How to stream video to a website

[MesquiteMan]

I have a Foscam IP camera set up on my CNC router to allow me to watch it run from the quite and comfort of my shop office instead of having to sit there. I can view the camera by going to its ip address in Firefox and logging in. I would like to be able to have the camera stream available on my website so folks that are interested can watch while I am cutting out parts if interested.

I know how to port forward the camera so someone outside my network can log in but one one person at a time can do it. I know there are cloud based services out there you can use but have, so far, only seen ones that charge money. Being that this is just for fun, I have a hard time paying to stream!

Does anyone know of a free cloud based IP camera streaming service that can be embedded on a website? Any help would be appreciated!

 

[MesquiteMan]

Here is a snapshot of what it looks like just for grins.

 

[alphageek]

Have you looked at this page?
Foscam Forum • View topic - Webpage - Embed Live Stream

otherwise the other option might be to tie your camera to stream to something like stream then embed the ustream into your web page?

 

[alphageek]

P.S. seeing that pic reminds me - you were going to share details about your vacuum set up. I can't find that thread.. did you ever do that?

I'm hoping to get into the shop and the vacuum table is something I would love to build.

Dean

 

[Chuck Key]

If you are open to using an IOS device AirBeam may be an option.

 

[MesquiteMan]

Have you looked at this page?
Foscam Forum • View topic - Webpage - Embed Live Stream

otherwise the other option might be to tie your camera to stream to something like stream then embed the ustream into your web page?

Seen the Foscam forum directions but it is quite lacking. Only a certain number of viewers at once and every extra viewer drains my bandwidth. I did look at Ustream but I believe they do not allow you to embed on a web page without paying a monthly fee.

 

[MesquiteMan]

If you are open to using an IOS device AirBeam may be an option.

Do you mean using an IOS devise as the camera? If so, that is not an option as I don't have one I would want to dedicate to the CNC. Right now, my Foscam is permanently mounted to the CNC.

 

[Skewer]

If your internet connection has a static IP address, it's possible to make it available to the internet. If you get a dynamic IP address, there are some services that you can use that will map your IP address to a DNS name, so you would get pretty much a web address to direct to your changing IP address - then there is usually an agent that runs on your internal network somewhere to keep that IP updated appropriately. There are some free services that do this, and some pay. You could also call your service provider to see how much they would want to give you a static address.

dyndns is one i've used in the past, but they aren't free anymore from what i understand:
The Best Free Alternatives to DynDNS

 

[alphageek]

Have you looked at this page?
Foscam Forum • View topic - Webpage - Embed Live Stream

otherwise the other option might be to tie your camera to stream to something like stream then embed the ustream into your web page?

Seen the Foscam forum directions but it is quite lacking. Only a certain number of viewers at once and every extra viewer drains my bandwidth. I did look at Ustream but I believe they do not allow you to embed on a web page without paying a monthly fee.

Yes, you would have issues with lots of viewers w/o multicast.

From what I read ustream lets you embed.. pro gives you more options, but you should be able to make it work and then its only a single stream out of your house....

decent how to (from my initial read) here: https://ustream.zendesk.com/entries/22434927-How-to-embed-a-stream-or-video-on-your-site#channelpage

 

[Chuck Key]

If you are open to using an IOS device AirBeam may be an option.

Do you mean using an IOS devise as the camera? If so, that is not an option as I don't have one I would want to dedicate to the CNC. Right now, my Foscam is permanently mounted to the CNC.

Yes, IOS camera so this would not work for you. I have an iPhone 4s that the wife dropped in our pool twice a couple of years ago. The water messed up the phone part of it but everything else is fine so I use it for this type of stuff.

 

[TonyL]

I have 5 fOSCAMS (Love the and hate them). I use the to complement my security systems. I pay 30 a year a so for dyndns.org to host. I haven't figured out any other way. I also you port forwarding and can check out things using 3 or 4g. I did go through heck setting them up. I an not a techie.