Surveillance Camera

[steve]

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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)

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Steve Reilly

http://reillyblog.com
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