varun

Simon, I've replied to you via email. I brought this up without realizing the school proxy would interfere - now it's my job to make this work. I'm going to ship you an IP camera that works with HomeCamera and has no issues with the proxy (you won't need to mess with NAT etc) and I'm going to do this at our expense. This should do the job for you. My apologies for the inconvenience caused. Warm regards from Singapore, - Varun.

Simon, are you running McAfee firewall on your PC? Or worse, are you behind a corporate firewall that's proxying port 443? (that's the standard https port). BTW, I don't want to turn this into a support thread - could you drop me a note at support@ .com ? Thanks, - Varun.

Steve, this is an interesting project and I hope I'm not too late to help you out. Came across your question quite by chance through Google... I'm the co-founder of a service called HomeCamera. We're free (for now anyway), easy (no NAT etc), and you can use our "Auto-Record" feature to record images and/or video clips every 5 minutes onto our servers. You can share access to your camera (just hit "share" and enter the email addresses of the folks you want to share it with) and - here's a cool one - you can set up motion detection video recording to capture the chick hatching! (no guarantees though... lighting conditions can play havoc with this). What we don't have is streaming video (though it's coming soon). I hope you find the service useful. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help (write to support@ ). EDIT: Forgot to post the site URL (getting old, sorry....): http://www.homecamera.com