Remote Webcam with Android Phone

**abhiroopb** · November 14th, 2009

I have a logitech webcam (which works flawlessly with skype, etc.) on my ubuntu PC and I was wondering if there are any apps that allow me to view the camera feed on my Android phone.

Thanks

**Jon Monreal** · November 17th, 2009

You could possibly try android-vnc-viewer in connection with VNC in Ubuntu, but you would have to have a window open with the webam's display and I imagine the framerates would be awful to the point that the entire ordeal might be completely infeasible.

**abhiroopb** · November 17th, 2009

I'm really confused

**Jon Monreal** · November 17th, 2009

Originally Posted by abhiroopb

I'm really confused

Confused? Could you specify what you're confused about?

The suggestion is simple: have a program such as Cheese open on your Ubuntu desktop, and use android-vnc to view the desktop remotely so that you can see what Cheese is displaying. Whether or not this will work (or work well) is a completely different question.

**ergosteur** · June 11th, 2010

Alternatively, you could install motion (in repos, apt-get install motion) which is a daemon that runs a little web server with a live feed from your webcam. It also has the option to save frames or video when motion is detected (hence the name, "motion"). I actually had it running with a Logitech usb cam on an old NSLU2 and it worked quite well.

**ubudog** · June 11th, 2010

Originally Posted by ergosteur

Alternatively, you could install motion (in repos, apt-get install motion) which is a daemon that runs a little web server with a live feed from your webcam. It also has the option to save frames or video when motion is detected (hence the name, "motion"). I actually had it running with a Logitech usb cam on an old NSLU2 and it worked quite well.

Sounds like the best option.

**no2498** · June 11th, 2010

motion does run all the time in the back ground
just a heads up for you

**Tahakki** · June 11th, 2010

Which app would one use to access motion?

**Jon Monreal** · June 13th, 2010

It's a live feed, so you'll need to access http://[YOURIP]:8081 from your Android. Beware of dynamic IP addresses that some broadband providers use (your IP might change over time).

You can test to make sure you have it working right by navigating to http://localhost:8081 on a browser on the machine (if you haven't started motion yet, you'll need to do so by going to a terminal, typing "sudo motion" minus the quotes, and pressing enter).