How To See A Webcam From the Internet?

I believe there's thousands or maybe millions of live webcams all over the world, right?  In people's bedrooms and everywhere?  All viewable from the web.
 
I've seen a few some time in the past.
 
Now I'd like to set my webcam up so's I can see it when I'm out of town - like a little extra security camera.
 
I think I did that once in the past, too, with Yawcam, but I can't get Yawcam to run on my win10 setup here at the moment.
 
So how can I get to make my webcam viewable from the web?
 
I have win10.  I run IIS.  We have little home LAN.  I have IP cameras already viewable from the web,.
 
They are security cams.  Cover the outside.  Just thought recently why don't I enable a webcam or two inside the house?  Only means leaving a computer switched on and I'll have security inside, too.
 
But I can't find how to do it.
 
Read a few things on the web without success.  Some of them suggest software that requires it be installed both at home and at the other end.
 
Don't want that. 
 
Some even suggested an IP camera.  That's not the point.  Got them.  Want this.
 
Some suggest webcam software that when I install it doesn't seem to have that option.
 
Some install and won't run.
 
All kinds of things.
 
Anyone happen to know the quickest, easiest way to go about this?

Googling found this:
 
How to Turn Your Laptop Into a Home Security System
 
Inside of the house put a camera on my parrot which slept all day and another one in the utility room such that I could see if something happened (and nothing ever did after I put the camera in).

What's the make and model of the cameras that you already have? Some have a web server built into their firmware. Others provide their own DDNS service.

There are a few things to check here.  First I would check if your Internet Service Provider even allows it. Most actually don't, although its probably not likely they would complain, because loosing customers is not good for them.  Many prevent servers of all kinds, so what you don't want to do is give out your Internet address so everyone can watch.  If its just YOU watching it, you are likely O.K. Many camera get around this rule by sending your video to a server hosted on the "cloud."  That is the preferred method to do this. 
 
If you are new to this, I would recommend a system like this.  Many cameras support this. Sometimes access to the "server" costs a small fee per month, and sometimes its free. In the end, its easier to go this direction.
 
If you want to login to your camera directly, this can be done, but personally, I wouldn't mind this method.  You have to open your LAN to outside traffic coming in, and your IP address might change so you need something to track that.  All possible, but some extra work as well.

42etus said:

What's the make and model of the cameras that you already have? Some have a web server built into their firmware. Others provide their own DDNS service.

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I've had to wait before I could post - because of being new - sorry for the delay.
 
I have a dahua  IPC-HFW5431E-Z  and some Foscam clones.   None of those matter.  They are IP cameras and they are set up and they do work.  I can contact them from the web.
 
I also have anonymous little black webcams that sit on top of the monitor or the computer - those are the things I'm talking about.
 
Very cheap, from ebay or some chain store.  USB things.
 
you plug them in and windows sees them immediately sometimes - well in7 used to I think - and other times software such as yawcam sees them or they are seen and used by such as Skype.
 

ano said:

There are a few things to check here.  First I would check if your Internet Service Provider even allows it. Most actually don't, although its probably not likely they would complain, because loosing customers is not good for them.  Many prevent servers of all kinds, so what you don't want to do is give out your Internet address so everyone can watch.  If its just YOU watching it, you are likely O.K. Many camera get around this rule by sending your video to a server hosted on the "cloud."  That is the preferred method to do this. 
 
If you are new to this, I would recommend a system like this.  Many cameras support this. Sometimes access to the "server" costs a small fee per month, and sometimes its free. In the end, its easier to go this direction.
 
If you want to login to your camera directly, this can be done, but personally, I wouldn't mind this method.  You have to open your LAN to outside traffic coming in, and your IP address might change so you need something to track that.  All possible, but some extra work as well.

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See what I've said above.  My ISP allows my cameras, has done for years. 
 
I don't want web cloud based methods because I'd rather straight comms between viewer and camera.  But I will use them failing anything else. Team Viewer has a web client I'm told and I could apparently leave a computer at home displaying the webcam on teamviewer and then access from the web via that web client without needed a device with teamviewer installed.
 
That wouldn't be too bad.
 
But nicer would be browse directly to my machine and somehow see the webcam.
 
As I've said I run IIS.  That is there's a web server running continually when my machine is up.  I just need a way to put the webcam feed into the pages that server serves up.
 
Typically an html page serves up images and video  via an image tag for instance: <img src="some rock.jpg" alt=" A View">
 
If I could get the webcam output to a .jpg on a recurring basis,  every five seconds or something,  then perhaps that would work.
 
I don't know. 
 
It is easy and common, I'm sure.  But I'm not having  a lot of luck finding it.  Don't know why.   
 
Now I have to go away for another full day - apparently calculated by the machine according to a count of 24 actual hours....
 

If you were to remotely log into the computer with the web cam you could use any number of programs to access the camera.
 
Mike.

mikefamig said:

If you were to remotely log into the computer with the web cam you could use any number of programs to access the camera.
 
Mike.

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You mean with remote control enabled, or whatever it is?  I've never looked into that. I believe it's a feature of win10, right?
 
So that's a possible but look basically I'm after the same kind of functionality that I get with my IP cameras - i.e. plug the URL into a browser and see the picture.
 
I could let other people do it.  Work of a second.
 
All these video chat rooms working everywhere - they enable comms between webcams, just like Skype and such.  It must be a very well known piece of code, piece of technology...
 
how about the sex industry (must be the biggest industry on the planet)  - or semi sex or whatever - all those thousands of 'live webcams'  of  girls bedrooms trying to enmesh you in some con or other -  they're all employing something sophisticated to stream their webcams?
 
I meant to respond to this but the 'one post' thing beat me....
 

pete_c said:

Googling found this:
 
How to Turn Your Laptop Into a Home Security System
 
Inside of the house put a camera on my parrot which slept all day and another one in the utility room such that I could see if something happened (and nothing ever did after I put the camera in).

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I've checked the link three times and it doesn't show any info on how to turn my laptop into a security system (using the webcam).
 
Not that I see.  Seems to be all about making 'my' laptop secure.
 
Doesn't anyone here view their own webcams remotely? 

Yeah here just googled and never really looked at the links...
 
Found another link...
 
How to use a webcam as CCTV
 
A few years back put my parrot on the internet using a 4.5" Android wireless tablet inside of her cage.
 
Worked fine for a few hours and she didn't eat it.
 
Here have cameras on my desktops and laptops and tablets and have never used them for remote viewing from the internet.

Logging into a pc and running camera software will not allow you to type in a url and see the camera.
 
I recommend that you do a Google search of how to stream a webcam to the internet.  I did and got this:
 
https://www.google.com/search?q=stream+webcamm+to+internet&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
 
Mike.

well i'll supply the answer myself.
 
my question relates to win10 and to IIS, I said that in the question.
 
1.  get webcam software that will write an image to the disk periodically.
    and that runs on your system.  I have Yawcam doesn't work and Tincam doesn't work and Booru doesn't work, for example.
    but Contacam does work.  So don't give  up if something doesn't work - look for something else.
 
    You need it to be configured to overwrite.  that way there's just one image in the directory and it is always the most recent.
 
     Contacam can do this.  It does both - overwrites a 'snapshot' and fills a dir with snapshots taken periodically all day long if you like.
      
 
2.  set up a page in IIS with an <img> tag to display that image.   And code it to be refreshed periodically.   Each refresh will find a new snapshot.  
 
3.  configure your system so's a logged in user has access to that dir .
 
Job's done.

If the webcam(s) are hooked up to a single machine consider using BlueIris.  For a very small investment you will get significant functionality that will do all of the heavy lifting for you.   Easy for internal network access and easy to set up remote access.  Good iOS and Android apps that can be set up for push notifications (at least I know the Android client can, not sure about the iOS client)

I have Blue Iris.  Got it for my IP cams.  I find it doesn't see my webcam.
 
Contacam does a better job.  Sees it immediately.

Is this the sort of thng that you are looking for?
 
https://www.pcworld.com/article/242574/how-to-use-your-pc-webcam-to-monitor-your-home.html

mikefamig said:

Is this the sort of thng that you are looking for?
 
https://www.pcworld.com/article/242574/how-to-use-your-pc-webcam-to-monitor-your-home.html

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Thanks for that but not really.   I mean that's what I've seen.  Been there.  As I say Yawcam doesn't run on my machine.
 
Look at post #10 where I say I've done it.
 
Here it is:
 
101.167.174.244:55559  log in a 'anon' with pswd 'anonanon'  and you should see it.
 
There's no <img> refresh and nothing else either right now.  Proof of concept is all we've got.  But you can refresh your browser and you'll see that the image is changing.  But only every 30 seconds.  You won't see anything quicker than that.