Nokia N800 as a Home Monitoring and security tool

I recently got one of those wireless home monitoring cameras from Linksys, the WVC54GCA. It’s a pretty cost effective way of adding cameras to your house to keep an eye on things. Due to the fact that it’s relatively cheap and wireless you can add several of them without the hassle of network wires. The coolest thing about this system is that you can wirelessly stream live video to just about any browser, while using your home WiFi or accessing it via the Internet while on the go. I’ve been using it as they recommended in the product manual: accessing the live streaming video from the camera through a browsers on my Notebook or Desktop PC. If you happen to be using either one of these it sure is convenient having live streaming video streaming of what is happening around your house. This is helpful for those of you with large properties or maybe you just want to keep an eye on the kids playing outside.

The problem is that when I’m at home I usually move around a lot: one minute I’m watching TV in the living room, the other I’m outside reading the daily news paper and I usually I don’t want to be walking around with my notebook. It’s much more convenient to have something that’s easy to carry, but yet has a big enough screen to show you what’s happening around your home, using the strategically placed home monitoring cameras. This where the N800 steps in. The N800 is portable enough to be carried around, yet has a big enough screen to give you a detailed view as to what is happening. Most importantly the browser is capable of handling the 640x480 streaming video just fine. This is all made possible by the web-based setup and monitoring of the camera. Using the N800’s browser I can change the camera’s settings on the fly and monitor what is going around my home while I’m actually at home or even out and about during your daily commute. Because the system uses ordinary WiFi I can quite easily bookmark the address of several cameras and monitor different areas through different cameras around the house.   I did try to access the web interface on the N95 8GB and while the entire web interface works, the actual video being streamed isn’t displayed. There is a mobile streaming setting, but in the end the N95 8GB just ends up downloading a file that only keeps increasing in size, but the actual video is never displayed. I’ll have to play with the settings a bit to see if I can get it up and running on the N95 8GB.

This is how the interface looks on the PC:

And this is how it looks like on the N800:

A pretty nice and portable way of keeping an eye on things.

Comments

[Abdullah]

i have same thing with N95 and HTC P3600
can you help to solve this?

regards

Abdullah

[Abdullah]

I have the same
with booth n95 and HTC p3600 can you help me to solve this
i need it to watch my Baby
regards

Abdullah

[Devin Balentina]

Reader,
Hi. Sadly I couldnt get it to work with the N95 8GB browser. Works fine on the N800 and should work the same on the N810.

[Reader]

Nice. Did you ever get the N95 to work? Did you post how? If so where?

Thx.