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Home Monitoring Program?

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49erinnc

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If one were to want to set up a single PC cam at home to monitor a particular room, what is a good utility to use. I'm looking for the following:

Something free
Something easy to use because I have no experience in webcam use
Something that preferably, will allow online viewing for anyone with a password

I'm not looking for anything super sophisticated here. Just a basic setup so my wife and I can openly observe things at home while we're not there. And though it's a bit off topic, what is a good webcam recommendation on the low-end of the price scale?

In case you're wondering, my wife wants to watch the dogs from work...I know, it's incredibly silly but just trying to keep the Mrs. happy and I don't want to invest much into this.

Thanks
 
Look at Ethernet enabled web cameras. That's the easiest solution in your case I believe.
 
I mentioned in hot-deals in a post about a QX3 microscope that I found an Intel Pro PC camera (/webcam) at toys-r-us (real store, federal way, WA) for $25.

I bought that camera many years ago, and one of the pieces of bundled software does what you're asking.
I believe the software was produced by Reality Fusion -- and was bundled in many Logitech web-cams as well as some Intel web-cams. You might try the logitech website to see if you can get just the software -- or maybe find the cheapest web-cam that includes it and buy it.

It works, and is pretty cool. You can either store pics locally, or configure it to post them to a web-site.
 
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