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.

Webcam setup

I used to have a reasonably simple webcam setup in which I used my old Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX (USB 1.1) connected to my laptop which was running yawcam. But now, I have got a new camera for Christmas. The new camera is an analogue wireless infra red CCTV camera thing.

Yawcam- Free webcam program

Yawcam is my favorite free webcam program. It has many options, you can set it to save a file to the hard disk with a set amount of time between saves, you can set it to save only on motion detection, you can set it to upload to and ftp server on motion or every so often. It can even run a server to show the live stream and another server to just show the image by itself. I used to use yawcam to run a webcam over on benellis.info but I didn't want to leave a computer on constantly, and nobody ever looked at my webcam. So I gave up. But yawcam was great while I used it. One of it's great features is the overlays. You can have it overlay the any text you want, or it can overlay the time and date or any variable from a text file such as the temperature.
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