Wifi Baby Monitor

[Guest pizdyetz77]

Hello all,

I've Googled so much time away that I think I would have been better off just getting a part time job and doing enough hours to cover the £100 it costs for a good baby monitor . . . . . . but then I won't have the video streaming onto my M2000 like I want ! ! !

Please read on - someone's bound to have a bright idea. Here's what I need:

1) Wireless enabled laptop with webcam to sit in baby's room and stream data to my M2000

2) To do this without uploading to the internet i.e. M2000 connects ad-hoc to laptop's signal and shows whatever the laptop's webcam is seeing in the room 2.5m away.

Here's what I have:

1) Decent enough laptop running W2k

2) USB wifi pen (it works great)

3) M2000 (with wifi)

Anyone got a great idea???

Cheers,

GH

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Run the webcam software on your laptop, full screen it if possible. Enable remote desktop access.

Run remote desktop client on your PPC, connect to laptop, job done?

P

[Guest chucky.egg]

Sounds good

Have you got a "low light" camera? You might find that all you can see is a black screen.

How about glow-in-the-dark stickers? You could put them on kiddo's head, hands and feet. At least you'd know he hadn't squirmed round in the cot.

Slightly OT... (most of my posts are actually)

There's a Symbian 60 app that uses the mic to detect noise (baby crying etc) and places a call to a predefined number so you can listen in. It even mutes the ringer and rejects incoming calls, so that won't wake the little cherub up.

[Guest pizdyetz77]

Paul - thanks for your sound advice.

chucky.egg - ever considered the dragons' den? There's a fortune to be made in your mind . . . . . .

Anyway, back to ma boy & the need for a baby monitor - My Windows 2000 laptop isn't W2K 'server' so it doesn't have the 'host terminal client' . . . . . or so my uneducated mind thinks. I have tried all over to download a piece of software for my WM2K but can't find anything.

I can connect fine through Resco and browse files on the laptop but remote desktop viewing seems to still be 1000miles away. It seems that I might need either XP or Windows 2000 server before I can do what you suggest.

Are there any good 3rd party apps out there that will do the job?

Cheers again,

GH