There are two things that increase with the growth of the economic crisis: the betting industry and the security industry. People tend to achieve economic stability through the streets that appear simpler. Also it increases when the crisis also increase the thefts. Those without a job will have to eat somehow.

Not that the thefts are justifiable, indeed, better to take all precautions to ensure that these do not happen. Especially I thefts in house. One of the most useful is that of the camera systems. With later versions, that is controlled with the internet, you will know if it's all right at your home within seconds, eliminating the worry of coming back and find everything upside down.

While waiting to see the first products with HomeKit, the building automation management system directly into iOS, you can buy some alternative solutions. Among the cheapest are the IP cameras are simple best wearable camera can connect to the Internet via an application.

Next week will I review one of these models, while it is good to have a guide to know how to set the camera. A guide that can be used with any IP camera.

The more expensive models have the app and automatic configurations, such as Netgear. Economic camcorders, namely those below 100 €, need to talk to the router. So the first thing to do is write down a couple of data.

We begin with the IP code of the camera. On the package, or under the device, you should get an IP address, user name and password. If you connect the camcorder to the source and to the router via the Ethernet port, you can access it by entering the IP address and the access data.

But since the camera must be placed anywhere and no Ethernet cable, you'll have to tell the router to let her do it. To talk the two devices have to open a door. I have a Netgear router, so I'll tell you where it is at that model, but more or less the router menu will look like.

You will now have three things: the IP of the camera, his login data and the door. Suppose the camera's address is 192.168.0.100 and the port is 3000, to access http://192.168.0.100:3000 write in the browser to access the camera.

Here you will, usually, these entries:

Mode active X (to use if you use Explorer)

Mode QuickTime (if you use Safari, Firefox or another browser)

iPhone / iPad

Smartphone Browser

Select your browser. For example if you are using Safari in Mac choose QuickTime. It will open the camera player. Go into Settings> Network Setup> Set basic network.

Confirmed. Then go to Settings WiFi and enter your WiFi network and the access password. Confirmed again. If you want, set the other parameters of the camera. You should now be affixed. Your camcorder can be viewed from any browser, as long as you're under your WiFi network.

You understand that this thing is used, but not to much. It is more useful to use the camera when you are not home. To do this we must go a step further. We must communicate to the camera with the rest of the world. Before continuing make sure you change the password for access to the camera in the settings. You can not even imagine how many IP cameras are available from the outside because the password is not changed.

To proceed you will need to know a basic concept. Each computer has two IP addresses: one is internal and serves to communicate the computer with the router (static IP), then the router converses with the outside. The second IP or Dynamic IP, the router connects with the rest of the world. The IPs are essentially of the coordinates, as a home address.

The static IP, as the name implies, does not change. The dynamic IP instead. Every time you turn on your router or restart, your old dynamic IP address disappears and is replaced with another.

To control the camera on the move I use the IP Cam Viewer Pro app (3.99 € for iOS - 14.6 MB). It is the best I have tried so far. App you can add an IP camera by entering the IP address, port, username and password and make of camera.

Do an experiment: if you enter the static IP in the example first 192.168.0.100 with port 3000 and access data, you will see that the camera's display works, if you are always under your WiFi network. If you disconnect the camera in the iPhone WiFi it is no longer accessible.

This happens because without WiFi you can not access static IP. Go into PortCheckTool site and mark the dynamic connected to your IP connection. If you configure a new camcorder with that IP in the application for iOS, with the same WiFi disconnected, this time displayed on the camera.

The problem is that if you reboot the router, skip the connection and so on, your dynamic IP changes, so you can no longer access the device. How to do? Fortunately, there are services that offer you a DNS address linked to a dynamic IP that it updates itself. Wiseupshop.com is one of them and offers this option for free.

Open an account by clicking on "Register" and choose the plan Free. When done, hit high on Management Host and select "New Host". Enter a name, preferably short. For example, if you choose peppe address will become peppe.homepc.it. The item IP Address put your dynamic IP address, seen with PortCheckTool and confirm. Returning to Host Management page, you should see your address (peppe.homepc.it), the Dynamic IP and Active and OK status updated.