Webcam for hotel

Open laptop, turn on webcam? Lol that's what I've done when I've wanted to spy.

Call your phone on facetime/skype from the laptop, and then check periodically. I don't know how easy it would be to accidentally hang up (or drain battery), though, and then you couldn't remedy that, unless you teach Jackson how to answer phone calls.

A Drop Cam connected to hotel wifi would work. Free app on your phone, and you can check in from time to time. Drop Cams are inexpensive and amazing quality - I have one I use in our house to spy on the dogs.

I set up my laptop with Skype and call in from my phone. It's free and you can set it up to accept calls only from "friends" so it will pick up automatically, but random people can't call in.

I didn't know this and it's a super useful bit of info! That's basically what we did with facetime, but had to manually answer our own call before leaving and try really hard not to accidentally turn it off.

I set up my laptop with Skype and call in from my phone. It's free and you can set it up to accept calls only from "friends" so it will pick up automatically, but random people can't call in.

All you need is a webcam on the computer, doesn't matter if it's fancy or anything. And you need a phone that can run the Skype app.

I learned that trick when I wanted to set up a camera to spy on Watson and I didn't want to spend any money. So now he has a Skype account and only his friends can call in, which I think is just me and my mom. Super useful! Skype must have added this feature just for this reason - I can't think of any other reason you would want Skype to answer automatically.

Can I just say that I nearly selected this as a "sporn post" that had gotten through the filters :rofl1:

I've used Presence. It's an app that you download to two apple products (they may have the app for other devices too, I don't know) and then you leave one device running (I leave my iPad and plug it in so it doesn't die) and then I can check in from my phone. I did this when I had a foster dog and her 4 week old puppies and I had to go to work. Then I used it on my own dogs but they were so boring and were always flat out asleep when I'd check in.

ETA: It also apparent,y has a motion sensor function you can set it to so it alerts you and turns on if it detects motion. I've never tried it, but they recommend it for home security using this function, which I thought was kind of neat.