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Womnizr

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Hi everyone,

I used to have BI running on a pc in my garage and had a usb webcam connected to it to view my garage and I was worried that the PC would be the first thing stolen if someone got into my garage so I moved BI to another machine in my basement. Is there any way to get access to the webcam again over the LAN?

TIA!
 
Womnizr said:
Hi everyone,

I used to have BI running on a pc in my garage and had a usb webcam connected to it to view my garage and I was worried that the PC would be the first thing stolen if someone got into my garage so I moved BI to another machine in my basement. Is there any way to get access to the webcam again over the LAN?

TIA!
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Welcome to the forum. You would need another pc or device running near the webcam. You are better off replacing it with an IP camera.
 
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Thank you, and I guess I forgot to mention it's still connected to the original PC. I only moved BI to another machine.
 
Womnizr said:
Thank you, and I guess I forgot to mention it's still connected to the original PC. I only moved BI to another machine.
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Do you normally keep that pc running 24/7? if not the extra power cost will pay for a new ip camera many times over.
If its running anyway, look at yawcam...
 
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yeah... I do keep all of my pc's running 24/7... you do raise a good point! Thanks for the help, I will.
 
Womnizr said:
yeah... I do keep all of my pc's running 24/7... you do raise a good point! Thanks for the help, I will.
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No problem. If you are not running servers, then putting them to sleep or shutting down will save you considerable amounts of money.
 
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