StreamingCams: Questions & Answers

A weatherproof camera that puts your view live on YouTube, 24 hours a day, with nothing else involved. No computer, no encoder, no streaming software, no studio. Mount it, plug in one cable, point it at something worth watching, and it streams. You buy it once for £299 and there's no monthly fee.

No — that's the entire point of it. Everything needed to encode and publish a live stream is inside the camera. There's no PC to leave switched on, no OBS to configure, and nothing to keep updated.

Yes, really. You buy the camera once for £299 and it's yours. There's no subscription attached to it and no ongoing charge from us. YouTube is free to stream to, so the running cost is the electricity and the internet you already pay for.

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Through a single network cable. That one cable carries both the power and the internet connection, so the camera doesn't need a socket beside it — which is what makes it practical to put on a wall, a pole or a roof rather than next to a plug.

Yes — the camera streams to your channel, so the stream, the audience and the channel are yours. If you don't have one, creating a YouTube channel is free and takes a few minutes.

Around 2 Mbps of spare upload is enough for a good live stream. Most home fibre and business connections have that available without noticing.

Yes. It's a weatherproof outdoor camera, built to sit on a wall or a pole and be left there through British weather.

Anything with a view worth watching: the coast, a harbour, a high street, a nature reserve, a mountain, a garden, a bird feeder, your own yard. If people would stop and look at it in real life, they'll stop and look at it live.

No. The camera has no microphone at all, so nothing said near it is ever captured. It streams the view, not the conversation.

It's designed for views, not for people. Point it at the scene rather than anywhere individuals are identifiable — and if your camera does take in a public or shared space, signpost it as you would any other camera.

Yes. You can add your camera to Real View, the free TV app people watch live views on at home — Samsung, LG, Fire TV and Android TV. Adding it costs you nothing and watching costs your viewers nothing. It's simply another place your view gets seen.

A free television app that turns a screen into a window onto a real, live place. People leave it on for hours — a live coastline on the wall of a living room. That's a very different kind of attention from a video somebody scrolls past, and your StreamingCam can be part of it at no cost.

No. It's entirely optional, and the camera works perfectly well as a YouTube-only device. Real View is there if you want a second audience — it isn't a condition of buying the camera.

No. StreamingCams is a camera you own that streams to YouTube. The automatic highlight clips, timelapses and AI-drafted social posts are part of Real View's managed camera plans, where we own and run the camera for you. If those matter to you, talk to us about a managed plan instead.

StreamingCams is made by Real View, a British company. The cameras are designed and assembled in Great Britain.