I have a Honeywell H3D3PRV3 IP camera outside under the eave. It is wired, and is supposed to be ONVIF compliant. It is used only to monitor the status of my driveway just outside my garage, which is otherwise not visible with the garage doors closed. I do not have any recorder, nor felt the need for one. It worked well for 5 months. I could keep an active web page up using FireFox to monitor the camera. FireFox recently created a new version (auto update!) and changed their security settings. They no longer consider ActiveX controls secure, so it no longer even shows me the log in page. I can access the camera from its own set up application, and with it monitor the camera (in a small window), but now neither browser (IE, FireFox, or Chrome) works with the camera. I logged onto the Honeywell web site for a software download hoping for software that would use some other method for logging in, but there is none. Chrome and IE never worked even when this was first installed. With them, I see the log-in page and I can download the plug-in, but neither browser ever uses that plug-in, so I am always asked to download it. Are there any suggestions?
I have no need for IP forwarding, so had not planned to view this from outside the network.
Separately, I did downloaded and tried 2 free apps for my iPhone. Each could see my camera's IP address, but each was too crippled to do anything else. I was unwilling to pay for an app to test one if the same company or person who made the ones which would not work make the apps that cost. Furthermore, I have concerns about the safety of those apps and what they are doing with my phone.
Can anyone vouch for an app they trust for a Surface or iPhone or iPad? Originally I had expected to have an old iPad near the door on that side of the house to monitor the area if I hear or suspect something.