Photo stream all go to iphoto not other ios

Hello,
We have a few iDevices in our family, tied to a single Apple ID/iCloud account, and also an iMac at home. What I would like to be able to do is have all the photos taken with any of our iDevices 'flow' via the Photo Stream to iPhoto on our Mac. However, I don't really need/want to have those same pic's copied to our other iOS devices. It makes for a neat demo trick, but we simply don't have the free space on them to hold duplicate photos. So, metaphotically speaking, we'd like have the iOS Photo 'Streams' meet at the iMac iPhoto River at home.
Seems like simple concept, but I haven't been able to see exactly to do this. All the FAQ's continue to tout the photo copies flowing to 'all my devices'.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi Chris,
If you have iCloud signed on on your Mac, and Photo Stream turned on, then the Photo Stream will be in iPhoto under the Web section. If in iPhoto go to Preferences>Photo Stream, and click on the "Automatic Import" option, it will automatically import your monthly photo stream into your iPhoto library.
You must have Photo Stream turned on on all of your devices to make this happen, however. But having the Photo Stream on the device does not take up any room. The photos are housed in iCloud, so having them in both your Camera Roll and Photo Stream is not taking up more room.
Cheers,
GB

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