Any ideas on this one?

mairving's picture

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I am working with a animal hospital/ kennel on doing a website. Part of what they want is the possibility of having a webcam available to the pet owners while the pet is staying with them. I am trying to get some ideas on the best way to approach this. I am thinking that they will need a ton of bandwidth, a dedicated server and a pretty good pipe to the Internet on this one. I think that this would be an optional service $$$ for the pet owners so I really don't know how many cameras that they would need.

Anybody ever have any experience with a setup like this or webcam's in general?

Mark Irving
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You could do a pretty easy setup here. Just get a bunch of webcameras and use one of those free programs to post a new picture every 10 seconds or so. Run the program on different port for each webcam/cage. You can setup different directories and password protect them too. There might even be a program that can handle multiple webcams, I'm not sure (havn't used my webcam in over 2 years).

Mark Hensler's picture

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You might want to talk to my cousin, Dan. He's designed and built his own hardware. And keeps up fairly well with cam info.

contact in bottom frame:
http://tigercam.gliebetronics.com/

The site is not currently fully functional as he's recently disassembled some equipment to document how it was built.

Mark Hensler
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