Watching your camera over the Internet
What if you'd like to monitor your headquarters from afar or invite a fellow agent to keep an eye out for trouble while you're away on a mission? You could try to make the Pi accessible directly over the Internet, but it's much more convenient to let a stream broadcasting service pick up the Pi camera feed and make it available to any number of viewers.
There are a few different stream broadcasting services to choose from and we'll be looking at one called Ustream, but the method described below should be applicable to other companies as well.
Follow this procedure to get started with Ustream:
- Visit http://www.ustream.tv and Sign up for a new account.
- After verifying your e-mail address and signing in, click on Go live! You're signing up for the free Basic broadcasting service which is fine for our purposes.
- Pick a good name for your channel. This name will be used to create a URL for your camera feed so keep it something short...
