Comments on: How to Monitor Baby with Webcam

Question: How to Monitor Baby with Webcam

damiano99 — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:06:39 -0800

New Baby / Webcam Question: I'll be taking our baby to work with me from now on. I'd like to hook up a webcam over her crib in my office and have it upload a pic every so often (automatically) to my website so that my wife can see her from work. What's the best program solution for this?

By: sexymofo

sexymofo — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:44:18 -0800

Just about every web cam comes with software that will do that for you. If you post what web cam model, operating system and if you have any firewall restrictions at work, someone can probably give you some additional helpful information.

By: starman

starman — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:48:12 -0800

This doesn't quite fit your website needs, but:

With a Mac, iSight and iChat, you can point the iSight at the baby and be signed into iChat with a particular screen name. In the preferences you can set it up to automatically accept video chats.

Then, on another computer with iChat & iSight, you can start a video conference and see the baby.

A guy I know did this to keep an eye on his puppy.

You can also substitute a video camera for an iSight.

By: rafter

rafter — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:54:10 -0800

Years ago, I downloaded the freeware Booru Webcam (Windows) to run a webcam. It should read from just about any plug-and-play webcam and uploads a file at a given interval to the FTP address of your choice.

By: m@

m@ — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:10:56 -0800

How about an IM client that allows you to share your webcam only with 'chosen' buddies?

By: terrapin

terrapin — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:20:22 -0800

If you are on a Mac you can use EvoCam to accomplish what you are asking, or you can use iChatAV as suggested. I use EvoCam for my current webcam needs and love it. If you are using windows, I think WebCam32 is still around and still will do what you want. I have used both for various webcam uses.

The iChatAV configuration would be cool because of the audio feature. Your wife could "speak" to the child. This may be a good thing.

Good luck and have fun!

By: DrtyBlvd

DrtyBlvd — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:30:51 -0800

Nice and easy one for you - ConquerCam