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I want to be able to input the URL of my computer and immediately see my webcam.

When I'm away from home.  Using it like a security camera.

I thought this would be very easy to do but I've searched the web to and fro on that same search 'stream webcam' and the answers I get don't fit what i want.

Some apply to IP cams which come with their own IP addresses.   A standard 'dumb' webcam doesn't and it is one of those I'm talking about.

Some refer to online third party setups.  I don't want one of those.

Some refer to software which must run at this end and also at that end - just like having Skype at both ends.   I don't want that either. 

I have a fixed IP for my computer.  So I don't need explanations for how to provide that, I've already got it.

This feature I once had, years ago.  I think I had it with Yawcam.  I think it was standard with it.  But Yawcam won't install and run on my computer now and I haven't been able to fix the problem.

So...  that's why I'm here...  any help?

ac3mark · Answer

What OS are you using?

YOU are funnny!  I love statements like this:
I want to be able to input the URL of my computer and immediately see my webcam. 

Ok, so go ahead and turn on IIS!  You do have IIS enabled right?  IIS will allow your station to become a website.  Now, point that IIS controller to a virtual directory, that is running a java app server, that is connected to the webcam!  It really is that simple!

BTW, you will need a NAT, and a firewall!  NAT is for the INTERNAL network translation.  In other words, the fixed IP on you computer is OUTWARD facing, but your PC really has an unroutable IP address, and the internet will not know what to do with that IP address once you have placed it into a browser that is on the internet.  The NAT will translate your 34.54.23.12 address into a address like 192.168.1.1.


Or, get a third party app.  Or get a a webcam with DVR, and publish it!  The WEbcam DVR is SO SIMPLE to deploy, just takes capital cost for hardware.



It's kind of fun to do the impossible! -Walter Elias Disney

abrogard · Answer

thanks for the reply but it didn't help.  didn't tell me anything i don't already know.

I'm using win10.  IIS has been enabled here for about 10 years i think.

here's a camera :  XXX login 'guest' pswd 'guest'

the point is to get a view of a dumb typical webcam.

sorry if i didn't make that sufficiently clear.

ac3mark · Answer

So did you find your answer?

abrogard · Answer

No.

There's been no answers yet, no suggestions.  Only a misunderstanding.

ac3mark · Answer

But, the webcam displays.  What are you trying to do, publish your PC name to the internet so when you enter your PC name at the library, the library PC finds it?

ac3mark · Answer

Do you want to "wrap" the "view of a dumb typical webcam" with some border?

ac3mark · Answer

Do you want to have a selector of different cameras on the right hand "window"?

abrogard · Answer

How can I make it clear?

I can only repeat what I said:

quote:
I want to be able to input the URL of my computer and immediately see my webcam.

When I'm away from home. Using it like a security camera.
unquote:

The camera I gave the URL to is NOT a webcam.  It is a purpose built wifi IP camera.  It is NOT a 'webcam'.

The webcams I am talking about are those little tiny black things sitting on top of your screen or on you computer.  See?

abrogard · Answer

nonsense.  mate I think you're a troll.  it can be done, yawcam does it,  the right kind of programmer would know instantly what kind of code does it.

You're enjoying yourself but you're not contributing anything.

I see there's no other respondents.

I think this is essentially a dead board, right?

abrogard · Answer

couple of trolls now.  all verging on insulting and impolite.  i don't know what the problem is.  i came here from a google search without knowing what i was coming into.

i am more than happy to leave and never return.  more than happy. deliriously happy.

but mildly curious.  what's the problem?  i think maybe it's money. i see an (gratuitously insulting) reference to it up there.  why would it be money?

possibly this web site belongs to some piece of software they want you to buy and won't talk about anything else that might usurp that software.

is that it?

or maybe it belongs to a bunch of programmers or would-be programmers putting themselves up for hire and not about to divulge any real information unless they're paid.

would that be it?

well i don't know.  i've got no idea what ccm might mean though I can think of few possibles going on what i've experienced here.

i leave you all to your own devices.  

the field is yours.  thanks for nothing.  please ban me from your forum, we are inimical.

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