On 02/02/2014 01:54 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 01/29/2014 06:55 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Us NON-Experts say that before you spend a ton of time doing this you might want to price pre-baked systems to see if you really want to re-invent the wheel. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_16?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=security%20camera%20system&sprefix=security+camera+%2Caps%2C359
You can get entire systems for less than the price of the computer you would have to buy to run this stuff. Jim, JA
Thank you for your replies, I'll evaluate each. I am always torn with regard to buying a box-set or building my own. There are some many fantastic open-source projects out there, I just figured there must be a security system monitoring project somewhere. If not, how hard could it be? Take a couple of camera feeds (there has to be some basic interface to them) write a small app to capture a frame per second or two and perhaps a compressed continual audio stream (size permitting) and just record the information on an existing server. Perhaps get fancy and provide an interface where you could mux the feeds 2-up or 4-up,etc.. and be done with it for the price of the cameras.
However, I'm starting from an empty pool of knowledge regarding camera capabilities, interfaces, the works, so it will be interesting to see what is out there. I'll post a write-up when I get done digesting the information. If anybody else has any thoughts on this type of setup please let me know. Thanks.
I was able to run ZoneMinder with a single wifi IP-camera in my office on an existing workstation, with 4 FPS capture and recording on motion detection, and had no perceptible impact on normal office work. Of course, YMMV if you need to run more cameras, use video capture cards, or do other things I didn't need to do. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org