Less Glitch. More Wag.

Because watching a pixelated pug isn’t nearly as cute as the real thing. SmartPull Streaming keeps your streams smooth and tail-waggingly good.

Our new SmartPull Streaming feature only pulls video from your webcams when someone is actually watching. That means if you’ve got multiple cameras—like in a pet resort, kennel, or any high-traffic setup—you’re no longer wasting bandwidth streaming video when no one is viewing. SmartPull Streaming is FREE for all Brownrice webcam hosting plans.

No viewers? No stream. It’s that simple.
As soon as someone presses play, SmartPull kicks in, starts the feed, and keeps it going for 10 extra minutes after the last viewer leaves—just in case more eyeballs show up.

Cutting down bandwidth? Just another day at the dog park for SmartPull.
Less network congestion, faster internet speeds, and a better experience for everyone—with fewer clicks than a cat walking across your keyboard.

Think of it as one more treat in your tech toy box.
See what else Brownrice webcam hosting offers ›

You can enable SmartPull Streaming right now in your Dashboard:
Once logged in, click Webcams -> Select Your Stream -> Camera Settings and toggle SmartPull Streaming ON. That’s it!

Heads up! SmartPull Streaming can’t run alongside Recordings or Timelapses. If you enable SmartPull, those features will be automatically disabled.

Want the nerdy details?
Read the SmartPull Streaming FAQ ›

Still need help enabling it? Contact us—we’re happy to assist!

Thanks for streaming with Brownrice—your bandwidth (and viewers) will thank you.

Missed a moment? No problem, our new Live Rewind service (NVR)lets your viewers go back and watch it again. It’s like having a time machine for live streams!

You can enable Live Rewind for your webcam in our Dashboard right now.  Once logged in click Webcams -> Manage -> Player Settings -> toggle Live Rewind ON.

Live Rewind is a FREE service for all cameras on our 2TB plan or higher. 

Also, if your camera is on a 1TB plan you can enable Live Rewind now and trial it FREE through the end of the month!

We’ve been busy building a slew of new features into our webcam hosting service so be sure to keep an eye out for these release announcement emails to see what your new options are.

Need a feature badly?  Reply this email and let us know.  We program all of our own stuff, so if enough people ask for it we might just build it!

Thank you for your Webcam Hosting business!

We’re awfully pleased to announce that we’ve rolled out a slew of upgrades to our Timelapse video service!

The Upgrades:

It used to be that when you wanted to have a logo added to the top of your webcam player you’d need to upload that logo to your website then use our dashboard to create a image source link back to the image on your website.  And what we found is that you practically needed a four year coding degree to figure out how to get all of that done.  No fun for you and no fun for us having to do it for you!

Here is a short list of a few outdoor web cameras that we recommend.   However, nearly *any* IP camera will work with our servers, so feel free to bring us your own and let us know what it is and we’ll get it to work!

The price differences generally have to do with 1) the level of optical zoom of the camera 2) the level of weather proofing and 3) the type of mount.

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