How to setup a poor man’s slingbox

October 1st, 2009 at 12:16 am 2 Comments

One day at work, I had the brilliant idea of pointing my webcam at the TV so I could watch the Rockies games when I wasn’t at home. In essence, the poor man’s Slingbox!


I have the Panasonic BL-C131A webcam. I set it up on top of some games and books and pointed it at the TV. The webcam has a site you can access over the Internet. So, when I log into the webcam’s site, I can check out whatever is on the TV. I have to leave the TV on since I can’t turn it on and off remotely. The quality isn’t exactly HD and you can’t change the channels, hence the poor man’s version. But I already had the webcam, so now it can serve two purposes.

Click here to check out the webcam.

Login: colorado
Password: rockies

I’m going to take it down after the Rockies season is done.

Poor Man's Slingbox

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2 Responses to “How to setup a poor man’s slingbox”

  1. Doug
    May 2nd, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    Hey Shaun, Here’s my attempt at this.. Uses a headless Ubuntu server connected to a TV card:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4M2uVrMrGk
    http://code.google.com/p/mhtvs/


  2. Shaun
    May 2nd, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    @Doug Cool! I like how you can change channels remotely, I couldn’t do that with my ghetto version.


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