Authentication Failed Axis M1011

[Justin Buist]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

I would advise against using the Axis netcam. It has a nasty habit of deciding to stop working for without warning for nebulous reasons. If you can use a USB camera instead, do so.

That hasn't been my experience with them. I use about 28 of the Axis M1011 and M1013 for security cameras and I track their uptime with Nagios checking them every 60 seconds. Most of them were at 100% uptime for 2015 if you remove instances where I had the network down for maintenance reasons. I might have 4-5 instances in a year where our weekly drop off the grid to generator power and back again mucks with the camera just right to keep it from coming back on.

In short: If you keep them powered up they keep trucking.

I have seen one of them flake out after 3 years of service though. Some days it would work and some not.