Page 1 of 1

Recommend me a webcam

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:45 am
by douglasgdmw
Looking for an indoor webcam for periodic check ups, essentially use referred to as a "Gran Cam" to make sure one of our older relatives is nice and safe.

Just wondering what webcam people are using and would recommend.

Anything else I need to think about, except bandwidth obviously?

George



Re: Recommend me a webcam

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2019 9:10 pm
by Lazydonkey
We have £40 Chinese wierd brand webcams from amazon and also Nest cams.

The webcams work fine as a camera but storing video on the cloud is a ball ache and you cna't ever shake the feeling that a small chinese man wanking over the footage. Also the alerting is very hit and miss. Use ours as a baby monitor and to save me going to the garage to check no-one has stolen the car!

The nest cams are superb but more like £120 and come with a min £5 monthly sub if you want to access more than live.

So it all depends on your usage....if you just care about live and don't want to view the past then something like this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Upgraded-Camer ... =ip+webcam

Would work fine

Re: Recommend me a webcam

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:31 pm
by Ferg
Worth checking out the indoor offerings from Ring and Blink. 👍

Re: Recommend me a webcam

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:04 pm
by j2 lot
Arlo too- originally battery operated so easy instal but you can get hardwired which would work indoors

Re: Recommend me a webcam

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:07 am
by scott_e
Kind of related. Mounting this outdoors on my house.

ieGeek CCTV Security Surveillance Outdoor Bullet IP Camera 1080P Waterproof With Night Vision,

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07 ... UTF8&psc=1

Nice solid metal casing. Had an Amazon voucher for Christmas and decided get some toys, got a dashcam to play with too.

Re: Recommend me a webcam

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:59 am
by mik
I have 4 of those iGeek camera (in the 720 flavour). They are good and the ability to view when away from the house is fab.