Originally Posted by Jimmie76

We have a couple of elderly relatives who we would like to install a camera for. It needs to work ideally streaming to a browser via wifi but specifically not the net so options with a cloud account won't work. So I can just install a bookmark on their browser to that IP address (probably on android although would prefer no apps to keep things simple) and up pops a video stream. What I planned to do was buy a camera from a reputable manufacturer and connect that to a router which the spare tablet they have can be used to watch on. Doesn't have to be an outdoor model but tilt and pan would be nice (although not essential). They are paranoid about the web spying on them and also the broadband at their house (in the middle of nowhere) was so unreliable that they don't bother with that anymore.

Basically it will be used for watching the garden and also to know who is at the door before deciding whether to bother to answer it. Does anyone have any unconnected [to the net] solutions? My last experience with these things was back in the dark ages and things have moved on a bit since then - Are Foscam any good for this?