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jazzman · 01-27-2014, 07:19 PM

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.

01-27-2014, 07:19 PM	#4
jazzman Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Mont Vernon NH & Big Barndoor Island Posts: 320 Thanks: 4 Thanked 184 Times in 62 Posts	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.