CCTV

[David Fletcher]

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.

Dave