Surveillance Camera

[steve]

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steve wrote:
> debian wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 16:19 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a decent surveillance camera that will work with Linux.
>>> I've found a few, some that even run on Linux but the administration
>>> software is Windows only!!!
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Keith
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I would trust logitech..however i use the webcam that comes with my
>> laptop (chicony electronics? its the one that lsusb told me..lspci didnt
>> say anything about my webcam)
> 
>> For survalence, i use motion, which will take set up a basic localhost
>> webserver which will display the images that are being captured from
>> your webcam. When you first start motion, it will take a picture, then
>> continue taking pictures, comparing it to the one it took first. If
>> there is a difference, it will update the picture if you get what i
>> mean.
> 
>> Basically, if someone tries to break in, the program will see that,
>> update the webpage that it is hosting so that you can show the cops when
>> they come just what the criminal looked like basically. 
> 
>> Motion stores the pictures in /tmp/motion
> 
>> hth
> 
>> --cj
> 
> 
> just using a few logitech webcams here, but this zoneminder link shows
> quite a few security cams working on linux (and zoneminder)
> 
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=10

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Steve Reilly

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