Ask HN: Dropcam without the camera

Posted by thrwawy20160421 on Monday May 09, 2016 @07:02PM
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Is there a cloud service like Dropcam, but the video can come from anywhere? I want a service that provides the 7 days of cloud video storage, the app, and the web-based video player with time lapse and DVR-like features. This might look like a software agent that you install on an old PC with a webcam attached.

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Re:Ask HN: Dropcam without the camera by tdburn on Monday May 09, 2016 @08:31PM (#11664396)

There's a lot of options and implementations. For cloud services there are foscam cloud, camcloud etc. They require you to open a port on your router ( kind of defeats the ease and security of dropcam type service.) For a home server there are a bunch of options. Blue iris I think is a big one and there is sighthound.com Good luck

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Re:Ask HN: Dropcam without the camera by thrwawy20160421 on Monday May 09, 2016 @11:32PM (#11664994)

Thanks for those recommendations! I also found some software that can upload to Youtube as well as Dropcam and Google Drive integration!

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