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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Thinking of WAN-only sharing, and practical ideas, I don't know why someone hasn't built a baby monitor for the tablets yet. They can already stream audio/video to a specific IP address using the built-in GStreamer framework, I'm amazed someone hasn't thrown a python GUI on that functionality ("Please enter the IP address of the receiving tablet" with the first 3 numbers filled in, because it's a good assumption that you're going to be on the same network, and "Please enter the IP address of the monitoring tablet" on the other one)... Then you just leave the transmitting N800 face down with the camera and mic pointing out into the room, and walk away. If the connection between tablets is broken for a certain period of time, the transmitter keeps trying to re-establish the link, and after 1 minute the receiver starts flashing and beeping that there's something wrong.
That is a good idea. In theory, you can do this now with two tablets and two GTalk or Gizmo accounts. I don't know if there is a call limit in place for either service, and re-establishing connection would be an issue. Hmmmm..... Is it possible to initiate a call on a remote tablet via ssh? If there is a way, then you could leave one tablet in the baby's room, and never have to touch it. Have the volume turned to mute, and initiate the SIP call with video from the tablet you use as the monitor... just some thoughts from someone not that fluent with this stuff
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