Remote Video Monitoring with Chromebook and Camera

I'm a new user, so perhaps this has been written up before.  I didn't find it.

The Problem:

I needed to monitor my bed-bound wife while in other parts of the house and also when away from home.

The Constraints:

I didn't want a service with its ongoing costs.

The Tools:

• Old Chrome laptop – C100PA – but almost any old Chrome or Windows (maybe Apple too) laptop would probably work
• Foscam Z2 1080P Video Camera – with the accompanying software –  $95 in 2019 (Wyze has less expensive cameras, but I had some trouble with their software in 2019)

The Result:

• The laptop now sits in the kitchen and displays the image of my wife in her bed.  I could have motion detection and two-way conversation, but I don't use them.
• I can see the image both on the laptop and on my smartphone.

The Problems:

I have to restart the laptop's Foscam software about every two days to a week because it loses the connection.  I've been unable to diagnose why.  Once in a while I've had to unplug and then replug the power to the camera to get it to reconnect.

Other than that it works very well.