View remote PC webcam?

[tomgru]

I know i can use a local webcam in my BI feed, but is it possible to grab a webcam from another computer in my house? I have a server in my office that i'd like to connect a webcam to and attach that to my BI console?

I assume that someone has asked this before, but for the life of my search ability i can't find anything on how to do this.

thanks.

 

[fenderman]

I know i can use a local webcam in my BI feed, but is it possible to grab a webcam from another computer in my house? I have a server in my office that i'd like to connect a webcam to and attach that to my BI console?

I assume that someone has asked this before, but for the life of my search ability i can't find anything on how to do this.

thanks.

You can do it using something like yawcam...you are better off using an ip camera though.

 

[tomgru]

ok... thank. my challenge is that i have BI running on a virtual machine on Windows 10 using HyperV... so theoretically i could just attach a webcam to that install, but it seems that hyper-v doesn't allow me to passthrough a USB attachment from the host computer.