CCTV

[Mike Marchywka]

On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 07:15:57PM +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 09:38 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 08:25, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net>
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2021-04-26 at 22:05 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> > > > Motion can do the motion detection and will accept video from
> > > > pretty
> > > > much any camera that you can use with Ubuntu.  I use a PoE camera
> > > > that
> > > > produces rtsp.
> > > 
> > > Thanks that's exactly the sort of information I was hoping to
> > > receive.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > When you say you want to keep recordings for two months exactly
> > > > what
> > > > do you want kept?  The video clips where motion was detected or
> > > > everything?
> > > 
> > > Only clips in which motion is detected.
> > 
> > That is not a problem then. It should be easy to write a cron script
> > which is run daily (for example) to delete the old files.
> 
> OK, I've broken out my spare server motherboard and an old hard drive
> and set it up with Server 20.04, so I can mess with that not my main
> server.
> 
> Plus done a lot of browsing of eBay until I found a weatherproof PoE
> camera that somebody reviewed, mentioning that they could set a fixed
> IP address etc. so I've ordered that one and now keeping the fingers
> crossed that it will work for me.

I'm not entirely sure what all your situation is but I setup
a remote camera using "motion" IIRC for motion detection but
there were a lot of kluges in some cases. IIRC I had to write
scripts to kill the process and start it again for some
simple snapshot requests but it does seem to work.
There may be better motion packages. 

I run the camera on a laptop connected to a cable
modem using email for commands and images. Its been working
pretty well now for months although when the cable has an
issue lack of a backup connection is disconcerting- I guess
a wireless modem would be a nice. 

I'm trying to make a more complete email system but so far
it works ok and provides the images all stroed with
my other email so they can be deleted by date pretty easily.




> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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