[ale] ZoneMinder

[Adrin]

When I went home last January,  I noticed that a lot of stores/shoppes
had made cages for the compressors. 

Good Luck

Hey, At least with motion he can get a video of the crime in action on a
remote server/cell phone. 


On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 16:08 -0400, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> On 07/24/2008 01:18:40 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > > Just to interject here...what's more important to your father, 
> > > preventing his HVAC system from being pilfered or taking video of
> > the 
> > > people who did it?
> > >   
> > 
> > Insurance will cover the system but he would be interested in ways of 
> > prevention if you have suggestions.  The HVAC ppl said he could put a 
> > pressure alarm on the system but the thieves can get away with the 
> > copper in about 15 minutes and it would do little good.
> > 
> 
> 
> Ok - First lets admit that with respect to security alarms etc I 
> probably don't know what I'm babbling about.
> 
> That said - video monitoring with recording provides some weak 
> deterrence, and can provide evidence for prosecution (if you get lucky) 
> assuming sufficient lighting. 
> 
> With respect to lighting, I have a friend who self-installed a video 
> monitoring system looking for a neighbor's pitbulls which keep getting 
> out of their pen. The attached IR illumination is _limited_ on his 
> equipment, so you may want to look for some floodlamps either in the 
> visible or IR.
> 
> Joining the the pressure alarm with a motion monitoring system may be 
> resistant enough to false alarms to justify a local horn or sound 
> alarm, which would slightly increase the deterrence value of the 
> system. Alternatively, or in addition, triggering a strobe might both 
> have a deterrent effect and improve the odds of a good solid picture 
> being captured.
> 
> And now to get admittedly weird: I think motion (the program set) has 
> the ability to localize moving bodies in the image. Use that ability to 
> trigger a targeting laser and potentially scare any miscreants half to 
> death. There are probably legal consequences however. 
> 
> Again, there are probably legal consequences, but years ago an auto 
> repair outfit got tired of thieves just shooting the guard dog, and 
> hired three or four rattlesnakes. Stopped intrusions in their tracks. 
> Unfortunately, one of the snakes wound up hibernating in a tire instead 
> of going in their daytime tank after the evenings guard duty. Pet 
> snakes might make decent guard animals tho...
> 
> Hope this doesn't represent too much noise on the list. YMMV of course.
> 
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