Hi Galen. If you have a spare smartphone lying around, many applications
exist which do exactly this. Unfortunately, my experience was years ago
so I can't remember any names. Obviously I'd be real careful not to
accidentally download malware of such a type, so if I were you I'd
download F-Droid to a spare phone and search for such an application.
However, I should point out that streaming video from a phone not only
causes it to use battery life as though it were a button cell cluster
powering a tablet but also causes it to overheat fairly frequently.
These should be no big issues for anyone with a fair bit of creativity
and determination, so I won't bother writing paragraphs of ideas :)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:05:37 -0700
From: Galen Seitz <[email protected]>
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]>
Subject: [PLUG] monitoring camera
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Hi,
I'm looking for suggestions for a web camera for monitoring a senior
that is living in our house. I'd like to be able to switch to a tab in
my browser and check in on them. I would also like to be able to do
the
same from a phone on my local wifi. I suppose this effectively a baby
cam.
Here are the features I think I want, but this will be my first camera
of this type, so feel free to point out the error of my ways. Of
course, I reserve the right to ignore good advice.
Simultaneously stream the video to two or more places (two people doing
the monitoring).
One way audio to hear requests for help, and to be sure the TV is still
working. Two way audio might be nice, but I'm not sure I would use it.
Local-only network operation, or at least the ability to shutoff
internet access, and confidence that it truly is off. Access from
outside the local network is not required (there will always be a
caregiver at the house).
POE if possible to simplify wiring.
Wide angle lens
Night time operation, but any infrared lighting must not interfere with
IR remotes.
Motion detection might be useful, particularly at night, but I'm not
sure how I would get an alert without needing some sort of phone-based
app.
I don't think I need the ability to record.
I briefly looked at some of the Unifi cameras this afternoon. I'd be
willing to spend at that level if the performance justifies it.
thanks for your help,
galen
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Galen Seitz
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