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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => IP Cameras => DCS-5020L => Topic started by: cmontyburns on June 08, 2013, 01:32:46 PM
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Given that the camera's onboard webpage viewer requires either Java, ActiveX, or a mysterious H.264 plugin, it appears that there is no way to view the video from the camera on a mobile device without hooking it up to the D-Link cloud service. Is this correct?
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Here is a new released by D-Link that works independently of the mydlink services: Justconnect+ (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=53472.0)
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Thank you for that. Obviously I hadn't come across it!
Unfortunately, though, the app just gives me one more reason to be disappointed in this camera: the app connects, but no video! It's amazing, and kind of insulting, that D-Link shipped the 5020L. The few things that do work are far too cumbersome (browser administration requires not one but two plugins; focusing is manual and poor), and way too many things don't work at all (FTP and email among them and -- still, since the JustConnect+ app doesn't work with the camera -- mobile viewing).
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Quite often, when D-Link releases new cameras, the mobile apps and mydlink services take a while to catch up and provide full support for new camera models.