G+_Chad Winters Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Local LAN IP Camera? Hoping for some advice. My wife has opened a business in home in the upstairs office with a waiting area in the landing area. She does Speech Therapy and Dyslexia for kids and adults. I setup a Dropcam so parents in the waiting room can watch the session, but no matter how fast our internet there is a lot of lag as the video goes up to Dropcam servers and back down. I have not had much luck finding a similar cam that would stream the video just to the TV/computer that I have in the waiting room over our local LAN. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Foy Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Pretty much any that isn't cloud only based. The cheap foscam/dlinks should work fine. (I had a dropcam in my 'shopping cart' until I saw it was cloud only. That and deauth packets are easy to generate.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Neil Carmichael Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 I would look at keeping this as simple as possible. Is there any chance of running a cable (such as a cat 5) to run from one room to the other, either directly or via a central patch panel? You could then connect the two devices directly (using appropriate converters such as a pair of "hdmi to cat5" or "composite to cat5") this would give you the best quality, least lag and minimal things in the "signal chain" to go wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Foy Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 the HDMI to cat5 converters I've seen need two runs of Cat5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Neil Carmichael Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 It depends on the underlying technology, the ones using two runs can be not much more than an analog plug convertor (and therefore not good). I've had success with kramer ones based on a "hdbaset" chipset which requires just one cable and I've heard good things about "justaddpower" which uses (cabled) ethernet to create a virtual video matrix switch (at a big cost) The reason I'm suggesting this is as solution, I don't think he'll ever get great results with "cctv over ip" equipment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Chad Winters Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 Didn't even know about that option thanks. I assume that would not carry audio though which was a plus of the IP way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Neil Carmichael Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 You can get composite to cat5 converters/baluns that include audio, most are fairly cheap they are usually just doing an impedance conversion. Using composite also give you the option of cheaply wiring in some kind of video recorder for archival and safety purposes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Have an old smart phone? There are free apps that will turn your smart phone into an IP cam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Chad Winters Posted August 31, 2015 Author Share Posted August 31, 2015 That is not a bad idea could use an old iPhone to an Apple TV or an android equivalent. I have an old iPhone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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