Build Your Free Home Camera Surveillance System By Skype

As you know, building your own home surveillance costs a big budget and is definitely complex to deal with. Professional security monitor solutions are always there for your home and business surveillance. However, you may be curious about what is taking place at the right moment around what you care, such as a baby, a pet and monitor them on your own. Or you are just worry about the inclusion and thief problems in your house, and additionally, who's cat slips in your garden every day. These can all realized for free by VoIP.



In this post, I will show you how to make use of Skype though VoIP to build a free home surveillance system. Of course, you can choose other alternatives rather than Skype, any video talk connection is OK. Depend on your habits.



Step1: Determine the place you would like to monitor According to your aimed locations, your PC should be placed where the best angle and clearly to access the area. A laptop would be a great choice here. Then install your IP camera software to enter the user interface to make sure the video you see. The laptop should connect directly to the power to avoid power shortage supplied by its own battery.



Step2:Install Skype on your laptop and create two diffident ID. Login into the two accounts separately on the two different laptops and make sure the two accounts are connected to each other successfully. Now everything is ready if all of these done.



Step3. Configure the Skype app on your home laptop to automatically answer calls and to shoot up the web cam on any incoming call. You can do that by going to Preferences > Calls and checking the Auto-answer calls option. Also make sure that he option Start video automatically at the beginning of a call is checked.



Step4. Now the system is successfully built with the laptop and two Skype working. Make sure your local internet connection is available during the programme .



Whenever you would like to view what is happening in the aimed area, just use the Skype to call another on your other laptop. And you will monitor successfully though the web cam of laptop when the video calling is connected.