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Can you make my IP cameras work with Alexa Show 8

happyhero
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Can anybody come up with a way for me to add my IP cameras so I can see them on my Echo Show 8? I bought these IP cameras https://www.amazon.co.uk/CPVA.../dp/B089LRPW55/ref=sr_1_2...
It says on the Q&As that it cant be done but that's just customers asking, and I've asked the company who makes them, CPVan but they said a quick no to my long question I sent them.
I know the Shows are not tablets and you can't add apps but my thinking is I can see the camera views on my Samsung phone and on my PC by downloading several different bits of software for these devices so is there not some way with the Show, i.e. skills?
I enabled the skills related to this camera CPVan but it asks me to login with no way of registering for the CPVan site so I can never login as the skill asks me to do, I tried at length to register on the CPVan site on the PC not even sure this would work anyway.
Maybe there's another skill I can enable that would see these cameras, preferably one that doesn't need a login if possible, any ideas?
Any help appreciated.
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