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Thread: Can you plug a webcam into it?

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    Default Can you plug a webcam into it?

    I mean you can of course if its USB, but is there someway to get it to work?

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    Nope, but I'm pretty sure it's been requested before in the feature request section. Did you try searching there?
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    I would have to agree with Darci about a USB webcam

    However I'm able to access a couple Panasonic IP Cams (BL-C131) over my local network and they play fine through the BBox's web browser

    I also have a couple more located many miles away which are used at that location/residense as surviellance cams when no one is there - and I access them over the internet

    These cams have a web server built in to them and come with a free web address/URL from Panasonic that works fine in the BBox

    I'm sure most any IP Cam that has a web server built in will work fine - but unlike the Panasonics, some other brands do not offer a free, lifetime URL

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    Interesting. But if they have a webserver built in, can't you just use their ip address?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bixiee View Post
    Interesting. But if they have a webserver built in, can't you just use their ip address?
    Most likely, if the Cam(s) stay in one locatiuon - but since the Cam(s) can be moved around to different locations and still use the same URL - the URL is going through a DNS server provided by Panasonic, which resolves the Cam(s) address where ever they are used - and I have moved a couple of them temporarily to different onsite locations, a few times - so the free URL works for me --- if you keep it/them on the same network all the time, your suggetion would probably be fine, since they can have their LAN IP set as a static address

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