Webcam in cottage

[Justenuff]

Originally Posted by jazzman

I'm having pretty good luck with Foscam cameras.

http://foscam.us/

They don't require an onsite computer. You just browse straight to the camera from afar. I have a nice android phone app that will display the camera output in real time and let you pan the camera around.

I have one that uploads an outside picture every 10 minutes to an FTP site and I have and another setup to email me a series of pictures if it detects motion. Funny that a dark cloud crossing the sun on a bright day will make it think it's seeing motion in the house.

I've managed to keep mine alive all winter so far with a mechanical timer that resets my DSL modem once a day (since a hung internet connection seems to be the weak link).

This stuff isn't quite trivial to setup since it requires you to make a few setting changes in your internet router and they're all different.

I bought a Foscam wireless camera and set it up on my porch to keep watch over my back yard and pool area. I followed all the instructions to the T, but only can access my camera from inside my wireless.
I like the Foscam for it's simplicity, relatively good picture quality, pan capability and even two way sound through the camera.
My IPhone has an app, which works when connected to WIFI, but not when I'm on the cell network.
Port forwarding, static IP address are all pretty foreign to me, and I'm still working it out.
Foscam offers free hosting for a few years (myfoscam), but I'm going to have to see if I can figure out where the block is.
Good Luck