CCTV

[Drew Einhorn]

You may find this relevant depending on exactly what you are doing.
And, it's very entertaining.

https://hackaday.com/2012/03/20/birdwatching-meets-a-computer-controlled-water-cannon-awesomeness-ensues/

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 3:07 PM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 21:41, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have an interest in setting up CCTV motion detection recording on my
> > home server. I have a spare, identical mainboard and hard drives that I
> > can experiment with.
> >
> > The simpler the better, I've been having a look at motion. I'd really
> > like it to work like my car dashcams, keeping recordings for, say, two
> > months before deleting them.
> >
> > Can anybody already using CCTV please advise if motion does what I
> > would like, and what cameras they use please? An Ethernet cable
> > connected camera would be good as I can place it on the outside of the
> > wall where the server is located.
>
> 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.
> 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?
>
> Colin
>
> >
> > Thanks for all advice.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
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