On Thursday 14 December 2006 19:08, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> On Thursday 14 December 2006 17:03, Peter Brooks wrote:
> > On 14/12/06, Dr Adam J Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > A friend is planning to buy an expensive VW Van, and is worried
> > > about it being nicked or the contents of it being nicked. He was
> > > considering an option of using a selectiion of cameras connected
> > > to a small/slient PC storing the images/motion on a flash disk.
> > >
> > > I was thinking of something like an ARM based system, USB cameras
> > > and a 4Gb flash disk. Has anyone done something similar? If so
> > > how much did it cost? did it work? Was it a DIY solution or a
> > > bought system?
> > >
> > > As every thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Adam Trickett
> > > Overton, HANTS, UK
> > >
> > > I guess that, if you're in Microsoft's shoes, it makes sense. If
> > > you can't write software or protocols that can stably walk and
> > > chew gum, program in a limit that prevents the user from telling
> > > it to do so. -- Jonathan Patschke, on limitations in Active
> > > Directory
> > >
> > >
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> > > Adam,
> >
> > At our family home we've recently put some money into cctv after
> > the nice blighters around our area were nicking parts off our car,
> > plus we have the same situation with a VW van & goods.
> >
> > Anyway we have got some cheap cameras and a digital video recorder
> > ( http://www.avtech.com.tw/english/product_13_760.htm) for about
> > £200 which is actually just a pc inside but with the necessary
> > software.
>
> I set up a system at my previous church based on zoneminder
> (zoneminder.com) which is an open source linux motion detection video
> capture system. It was pretty cheap - about £40 for the capture board
> and £100 for the (colour, waterproof) camera and £200 or so for a
> lowish spec PC (~1GHz IIRC). ZM is a really usable system and can
> email alerts and feed its database to apache for remote access if
> it's online. The best thing is that it only records what you ask it
> to (e.g. movement in this region here) so it keeps the storage
> requirements down well.
Ta, another good suggestion.
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
The Internet? We are not interested in it.
-- Bill Gates, 1993
