Home video capturing and monitoring system

A monitoring device, comprising:

• an application executable by the monitoring device, the application being configured to, when executed by the monitoring device:
• receive from a video camera via a remote server at least a portion of video data captured by the video camera;
• display on the monitoring device the received video data captured by the video camera;
• capture one or more audio messages via a microphone of the monitoring device;
• and
• while displaying the received video data, send the one or more captured audio messages to the video camera via the remote server for playback by a speaker of the video camera, thereby enabling a real-time conversation between a user viewing the video data displayed by the application and a person in a field of view of the video camera;
• wherein the video camera includes a camera, a communications component and a speaker, and is configured to:
• capture by the camera the video data within the field of view;
• communicate, via the remote server, the video data captured by the camera to the monitoring device;
• and
• output by the speaker the one or more audio messages from the person in the field of view of the camera, the one or more audio messages being captured by the microphone of the monitoring device and received by the communications component via the remote server;
• and
• wherein the remote server is located remotely from the video camera and the monitoring device and is configured to:
• receive from the video camera the video data captured by the video camera and streamed to the remote server via the communications component of the video camera;
• relay the received video data to the monitoring device;
• receive the one or more audio messages from the monitoring device concurrently with receiving from the video camera the video data captured by the video camera;
• and
• relay the received one or more audio messages to the video camera for output by the video camera concurrently with receiving from the video camera the video data captured by the video camera.

A server, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• memory storing one or more programs for execution by the processor, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
• receiving from a video camera video data captured by the video camera and streamed to the server via a communications component of the video camera;
• relaying the received video data to a monitoring device, wherein the server is located remotely from the video camera and the monitoring device;
• receiving one or more audio messages from the monitoring device concurrently with receiving from the video camera the video data captured by the video camera;
• and
• relaying the received one or more audio messages to the video camera for output by the video camera concurrently with receiving from the video camera the video data captured by the video camera;
• wherein the video camera includes a camera, a communications component and a speaker, and is configured to:
• capture by the camera the video data within a field of view;
• communicate, via the server, the video data captured by the camera to the monitoring device;
• and
• output by the speaker the one or more audio messages from a person in the field of view of the camera, the one or more audio messages being captured by a microphone of the monitoring device and received by the communications component via the server;
• and
• wherein an application is executable by the monitoring device, and is configured to, when executed by the monitoring device:
• receive from the video camera via the server at least a portion of the video data captured by the camera;
• display on the monitoring device the received video data captured by the camera;
• capture the one or more audio messages via the microphone of the monitoring device;
• and
• while displaying the received video data, send the one or more captured audio messages to the video camera via the server for playback by the speaker of the video camera, thereby enabling a real-time conversation between a user viewing the video data displayed by the application and the person in the field of view of the camera.