Tag: Unix, Unix / Home

Unix

NAVIGATION
CATEGORIES
REFERRENCE
LINKS
Home » Unix

  • Infared camera monitoring

    7 answers - 976 bytes - related search similar search Add To My Delicious Add To My Stumble Upon Add To My Google Mark Add To My Facebook Add To My Digg Add To My Reddit

    I live in an apartment and am having trouble with my roommate and my car.
    I do not live in my apartment on the weekends and it appears my roommate is
    going through my closet and through my stuff, because things seem to keep
    moving around on me.
    Also, my key has been keyed 4-5 times in the last two months but unknown
    persons.
    I would like to set up a wireless camera monitoring system using cheap and
    surplus components.
    I need a security VCR that can record 40hrs or so on one tape from two
    cameras, and I need two wireless infared cameras that I can install, one
    which records my room, and the other which records a view of my car. These
    need to function in total darkness.
    Any suggestions? There are wireless camera kits on ebay for $9.99, but I
    question if their quality will be any better than a cheap PC webcam, which
    would bascially help none at all.
    Looking to spend $200 tops.
    -- Aaron
    GEEKS:

  • No.1 | | 308 bytes | |

    Aaron Finley wrote:
    I live in an apartment and am having trouble with my roommate and my car.
    I do not live in my apartment on the weekends and it appears my roommate is
    going through my closet and through my stuff, because things seem to keep
    moving around on me.

    Time for a new roommate.

  • No.2 | | 694 bytes | |

    Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:27:52AM -0500, Aaron Finley wrote:
    I live in an apartment and am having trouble with my roommate and my car.

    As one (of many I'm sure) people who have had a roommate get wierd on
    them, all I can say is that it's definately time for a new roommate.

    The only thing that monitoring will likely do is create a hostile
    enviroment where stupid little games will get played. This would likely
    escalate any problem to something much more annoying

    Have you tried just talking to him? :-)
    (Yes, I'm aware that that just doesn't work sometimes. It didn't for
    me.)

    Some things are just not worth it.

    dks

  • No.3 | | 375 bytes | |

    Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:27:52AM -0500, Aaron Finley wrote:
    I would like to set up a wireless camera monitoring system using cheap and
    surplus components.

    Even though some people here still hate them for the pop-up ads a few years
    ago, you can't really beat http://www.x10.com. Their wired and wireless
    camera stuff is even cheaper on eBay

    BIll

  • No.4 | | 634 bytes | |

    Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:27:52AM -0500, Aaron Finley wrote:
    >I would like to set up a wireless camera monitoring system using cheap
    >and
    >surplus components.
    >
    Even though some people here still hate them for the pop-up ads a few
    years
    ago, you can't really beat http://www.x10.com. Their wired and wireless
    camera stuff is even cheaper on eBay

    X10's image quality sucks. Barly can make out stuff. Best bet would be get
    IR CCD Cameras (semi good quality, non X10). Then get a quad bus pci
    encoder card and some DVR software.

    GEEKS:

  • No.5 | | 1005 bytes | |

    This is what I use and it works great (though, not wireless):

    http://www.zoneminder.com/

    (only 4 ports on that card work under linux but you can add multiple cards)

    night vision only works on a short range - but works great.

    Hope this helps,
    Cheers!
    Matt

    11/3/05, Atom <rescue (AT) port11 (DOT) netwrote:

    Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:27:52AM -0500, Aaron Finley wrote:
    >I would like to set up a wireless camera monitoring system using cheap
    >and
    >surplus components.
    >
    Even though some people here still hate them for the pop-up ads a few
    years
    ago, you can't really beat http://www.x10.com. Their wired and wireless
    camera stuff is even cheaper on eBay

    X10's image quality sucks. Barly can make out stuff. Best bet would be get
    IR CCD Cameras (semi good quality, non X10). Then get a quad bus pci
    encoder card and some DVR software.

    GEEKS:

    GEEKS:

  • No.6 | | 333 bytes | |

    Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Aaron Finley wrote:

    I would like to set up a wireless camera monitoring system using cheap and
    surplus components.

    I recommend the sort that you can build out of four knuckles and a bowl
    of Wheaties. If you feel like something a little more extravagant,
    there's always a "blanket party".

  • No.7 | | 877 bytes | |

    yep, I second that notion.
    But, if you really want "proof" or what-not, I also second zoneminder
    and linux media lab's capture cards. It's not exactly cake to setup,
    but then again I probably would've had an easier time with it had I
    not been working with someone who insisted on reinstalling linux
    everytime a config broke(instead of looking at a log once, which is
    how I eventually found the problem). So yeah, there.
    -Dave

    11/3/05, Jonathan C. Patschke <jp (AT) celestrion (DOT) netwrote:
    Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Aaron Finley wrote:

    I would like to set up a wireless camera monitoring system using cheap
    and
    surplus components.

    I recommend the sort that you can build out of four knuckles and a bowl
    of Wheaties. If you feel like something a little more extravagant,
    there's always a "blanket party".

Re: Infared camera monitoring


max 4000 letters.
Your nickname that display:
In order to stop the spam: 1 + 0 =
QUESTION ON "Unix"

EMSDN.COM