Hey there<p>I'm currently working in a distributed team. 1-3 (out of 4) of us are in the office at any one team, and 1-3 of us are working remotely, on any given day.<p>I'd like to put a camera at the end of the desk in the office so that anybody working remotely can get a quick view of who is in and at their desks, and just generally know that there's some life on the other side of Slack.<p>What I'm looking for is some examples of ways other teams have done this, ideally fairly cheaply and DIY. Did you use an iPad? Netbook? Mac mini? Raspberry Pi?<p>Thanks!
<a href="http://danielodio.com/project-stargate-always-on-skype-video-connection-for-remote-offices" rel="nofollow">http://danielodio.com/project-stargate-always-on-skype-video...</a> is the first popular article I can recall about this.<p><a href="http://danielodio.com/remote-always-on-connecting-our-offices-with-sqwiggle" rel="nofollow">http://danielodio.com/remote-always-on-connecting-our-office...</a> is a followup that mentions that the always-on connections would have problems.<p>Perch is a startup that's mentioned a lot in the comments, and I trialled it and it was pretty nice, but it just shut down last month: <a href="https://perch.co/blog/goodbye-perch/" rel="nofollow">https://perch.co/blog/goodbye-perch/</a><p>If you have a couple of Macs to spare, <a href="https://papercutsoftware.github.io/teleportme/" rel="nofollow">https://papercutsoftware.github.io/teleportme/</a> looks interesting, but I haven't tried it myself.