Looking for an RTSP Video camera to monitor my pets

ramirez · 13 Aug 2020 at 17:23

Hi,

Any recommendations for a reasonably priced (less than £100) Wifi video camera that will stream RTSP?

Looking for something I can embed a stream into a web page to monitor my daughter's pets. Needs to be something that won't need the end viewer be on the same network. My daughter wants to be able to see her pets when she's not here so I was thinking of a webpage where she can see a stream if she wants to.

Thanks!

Sirrel Squirrel · 14 Aug 2020 at 09:10

I've got a TP Link Tapo camera to check on my dogs, was about £25 and streams to an app. No idea if it is over RTSP though and I probably wouldn't want my camera stream going to a public webpage.

neocon · 14 Aug 2020 at 14:37

Sirrel Squirrel said:
I've got a TP Link Tapo camera to check on my dogs, was about £25 and streams to an app. No idea if it is over RTSP though and I probably wouldn't want my camera stream going to a public webpage.

What's the software like with these? They are priced roughly the same as domestic Chinese cameras. I thought I might get some to monitor my rooms.

Sirrel Squirrel · 14 Aug 2020 at 15:39

neocon said:
What's the software like with these? They are priced roughly the same as domestic Chinese cameras. I thought I might get some to monitor my rooms.

Pretty good I'd say, lets you rotate and tilt the camera, which is responsive. You can take recordings and pictures too whilst watching, which are saved on your phone although if you put an SD card in the camera it can constantly record or when it detects motion automatically.

Only criticism of it really is the onboard speaker and microphone, you're meant to be able to voice call to it if you ever needed to but the onboard speaker is crap. The microphone isn't very good either and it is quite hard to hear what is going on.