> > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 07:36, Ueli Meier wrote: > >Hi > >Is there anyone who set up a home surveillance system wit Linux? > >Im thinking of using a normal web-cam and a Laptop computer. > >What are the requirements? > >Is there any software that can start record automatically when there is > >some Movement, and pause when movement stops? > >Purpose to keep an eye on the fruit trees. > > > >Ueli > > By the use of heyu and xtend, the latter a monitoring daemon for x10 > traffic, you can do whatever you would need. Xtend is scriptable. I > use those, a cm-11 computer interface from the shack (needs a spare > serial port) and the eagleeye/hawkeye PIR motion detectors from X10, I > have the lights on the front of the house controlled. I change the mode > 3 times a day with some crontab entrys. > > I think the biggest problem might be the laptop, it will need lots of > spare hd capacity in order to record a whole days activity. The other > problem might be the camera. I have one I was going to use, but gave > up on it when the video turned out to be so crappy, color balance seems > to be all greenish yellow & not correctable. An $80 dollar USB camera, > only does about 7 frames/second & I wasn't going to put any more money > into it. I'd also put another $80 into USB extension cables when I > found the camera was a POS. So camera-wise, the old adage about YMMV > certaily applies.
I like the idea of the motion program. I could not find heyu anywhere. However I don't have a web-cam yet. Is there somewhere a list of web-cams that are compatible with linux? I have a Pentium 650mhz with 128mb ram and about 2gigs of free space. Could it run motion? Thanks Ueli > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) There is no need for that, I just want to invite my neighbors for a short movie and I guess then the stealing stops. > 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly > Free OpenDocument reader/writer/converter download: > http://www.openoffice.org > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above > message by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > > ______________________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
