<div dir="ltr">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. <div>
<br></div><div style>As I always seem to be on a tight budget as of late I also looked into "free" solutions. Zone Minder is a Linux <span style="color:rgb(47,47,47);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px">"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.</span></div>
<div style><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px"><br></span></div><div style><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px">NewEgg always seems to have great deals on PTZ cams on their daily deals & shell shockers.</span></div>
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</span></div><div style><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:19 PM, gmail <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tje210@gmail.com" target="_blank">tje210@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 17, 2013 9:12 PM, "Mike Schoenborn" <<a href="mailto:rtfm@columbus.rr.com" target="_blank">rtfm@columbus.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:39:51 -0400<br>
Tom Hanlon <<a href="mailto:tom@functionalmedia.com" target="_blank">tom@functionalmedia.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> my wish list is.<br>
> Video intercom, well two way voice one way video. From one house to<br>
> the other, about 100 yards apart.<br>
><br>
> Surveillance.<br>
> Motion detection, image capture, email alert, image upload.<br>
><br>
> Bonus features.<br>
> Remote pan.<br>
<br>
Check your repository for the program "motion":<br>
<br>
Description: V4L capture program supporting motion detection<br>
Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from<br>
one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant<br>
part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can<br>
detect motion.<br>
<br>
Motion is a command line based tool. It has no graphical<br>
user interface. Everything is setup either via the<br>
command line or via configuration files.<br>
<br>
The output from motion can be:<br>
- jpg files<br>
- ppm format files<br>
- mpeg video sequences<br>
<br>
Also, motion has its own minimalistic web server. Thus,<br>
you can access the webcam output from motion via a browser.<br>
<br>
Homepage: <a href="http://motion.sf.net" target="_blank">http://motion.sf.net</a><br>
<br>
I have used this program only for its timelapse features, but did<br>
experiment a bit with its detection features and found them quite<br>
capable. This should cover #2 on your wish list.<br>
<br>
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