Bandwidth and some ideas please

[hargi]

Say I set up a webcam and streamed video to a website, if no one is watching the stream does it still take up my website bandwidth?

My plan is to try to set up a rasberryPi with a webcam attached that will either stream directly to my website so I can view it. Or if thats going to take up loads of bandwidth, make it so the web cam takes a pic every 5 mins or so then uploads it to my site.

Is that do able?

 

[hargi]

OK here's my thoughts. At the moment I have a laptop set up pointing at the room where my dog is while im at work. Im then using log me in to remote to my laptop from work and just view the webcam on there. while this set up does what I want it to do.... I can see my dog when I want. Its not ideal... so the thought of getting a pi and webcam set up and doing something similar.

 

[hargi]

Cheers dude,

Will have a look at that later but yeah that looks like what I am after.
Wouldnt mind keeping a eye out on your project to