Accessing your security camera from anywhere

Inside the last section of this chapter, we are going to revisit a project we built in the last chapter: the wireless security camera. Here, we are going to learn how to visualize the live video stream coming from a camera from anywhere in the world.

Assembling this project is really simple; you simply need to plug the USB camera to the Raspberry Pi using the USB hub as you also need to plug the Wi-Fi dongle. This is the final result:

Now, we are again going to use the MJPEG-streamer software to create a live video stream from the camera. If you haven't installed it yet, you can check the last chapter of the book to learn how to install it.

Then, go inside the folder where the software is installed, and type:

./mjpg_streamer -i "./input_uvc.so" -o "./output_http.so -w ./www"

This will immediately start the streaming software on your Raspberry Pi:

Now, I want you to open another terminal window or tab, as we will need to run...