Comments on: Home Video Surveillance System Utilizing Webcams

By: videofairy

videofairy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:15 +0000

To make a proper home video surveillance system I would advice to check the field of view of a camera using calculators like http://www.jvsg.com/online/

Also it make sense to check required storage space. Video archive of just one camera at 10 frames per second can easily overcome 40 GByte per day in case of constant recording.

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By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:35:02 +0000

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By: meh

meh — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:01:43 +0000

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0409092boynton1.html

By: Rupert

Rupert — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:14:22 +0000

There are quite a few open source solutions to this.

The best and easiest by far I have found is motion:

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome

It’s Linux only and CLI only, but very resource efficient and works with almost all cameras and there are a few web interface alternatives out there.

Then there is Zoneminder:

http://www.zoneminder.com/

A much better inteface but doesn’t work so nice with as many different camera as easily.

And finally, there is Home Camera, a great free service with paid for additional options:

http://www.homecamera.com/web/Home.do

I wrote a little about it al myself here : http://www.prupert.co.uk/2009/03/18/motion-1-zoneminder-0/

Plus a handy script to turn off and on motion via your bluetooth connection on your phone ;)