HELP: Using an iPhone, webcam, and Apple TV to get through a COVID Christmas?

[SW3029]

So I live overseas and my parents live in the US. This year because of COVID it's just going to be too dangerous to travel back to America for Christmas, which means I won't be able to spend it with my elderly parents.

Given the situation, what I'd like to try to do (if this is even possible) is find a webcam I can buy and ship to them to set up in the corner of their living room on Christmas Eve so I can see them, the Christmas tree, etc. Then, I'd need that webcam to stream its feed over the internet to my iPhone in Germany, where I could AirPlay the stream to my Apple TV.

As far as I can figure out (again, if this is possible) this is the closest thing I can do to recreate the feeling of me being there with them this Christmas, because I could watch them and talk to them, essentially, though my TV, and it would kinda be like I'm in the living room with them.

If this is possible, then I would also buy the same webcam here for my living room and set it up in the corner, so they could see me by accessing the stream through their iPhone and AirPlaying it to their TV connected to their Apple TV in the living room.

The idea is, we could all relax in our living rooms that night and have a constant video feed of each other and watch each other open presents without needing to FaceTime video call on a specific phone you need to hold up and talk with the person.

Anyone know if this is doable and what webcam would allow me to do this?

Just trying to think of everything I can do to make this Christmas suck less for my parents.

Thanks for any help/suggestions.

 

[Paco II]

I'm looking for something similar. Anyone know if the eufy 2k with homekit secure video firmware update installed would make this possible? Can a live stream be airplayed?

 

[Robbosan]

Arlo, has a atv app.

 

[treimche]

Live on the edge. Take that >99% chance you'll all survive!

 

[Paco II]

Live on the edge. Take that >99% chance you'll all survive!

230,000 and counting

 

[cdcastillo]

Live on the edge. Take that >99% chance you'll all survive!

The chances of not ending up in ICU are more around 88%, even if you do not die, it can get really nasty.

So, you'd chance a Russian roulette if it had a 1% chance of killing you?

 

[SW3029]

Live on the edge. Take that >99% chance you'll all survive!

Sadly, if you get COVID, end up in the ICU, and do end up beating the infection and get released "COVID free," your life will never be the same again.

As one ICU doctor, who is a cousin of mine, put it: Yes, we're getting better at keeping many ICU patients alive, but though the mortality is improving, those COVID ICU patients that get released–having "beaten the disease"–will never have a normal life again.

They'll never walk up a flight of stairs again without having extreme breathing difficulty due to the lasting microscopic holes in their lung tissue. Others will have nerve or cardiac issues for the rest of their life. Their post-COVID lives will suffer from a much lower quality of health, and thus a lower quality of life.

So yeah, a 1% chance of living like that for the rest of my life is worth missing a Christmas to keep me, my family, and even total strangers healthy.

 

[cdcastillo]

And since you like to compare it with influenza, and just to put it on perspective: more Texans in El Paso have died from Covid in 8 months than from influenza in 10 years, you irresponsible nimwit.

More El Pasoans have died from COVID-19 than they have from the flu in over a decade

Over 600 El Pasoans have now died of the coronavirus since the city’s first death was reported in April. Doctors are concerned the upcoming flu season could worsen the crisis our healthcare system and hospitals are experiencing. “This year specifically, with the coronavirus pandemic, it is quite...

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[1rottenapple]

The chances of not ending up in ICU are more around 88%, even if you do not die, it can get really nasty.

So, you'd chance a Russian roulette if it had a 1% chance of killing you?

As a public health employee post who downplay the severity and the effects of post covid symptoms even for previously health young adult that last for months really piss me off.

 

[1rottenapple]

Sadly, if you get COVID, end up in the ICU, and do end up beating the infection and get released "COVID free," your life will never be the same again.

As one ICU doctor, who is a cousin of mine, put it: Yes, we're getting better at keeping many ICU patients alive, but though the mortality is improving, those COVID ICU patients that get released–having "beaten the disease"–will never have a normal life again.

They'll never walk up a flight of stairs again without having extreme breathing difficulty due to the lasting microscopic holes in their lung tissue. Others will have nerve or cardiac issues for the rest of their life. Their post-COVID lives will suffer from a much lower quality of health, and thus a lower quality of life.

So yeah, a 1% chance of living like that for the rest of my life is worth missing a Christmas to keep me, my family, and even total strangers healthy.

Exactly. For us essential workers on the front line of health it’s really make me super super mad when people discount it. I’m guessing the poster hadn’t seen people die from it. Or had colleagues who lost their father in law. Or have colleagues husbands end up in the icu for 5 days. Or have had to tell 6 colleagues at different periods of time they have been exposed to a positive person and need to quarantine. Only for 2 of those people to end up getting really sick. I’m lucky now our program shut down and I’m working from home. I’m sure the poster has been lucky so far but with the rate of spread and to ever increasing infection it will only be a matter of time before 240k dead becomes 1 million dead. All because dumb people discount it.

Have you heard of countries in Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, they’re not experiencing big spikes in cases cause people there wise the f-up and don’t debate if the virus is real or not. They are actually living regular lives but protecting themselves and the governments are doing their job protecting people, not casting doubt on public health experts.

Ok rant over. I’m buying the iPhone 12 max yayyyyy. Off to something positive than dealing with overwhelming pandemic where half of the USA doesn’t believe it exist.