Can I use a webcam connected to iPad as a video monitor?

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Is it possible to buy an external webcam with night vision to attach to the crib and use as a video monitor, viewing it on my iPad? I can't find the definitive answer to this question anywhere, but I can't think why no–one would have thought of this before?! Has anyone else done this? What webcam did you buy?

Thanks in advance for the recommendations!

Yes you can! We used a Foscam IP cam one a few years back, but it needs to be set up properly so it can't be accessed from outside your home network as there were hacking issues a while back (mostly related to people using the default password). They're not easy to set up unless you know a small amount about networking though.

However I'm pretty sure there are other, simpler ones around now. Like this one that costs the earth, but does what you want! www.withings.com/en/babymonitor

u can buy monitors which connect to mobiles/tablets/laptops so u can check baby anywhere. mines is a motorola blink it has night vision u can play lullabies and talk to baby through it

Brilliant! Those are great suggestions, I especially like the Motorola blink, I've just seen it on the Tesco website for £64.50 which sounds a really good deal. Have you found it to be good tgamble ?

i have it all set up and connected to different devices and weve tested it out seems to be a grand job. baby isnt here yet for another two weeks only thing i worry bout is incase the broadband goes down but we do have ordinary baby monitors for such a case