How to disable IR lights

It seems that the only way to disable the IR lights on this webcam from ebay without cutting the wires is to do this.

Yes. Stick blue tack all over them, and it has to be a pretty thick layer to block all of the light.

The many different clones of one IP camera

If you want to buy an IP camera, or have already bought one, and it is a cheap pan/tilt chinese made item, you should probably read this.

After a while of owning any gadget, one usually gets bored with it and wonders if there is a way to make it better. Usually, firmware updates are that way. They fix bugs and add more features for you to play with. Perfect. But you need to be careful with them. There are many different companies that sell very similar IP cameras that may have slightly different components. And if you install one companies firmware onto another companies camera, what you will get is a bricked IP camera. A "bricked" IP camera is one that is as useless as a brick at doing what is supposed to, it may be good as a paper weight however. So if you have one of these, make sure you get the firmware from the company it is actually made by, and not from a company that makes similar looking ones.

Here is an example:

 The camera above is made by a company called "EasyN"
And the one below is made by a company called "Foscam"

See how they look exactly the same? Except the top one has the LED and light sensor in different places.

Netgear 85 Mbps Powerline Ethernet Switch Kit XEB1004

I got the homeplugs I talked about in the previous post today. They seem to work well, until I start yawcam. Every time I start yawcam with ftp enabled, the network connectivity suddenly vanishes and I can't get it back without restarting the laptop. I have no idea why this happens, I have tried using normal ftp (FireFTP for me) and loads of other webcam programs and they all work fine except yawcam. Update: This is a problem with yawcam and certain network cards so it does not affect this product.