How to View your Webcam on your iTouch or iPhone

In this tutorial, we’ll be showing you how to watch a live feed from your webcam on your iPhone or iPod touch from anywhere in the world. Setup is pretty simple, basically just download and install a windows program and the necessary app and you’re ready to stream live.

What You’ll Need:

  1. WebcamXP Pro
  2. iPod touch or iPhone
  3. An app called “I-C-Livecams“

How to Setup your Streaming Webcam:

  • The first thing you should do is download “i-c-livecams” from the app store and install WebcamXP Pro on your computer. Of course, be sure your webcam is plugged in and you see your webcam’s live feed on webcamXP.
  • Click the web/broadcast tab on WebcamXP to show you your IP address and the port that it’s using.

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Setting it up:

  1. On your iTouch/iPhone start up i-c-livecams.
  2. In the private icons section select your iPod or iPhone’s name. (Ex: my ipods name is “Matt’s ipod”)

  3. Choose “Add a new WebcamXP Camera”
  4. Fill in your IP address and your port with the correct information from the web/broadcast tab on WebcamXP. You can name your camera anything you want, if you set a username and password on Webcam XP then also fill in the correct information.For example: Name: Living Room Host or IP address: 0.0.0.0Â port: 80 Camera #: 1

If all of the information you provided on i-c-livecams was correct you should now be online and watching the live feed on your ipod or iphone.


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Comment:
 
Patric

April 25th, 2009

Great tutorial

Thanks

Tony Karakashian

April 27th, 2009

Another option is to use Orb. It allows you to view media remotely, including streaming from a TV tuner and supports USB webcams.

Tom

May 2nd, 2009

Very straightforward tutorial. It went very well up until the end.

I get a “can’t find host” error on my iPod. I have a home network and used ipconfig to get my IP address but … “can’t find host”. Any thoughts?

Matt

May 3rd, 2009

Hello Tom

One option is to open a port on your router… I have a DI-524 and what I do to open a port is I…

● go to mozilla firefox or internet explorer and type in “http://(default gateway address)

to find that you go to RUN and type in CMD, then “ipconfig”, there you will find your ip address, Subnet mask , and default gateway…

● it will then ask you for a user name and password.

My username on the di-524 is admin and there is no password. you can find your username and password on the internet, just search for a list of usernames and passwords.

● then is you have a d-link go to “wireless” menu, and click advanced.

Name: anything you want
Private IP: your ip address
Protocol Type: TCP
Private Port: anything
Public Port: the port you want to access it with Ex. 80

Schedule: always

Then set the port on webcam xp to the one you added ex. 80, and set the port on yout ipod to the same…

Hope it works out

-Matt

dave stevens

June 11th, 2009

amazing app i have tried about 20 and none worked but this is great i use it to keep an eye on my pet do u know why the the back,edit,or refresh button doesnt work though im usung a edimax cam 1510? but i love this app cant wait for add on’s like taking snaps and video.

Jodene

July 11th, 2009

I am having an issue with this. I put in my ip address and the video just keeps saying loading video. Any idea?

markm75

August 27th, 2009

I tried this app on 3.01 firmware.. it just says “loading video” as well.. nothing comes up, maybe not for 3.0 yet?

erol

October 19th, 2009

hi. I have 3Gs 32 Gb 3.1.2.
Webcamxp works fine form me.
With http://www.dyndns.org create an account. For free. Put in your router de dns account. That’s neccesary for watching your cam outsite.
exp. http://username.dyndns.org
Choose your port.
Email me if you want more explanation.