[ale] Motion Detecting Cameras

[Jim Lynch]

I remember years ago someone here at SGI had their Indy set up to turn 
the monitor on with a full screen view of what the camera saw as a 
screen saver when it detected motion.  Rather intimidated the janitorial 
service.  Funny thing, he never seemed to have anything turn up missing 
overnight, like some of us did.

Jim.
Geoffrey wrote:

> Holmquist wrote:
> 
>> Hmm I've seen some windows software like this, the software would
>> compare each frame to the next, and if there was any major diffrence,
>> it would record the picture. This software also could upload the
>> images to a FTP server, and make some HTML pages that would let you
>> see what was happening even if you are not home. It used USB webcams
>> for this (not sure if other types of cameras would work...) I forgot
>> the name of this software, but search downloads.com for camera
>> security or something similiar. too bad it's windows :(
> 
> 
> Why bother?  You can do all you've suggested above freely on Linux. 
> Motion does the capture.  There are webcam packages to do the html.
> 
> I had mine set up to do just this over a year ago.  It also enabled you 
> to snap an image from the webpage as well, and it would present it.
>