I want to put a couple of IP Cameras at the house of my nan so that the rest of our family can keep an eye on her in this tricky time of life.
I know this can be done with streaming services and also it can be done pretty easy with a Network DVR, but these cost a ton of money that I do not have at the moment, in fact I am now without any income at all.
What I do have is a bunch of Dahua IP cameras sitting doing nothing.
A NDVR would be the easy solution but this means that the rest of my family need to specific software installed to view the cameras, complicated for some of my family who struggle even to use a mobile phone, especially my mum who has managed to avoid using one up to her 64 years of age.
One luck and to my absolute amazement is that my nan was given an internet package for the elderly that is just fantastic:
A Very good internet access, I think is fiber based.
IP Based TV
A Linux Mint PC with printer
A router that has 3 spare ports ( in are the TV and PC ).
The router has a static IP address ( And I can ping it from the WAN )
She's 87 years old and has better kit than me
I contacted the supplier and installer of the equipment who have kindly given me access to the router to configure local port forwarding. I can log in fine and see the PC and TV connected.
So technically as I see, it has all that is required from a hardware point of view.
My thinking is / Port should show just a very basic featureless view of that camera on that port.
I want to try to do this without passwords and without us needing third party viewing software on our devices, so that all the family can keep an eye on her.
So the question is
Does it exist a free application for Linux Mint that can share/stream a couple of cameras connected to that router. I am not looking for high quality high speed video, just enough to see she is fine.
Good health to you all and thank you for reading my post.
I know this can be done with streaming services and also it can be done pretty easy with a Network DVR, but these cost a ton of money that I do not have at the moment, in fact I am now without any income at all.
What I do have is a bunch of Dahua IP cameras sitting doing nothing.
A NDVR would be the easy solution but this means that the rest of my family need to specific software installed to view the cameras, complicated for some of my family who struggle even to use a mobile phone, especially my mum who has managed to avoid using one up to her 64 years of age.
One luck and to my absolute amazement is that my nan was given an internet package for the elderly that is just fantastic:
A Very good internet access, I think is fiber based.
IP Based TV
A Linux Mint PC with printer
A router that has 3 spare ports ( in are the TV and PC ).
The router has a static IP address ( And I can ping it from the WAN )
She's 87 years old and has better kit than me
I contacted the supplier and installer of the equipment who have kindly given me access to the router to configure local port forwarding. I can log in fine and see the PC and TV connected.
So technically as I see, it has all that is required from a hardware point of view.
My thinking is / Port should show just a very basic featureless view of that camera on that port.
I want to try to do this without passwords and without us needing third party viewing software on our devices, so that all the family can keep an eye on her.
So the question is
Does it exist a free application for Linux Mint that can share/stream a couple of cameras connected to that router. I am not looking for high quality high speed video, just enough to see she is fine.
Good health to you all and thank you for reading my post.
