Trying to Monitor My House

I am trying to use FaceTime (or some other app if there's one available) so I can monitor my dog without being physically present in the room. I envision setting up my MacBook Air in the living room and calling "myself" on FaceTime so that I can watch what he's doing from outside the house. Problem is, when I try to FaceTime with myself from either device, the connection fails. I've never used FaceTime on either device before. Is it capable of connecting my MacBook Air to my iPhone, even though I have one user ID?

Johnathan Burger, yes the psoter said he tried. The poster is using the Mac as a wifi hotspot and wants the Mac to control the times that other devices can connect to the wifi hotspot. Parental controls does not included that feature..

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