On Wednesday 09 November 2005 07:36, Ueli Meier wrote: >Hi >Is there anyone who set up a home surveillance system wit Linux? >Im thinking of using a normal web-cam and a Laptop computer. >What are the requirements? >Is there any software that can start record automatically when there is >some Movement, and pause when movement stops? >Purpose to keep an eye on the fruit trees. > >Ueli
By the use of heyu and xtend, the latter a monitoring daemon for x10 traffic, you can do whatever you would need. Xtend is scriptable. I use those, a cm-11 computer interface from the shack (needs a spare serial port) and the eagleeye/hawkeye PIR motion detectors from X10, I have the lights on the front of the house controlled. I change the mode 3 times a day with some crontab entrys. I think the biggest problem might be the laptop, it will need lots of spare hd capacity in order to record a whole days activity. The other problem might be the camera. I have one I was going to use, but gave up on it when the video turned out to be so crappy, color balance seems to be all greenish yellow & not correctable. An $80 dollar USB camera, only does about 7 frames/second & I wasn't going to put any more money into it. I'd also put another $80 into USB extension cables when I found the camera was a POS. So camera-wise, the old adage about YMMV certaily applies. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Free OpenDocument reader/writer/converter download: http://www.openoffice.org Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]