How to show live camera feed on a wordpress page?

[unxcellent]

Hello All,

I'm currently doing a website for a friend of mines,
she owns a Children Day Care business. One of the things she wants is to show live feed of the day care/kids in a specific time of the day (something she can control) on the wordpress website.

1. does anyone knows of how can I accomplish this?
2. It's there any plugin out there that can help me with this?
3. I know I have to play around with the network to have it accessible to the outside world, as well as to connect it to my hosting/wordpress site and than show it on a page. What camera should I get for this?


thanks in advance.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

You need some flash or HTML 5 video component. Live feed cameras should come with their own software or you could search for "live feed html 5 video" or something like that.

 

[Wilson Grant Fisk]

You could try these:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/netcam-live-stream/
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/videowhisper-live-streaming-integration/
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=wordpress+webcam+stream

 

[unxcellent]

Thanks all. Sorry for the late response. Reviewing the plugins provided here. I think I may also found a way to do it by just playing around with the network and IPs of the cameras, but still playing with that.

 

[Buzzika]

Thanks all. Sorry for the late response. Reviewing the plugins provided here. I think I may also found a way to do it by just playing around with the network and IPs of the cameras, but still playing with that.

Youtube live 24/7? No? Idk just a brain fart.
Stick them cheap android phones on the wall and let it stream.

Embed the yt link to your wp page.

 

[Thetra]

You will probably need to use a paid service, or build your own not with WordPress. This is not something to do just with a plugin.

You need to solve 2 main problems:
1. Streaming from a web camera to a public server.
2. Viewing live video in WordPress.

For 1, to stream the videos it depends on what device you are using. I guess there are home security cameras that will make this easy for you. There are some products that have mobile apps and probably web interface too. So all you will have to do, is to embed their video player, or use their source if that's is possible. Probably hot linking won't be possible for many reasons, so you can read the stream with nginx-ffmpeg.

Another option is to use Raspberry Pi with a camera, open a port and connect to it directly from the website. This is just a local business I guess, so traffic and loads don't matter much.

For 2, to view the videos you can use nginx-ffmpeg with or without Apache server, to view the videos. There are other solutions with player for live video like JWPlayer, and VideoTag (it can record the video).