From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 13:25:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6784737B417 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:25:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26338; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:25:33 -0800 Message-ID: <3C2CE34D.2010505@owt.com> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:25:33 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Greenman Cc: Nick Barnes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for home security cameras? References: <70661.1009571206@thrush.ravenbrook.com> <20011228131235.B44808@nexus.root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman wrote: >>My house was burgled just before Christmas. Next time this happens, >>it would be satisfying to present the police with pictures of the >>villains in the act of carting off our TV in our wheelbarrow, or >>ransacking our CD collection. I'm thinking a few cheapo cameras, >>inside and out, hooked up to a server in an inaccessible spot >>(e.g. the attic) or off-site, after I get a cable modem. I would >>prefer FreeBSD on the server. What's the economic way of building a >>system like this? >> > > You know, I've been thinking about doing something very similar. I haven't > really looked into this much yet, but it seems like one could use a video > capture card like the Hauppauge WinTV along with the ports/graphics/fxtv > software. It looks like fxtv could use some modifications, however, such as > a way to reduce the framerate, to make it more suitable for surveillance > applications. I'm not sure how well this would work with multiple WinTV cards > and cameras, nor do I know how much disk space this is going to eat...but > even having the last few hours of video would be useful. Half of the time when I browse somewhere this little X-10 cam pops up. I thought it looked pretty interesting for just that purpose. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message