Why not just a webcam like an axis or a dlink with dyndns.org support. I
know the dlink cameras support it; I suspect other brands do to. Then you
just browse to it and view what is going on. Pan and tilt are supported too.


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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
kravnus wolf
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:52 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [OT] Monitoring a remote camera

Yes things have gotten more complex but still
understandable.

The first thing your need to do is to set your
network correctly. You may want to look into virtual
private network to allow both machines to talk to each
other.

John

--- John Nall <jwnall@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is posted on the off chance that perhaps
> someone on this list has 
> expertise with the subject.   I have none, and have
> to do a project.  
> Here is  the situation.  My wife owns a coin
> laundry.  She wants to 
> mount a small camera on the wall there, and be able
> to get on our 
> computer at home and look at what is going there
> when she is not there.  
> At home, we have a LAN which connects through a
> cable modem to a WAN 
> (Comcast).  The laundry has a computer there which
> also connects through 
> a LAN through a cable modem to Comcast.  My thought
> is basically that 
> she can buy a VCC camera which attaches to the USB
> port of her computer 
> at the coin laundry and that would be a way to get
> the video to the 
> WAN.  Clearly there would have to be a software
> driver in her computer 
> there to transmit the video when requested to do so
> (just a few brief 
> snapshots from time to time would be plenty).
> 
> But the devil is in the details.  Our system at home
> goes through a 
> router, with dynamic IP addressing.  The computer at
> the laundry does  
> the same thing.  So neither one has an IP address
> that can be accessed 
> by the other. 
> 
> Back in  the "good old days" we used to be able to
> transmit files from 
> one computer to another (at different locations) by
> connecting them 
> directly via modems.  Seems like it should be
> possible to do the same 
> sort of thing via the internet, but I cannot figure
> out just how to 
> accomplish it.  I did some googling, but this type
> of things seems to 
> take place primarily by having a web server, and
> that seems like 
> overkill for no more than what she wants to do.  As
> a part of the 
> Comcast service, they give me a "web page," but it
> seems like using that 
> would require that a file periodically be refreshed,
> which again seems 
> like a case of overkill.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> John
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