Webcam from another PC to BI

[Saxet]

I recently purchased a remote property where I'm only present on the weekends. I have BI and several cams including a Logitech webcam on the PC that runs BI that is set to record when I'm not there in the (mostly) unlikely case of a breakin. My wife also has an always-on PC with a webcam in her remote home office. How might I add that webcam (USB connected on a different PC) to BI on my PC? I'm not sure that even possible, and I haven't been able to find anything searching the forums that talks about how one might do that. Yea, I do realize it's just a webcam...

 

[TonyR]

I recently purchased a remote property where I'm only present on the weekends. I have BI and several cams including a Logitech webcam on the PC that runs BI that is set to record when I'm not there in the (mostly) unlikely case of a breakin. My wife also has an always-on PC with a webcam in her remote home office. How might I add that webcam (USB connected on a different PC) to BI on my PC? I'm not sure that even possible, and I haven't been able to find anything searching the forums that talks about how one might do that. Yea, I do realize it's just a webcam...

I did it below in April of 2018, but it assumes BI is installed on the remote PC as well.

Thread 'Show cam stream from a Remote BI server on a Local BI server'

Apr 18, 2018

If you have access to a Remote BI server and would like to display one or more cams on your Local BI server, this works. I am not promoting port forwarding here so make your own accommodation for VPN.

Create a new cam on Local BI server as follows:

http: = "Remote-BI-Server WAN IP or DDNS Hostname:XX" (XX = Remote BI Server Port)
The "user" is a user on the Remote BI Server as is that user's "Password".
Choose "Generic" and "Raw H.264"
Path = "/h264/CamX/temp.h264" (CamX = Short Name of cam on Remote BI server)

The image below reinforces or clarifies the above instructions. On your...

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