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RE: a/v monitoring sick room
My first thoughts are to try a simple method using something like skype [or an open source alternative], I'm pretty sure those can be set up to automatically answer calls from certain users and block other users by default. That should be good enough, but if you're really worried about security and/or redundancy, some services may let you set up and use your own server, and you can block access to that using your firewalls.
You could go for streaming video with access control, but unless you've got a hundred or so patients to look after, the skype-y option seems simpler to me.
EDIT: just wanted to point out that by "set up your own server" I mean run a lil daemon on one of your computers- not dedicate one computer to the job. Just everything would be done in your house, no internet access required.
This post was edited on 05-23-2007 at 02:59 PM by Verte.
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
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