anything else comes up.
If you want to see why I'm doing all of this, click to McKeanWeather.com as the majority of the data on the front page is from the Davis/Cumulus combination, and the webcam shows up about half way down the main page.
Thx,
Brad
"If you want to see why I'm doing all of this, click to McKeanWeather.com as the majority of the data on the front page is from the Davis/Cumulus combination, and the webcam shows up about half way down the main page."
That's a really nice site.
Very nice site.
I did happen to notice the high level of foreign hits you're getting and will almost guarantee a good lot of those are actually vulnerability probes and email scrapers hitting your logs... especially the ones from China. I've had to go as far as to block entire Chinese ASNs to keep them out of my site. You may also want to be wary of any hits from fake Googlebots or anything from googleusercontent.com, Amazon AWS, Microsoft, Linode, OVH, anything .ru, and any of the other sundry web hosting sites that may be out there trying to do malicious things on a daily basis.
Might also want to take a hard look at anyone using a browser version older than 2 versions behind the current one. Those are most certainly bots using faked user agents so they look real. For example, there's one Russian spambot that likes to use a faked user agent, making it look like they're using a Windows-based machine using Chrome/90.
