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by bigchewy 3852 days ago
I tried an Arduino based one and the Raspberry PiCam. PiCam was far better quality. The challenge is getting it to stream real time which typically requires a hardcoded IP address. Easy if you have a router, hard if you live in an apartment complex.

The s/w for both can be largely cut/paste from the templates.

Of course you could also just buy a dropcam or similar device, which streams video to a site and then the mobile app watchest that stream, with a ~3 second delay. But that's not really fun

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Have you tried one of those Dynamic DNS services ?
not yet. I did some basic research but haven't gotten to it yet. I"m wondering if that is how the commercial IoT devices do it.