Dave Walker wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:40 +0100, Damian Brasher wrote:
>> Philip Stubbs wrote:
> <snip>
>> I wondered about that for a simple indoors usb webcam - however the
>> camera
>> from Wickes is water proof, has a very long cable and a built in motion
>> sensor. It may help to use both, I'll try.
>>
> <snip>
>
> The Scart standard has a switching option that is normally used to
> communicate between devices that the feed is live. For example,
> auto-recording or turning a tv channel to scart when 'play' is pressed.
After some more reading I've found the scart pin assignments are fairly
standard and I have a scart adapter with composite video in and out to
reference. So with a pin assignment diagram and this adapter I will be
able to break open an old composite plug and solder the relevant two
outputs from the camera to it. The motion detection is, see above,
signaled along another feed / pin on the scart - so may not be so useful.
> This is likely linked to the movement sensor; this could only really be
> useful if you linked it up to the serial/parallel port to monitor
> movement. At this point the project begins to become more complicated;
> and would therefore recommend an application (ie Zoneminder) to detect
> movement and perform recording.
I've got all the bits together and have decided to go simple to start with
and use the tools supplied with the xawtv package. Zoneminder looks very
good but more than I need. I may not need to use motion detection
depending on the size of image and the capture frequency for archive
purposes.
Thanks list, for the advice, I will let you know how it goes.
Damian
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