Comments on: How To Make An Advanced Wireless Video Baby Monitor

By: JōnZ (@jtjonz)

JōnZ (@jtjonz) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:15:57 +0000

Thank you so much for this! All I needed was the right url to get the audio to work with my camera. It only took me a couple hours thanks to you. I was looking at the source code for the camera’s viewing webpage for a while to no avail.

By: Build your own baby monitor revisited « prupert

Build your own baby monitor revisited « prupert — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:39:03 +0000

[...] a while ago I wrote about my attempts to make my own video baby monitor. I had also written about a few other approaches as well, but they were pretty involved and complex [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:29:56 +0000

Thank you for this posting. I was trying to research a good IP-based baby monitor alternative and have just ordered the camera based on this information (even finding the same ad art).

However, being an evil American, I was also very interested in the even less expensive Lonestar brand cameras shipping from within the US, which appear to have the identical case but make reference to a Taiwanese Winbond processor. But, I wasn’t sure in this case if that might mean other changes that might make some of these commands you’ve provided fail to work, and given the limited time available for setup due to my delays in ordering before baby’s arrival, I went with the one you got.

But to assuage my jingoistic guilt, I have recommended the Lonestar to my employer (it will suit his needs admirably), and if purchased I will take the opportunity to test it for compatibility with VLC and Linux using the techniques you’ve provided. I’ll report back then if possible.

By: Good Idea at the Time » Blog Archive » Ultimate Baby Monitor (for geeks)

Sat, 21 May 2011 03:09:26 +0000

[...] The camera has a lot of hidden functions built into it. Most are accessed through hitting URLs in it and kicking off some CGI magic. I found out about these while working on my own Ultimate Baby Monitor project, and found somebody else’s. [...]

By: techdad

techdad — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:49:35 +0000

VLC is an option for using these IP cameras as baby monitors.
I also tried this option. But these cameras may have noisy audio input; therefore VLC is not useful for audio monitoring most of the time. I developed a simple and free Baby Monitor application (Windows) for IP Cameras; you can have a look at it. http://www.smartbabymonitor.com. It’s able to alarm on audio activity and remove the noise. Audio monitoring is available with MayGion IP cameras (from http://www.dealextreme.com) only at the moment.

By: prupert

prupert — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:38:57 +0000

It’s great to be free of IE isn’t it

If you have an Android phone, you can use an app called IP Cam that allows you to view the video feed, listen to the audio and control it via Pan and Tilt. It is pretty awesome

But yeah, being freed from IE is brill.

Glad to have helped.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:20:40 +0000

Very useful information. Thank you for posting this.
I’ve had one of these cheapo ip cameras for ages.
I had left it ignored stuck in a drawer because of it’s reliance
on horrible ActiveX.
But after reading you post I was gob-smacked when I worked in VLC