HomeCamera: Setup a Home Surveillance System using a Webcam

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Are you looking for an easy-to-setup home monitoring security system for your room ? Do you want to see what’s going on in your room from your office PC ? How about getting alerted when someone enters your room. You can get these and many other features with HomeCamera. Basically, with HomeCamera you can setup your personal home surveillance system.

Home Monitor System

Once you sign-up, download the client and install the HomeCamera client, you will be able to see what’s happening in your room from any web browser on any PC at any time. You can even check the live stream from your mobile phone or Blackberry.

Home Surveillance Camera

Additionally you have an option to share your cameras with other HomeCamera users. So if you want to share your room or office camera with someone else you can do so by inviting them to sign-up with HomeCamera.

One of the coolest HomeCamera features is the ability to set motion detect alerts. This can scan the live recording and notify you whenever it detects some kind of movement. Alerts can include the screenshot (or 10 sec video recording) and can be sent to your mobile phone or email. Pretty cool.

No need to worry about the storage space, regardless of the size, your recorded videos and pictures will be stored online for up to 30 days. You can access them in the “Camera Archives” and delete the ones you don’t want to keep. Additionally you can gets them sent to your mobile or email address.

Download HomeCamera client from HomeCamera.com (via www.online-tech-tips.com)

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    5 Comments »

    2008-05-22 12:40:07

    […] (6) HomeCamera - Are you looking for an easy-to-setup survelliance system for your room ? if you want to see what’s going on in your room from your office PC then HomeCamera has what you need. Read more: HomeCamera - Setup a Home Surveillance System using a Webcam. […]

     
    Comment by Krasen
    2008-05-23 15:14:17

    I used Yet Another WebCAM software, and its great tool, however i guess the devolper dropped it :/ however its still downloadable and free to use :)
    http://www.yawcam.com/

    Comment by Aibek
    2008-05-24 04:39:29

    Thans for sharing, it’s always great to have a second alternative.

     
     
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