[colug-432] security camera, surveillance software, open source, DIY

[FiL Farris]

A short while back I  looked into different solutions for watching inside
my house & the main doors while I was away.  I was surprised  how much
cameras & surveillance equipment had dropped in price while adding new
functionality.  The camera's I looked into were not the best by any means
but I thought a wireless PTZ (pan - tilt - zoom) camera with night vision &
2 way audio that can be controlled from anywhere (via phone or PC) for
around 100.00 was a good deal.  Complete multi camera systems (with linux
based DVR's) starting at 200 were not bad either.

As I always seem to be on a tight budget as of late I also looked into
"free" solutions.  Zone Minder is a Linux "free video camera security
application suite, designed for low cost DIY video security including
commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child or family member
monitoring"  that works with a lot of web cams I had lying around.  Zone
minder is the only one I can think of the top of my head but I know there
are others I looked at/tried.  Vitamin D was free (for up to X amount of
cameras)  and had pretty decent features but I believe was Windows only at
the time.

NewEgg always seems to have great deals on PTZ cams on their daily deals &
shell shockers.

FiL






On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:19 PM, gmail <tje210 at gmail.com> wrote:

> to talk about the off-site backup only... I use the ftp client on my cheap
> network camera to upload to the dropbox folder on my computer, which is
> then automatically and almost instantly synced.  I have 10M down, .75 up,
> and it's done quickly.  faster internet wouldn't really help much.  pics
> are a few KB at 640x480
> On Jun 17, 2013 9:12 PM, "Mike Schoenborn" <rtfm at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:39:51 -0400
>> Tom Hanlon <tom at functionalmedia.com> wrote:
>>
>> > my wish list is.
>> > Video intercom, well two way voice one way video. From one house to
>> > the other, about 100 yards apart.
>> >
>> > Surveillance.
>> > Motion detection, image capture, email alert, image upload.
>> >
>> > Bonus features.
>> > Remote pan.
>>
>> Check your repository for the program "motion":
>>
>>  Description: V4L capture program supporting motion detection
>>  Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from
>>  one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant
>>  part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can
>>  detect motion.
>>
>>  Motion is a command line based tool. It has no graphical
>>  user interface. Everything is setup either via the
>>  command line or via configuration files.
>>
>>  The output from motion can be:
>>     - jpg files
>>     - ppm format files
>>     - mpeg video sequences
>>
>>  Also, motion has its own minimalistic web server. Thus,
>>  you can access the webcam output from motion via a browser.
>>
>>  Homepage: http://motion.sf.net
>>
>> I have used this program only for its timelapse features, but did
>> experiment a bit with its detection features and found them quite
>> capable. This should cover #2 on your wish list.
>>
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