OAP webcam help

dobbiesloan

I'm getting old, I can open the fridge door and have no idea why.
What I would like do is, point my webcam  at the table with my meds on it and record if I have taken them or not. It would be on something like a 24hr loop that I could play back. I know my camera can record but I don't what to fill my hard drive.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Don't tell me to get a pill box as I need to test my blood and take insulin and my asthma puffer etc.
Thanks,

baza52

paper and pen will do the job.
Get a pad or calendar and Just write in it when you have taken something. far easier than messing about with a webcam.

nologo

Hi dobbies loan, might be easier just to lay your medication on a backdrop (small dish) & take a photo  on your Phone, if you have android it will record date & time & then take them.  
PS    I know what you mean, happens to me all the time.

Sandtree

There are plenty of applications you can install on your computer that can use your webcam and do what you want; ie it will only save recordings when it detects movement in the field of vision.  In reality they normally are constantly recording and deleting so that when motion is seen they can keep the X seconds before the motion as well.

Won't recommend any particular one as haven't used them personally (but have the same concept of a system with our cloud based security cameras/video door bell)

McKneff

Get an Alexa, get her to remind you. 

grumpycrab

Keep it simple.  Computers very rarely do that. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eono-Amazon-Organiser-Compartments-Morning/dp/B07YYXK99X/

greyteam1959

Ask your doctor/ pharmacy to make up your medication into weekly blister packs.
No need to get complicated.

forgotmyname

100% Agree...

Blister packs there will be no doubt if using those.  Tablet missing... you took it if its still there you forgot.

You can get similar containers and do them yourself but a blister make ensures that you wont forget to

do that also.

Sandtree

forgotmyname said:

100% Agree...

Blister packs there will be no doubt if using those.  Tablet missing... you took it if its still there you forgot.

You can get similar containers and do them yourself but a blister make ensures that you wont forget to

do that also.

The OP has already said that some of their medication is in multi-dose format and so the blister pack type format doesnt work for them. 

I cannot say for the OP but the canister in my asthma inhaler does 200 activations and I take at most 1-2 activations each time. I can't put a canister in each blister pack and with somethings being once a day, some two times a day etc its not always the case that it has to be taken alongside something else.

Insulin similarly normally comes in a cartridge that you use with a pen and can cover a couple of days worth of injections depending on the dosages. so would have a similar problem, especially if its like the Mrs where its to be taken at the time of meals rather than set times.

fenwick458

if you really, really want a camera to keep an eye on you... try an indoor wifi cam, such as nest of eufy (amongst others).
they are £30-40, incredibly simple to set up and review footage if you can operate a smartphone. taking the eufy pan& tilt as an example, it'll record at 1080p for 1.5 days with a 16GB SD card (£10)

bobfredbob

Although pen and paper are easiest, once you have multiple medicines it's too difficult to write the names of medicines each day.  A webcam may be difficult to maintain and to watch hours of video.

Do you know anyone with a computer and access to a printer (whether printing at a library, etc.)?

If they search for "medication list template", then they can get an example excel/word document.  They can then fill in the details of the medicines (going down the page) and across the page are tick boxes for times such as breakfast, afternoon, night.  They print it out.  You then tick them off as you take them.   You could probably get several days of medicine per page.  For the inhaler you'd just tick off the boxes as and when you use it.

That way you can print off several pages, maybe one for each week for the next few weeks.  Maybe even colour-code the medicines on the printout to make it more obvious which ones are AM, mid-day, or just PM; or before food, with food, after food; or optional/mandatory.  Whatever makes sense to you.

If you need help remembering to take at all and you have a modern mobile phone that you keep on you, you may be able to set up recurring calendar entries on your phone.  So, you'd set up a calendar entry "every day at 9am take tablets A and B".  The phone would then pop up a reminder that you have to dismiss or postpone to take at a later time.