wkearney99
Senior Member
It's the age-old problem of what's the 'least tedious' way to easily bring up security camera video on TVs in the house?
I've had a Swann DVR8-3000 for a few years and it's serviceable. It does the job with it's analog cameras. I've used an Android app 'IP Cam Viewer Pro' but it's an ugly app. It's WAF rates pretty low. Searching here a moment ago, someone mentioned "TinyCam" and I'm going to take a look.
But I'm wondering, with all the ways you can push media to a TV (or remote control the streaming device on it) I'm thinking why not use one of those for pulling up the camera feed?
I'm not talking about doing a screencast from a tablet/phone device, yes, that would work. I'm thinking more like having my Amazon Echo be able to do something like "Alexa, tell security to show front porch camera on family room TV". Not dig around for a tablet or a remote and tap through a ton of stuff. I realize this isn't going to happen without something on-site that handles knitting the resources together. Homeseer, CQC or some other kind of automation framework.
At some point it's going to require the ability for this on-site box to actually be able to call upon the local Chromecast (or other display endpoint device) to start pulling the content. Current the TVs and AVRs have IP control, so switching them around wouldn't be overly complicated. I tend to avoid the on-TV 'smart apps' because they're usually terrible and tedious to use (and often impossible to automate remotely). Using a streamer like a Chromecast is an inexpensive alternative without requiring a lot of half-assing it with a remote control.
Anyway, has anyone run across anything like this?
I've had a Swann DVR8-3000 for a few years and it's serviceable. It does the job with it's analog cameras. I've used an Android app 'IP Cam Viewer Pro' but it's an ugly app. It's WAF rates pretty low. Searching here a moment ago, someone mentioned "TinyCam" and I'm going to take a look.
But I'm wondering, with all the ways you can push media to a TV (or remote control the streaming device on it) I'm thinking why not use one of those for pulling up the camera feed?
I'm not talking about doing a screencast from a tablet/phone device, yes, that would work. I'm thinking more like having my Amazon Echo be able to do something like "Alexa, tell security to show front porch camera on family room TV". Not dig around for a tablet or a remote and tap through a ton of stuff. I realize this isn't going to happen without something on-site that handles knitting the resources together. Homeseer, CQC or some other kind of automation framework.
At some point it's going to require the ability for this on-site box to actually be able to call upon the local Chromecast (or other display endpoint device) to start pulling the content. Current the TVs and AVRs have IP control, so switching them around wouldn't be overly complicated. I tend to avoid the on-TV 'smart apps' because they're usually terrible and tedious to use (and often impossible to automate remotely). Using a streamer like a Chromecast is an inexpensive alternative without requiring a lot of half-assing it with a remote control.
Anyway, has anyone run across anything like this?