Honeywell H4D3PRV3 camera log in; browser security problem

[FarmerEd 0]

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.

[51cent 8]

For chrome and firefox, look for IE tab and install and try those.

For IE you might try internet options/security and adding the ip to trusted sites. Then, under security click on custom level and try changing the activex settings to allow or prompt, you choice. You will get a warning that IE will be unsecure.

[FarmerEd 0]

51cent, I do not know what the first line means.

I had already done the other suggestions to no benefit.

[51cent 8]

IE Tab is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome[1] and SeaMonkey web browsers which allows users to view pages using the Internet Explorer (IE) layout engine. This can be used for viewing pages that only render properly, or work at all, in IE.

[FarmerEd 0]

51cent:

I thought it made no sense, since IE never worked, and Chrome never worked, but the IE tab for Chrome lets me access the camera. I thank you.

[FarmerEd 0]

Now, for an app for an iPhone or iPad to view the feed. What would work with this Honeywell camera? A lot of the downloads look like unpolished apps that make me wonder about the security of my phone and my network.

[ssmith10pn 0]

Use IE and once your on the camera web page go to tools/compatibility view settings.

 

[51cent 8]

Now, for an app for an iPhone or iPad to view the feed. What would work with this Honeywell camera? A lot of the downloads look like unpolished apps that make me wonder about the security of my phone and my network.

 

farmer, in your original post you stated, I believe, that you didn't want to access the cameras from outside the network and had no need for port forwarding? Have you changed your mind?

If so, the answer would be a VPN server instead of port forwarding.

[FarmerEd 0]

My interest in accessing the camera with mobile devices is only while on the local wifi network.

 

SSmith, with IE and FireFox, the camera web page lets me log in, and then tells me to click to download and install the plug-in. After I do that, I see the same message.

 

But with IE tab in Chrome, it works.

[ssmith10pn 0]

My interest in accessing the camera with mobile devices is only while on the local wifi network.

 

SSmith, with IE and FireFox, the camera web page lets me log in, and then tells me to click to download and install the plug-in. After I do that, I see the same message.

 

But with IE tab in Chrome, it works.

 

I work with systems every day that have cameras that go all the way back to 08.

Putting the site in Compatibility view and in the trusted zone using IE works every time.

[51cent 8]

My interest in accessing the camera with mobile devices is only while on the local wifi network.

Tinycam pro or Ipcam viewer pro by Robert Chou should be good. You would just enter in the local ip address when configuring.