camera security

• • CME's Security Cameras (And cat monitors)**

Using Hawkeye motions sensors (Which don't work very well) and some D-link IP cameras (That also don't work very well) I grab some motion from a few locations about the house. I have one to see if the garage is open (Which I'm always forgetting), one to monitor the cats and one for the front door. Using IP cameras have their advantages and disadvantages. IP cameras are easy to set up and call with a get_url (like "get _url 192.168.1.2/image.jpg garage.jpg"). They are slow to respond often so with the delay of the hawkeye sensors and the slow IP cams, you often miss any action you'd want to capture. A prefered way would be with a video server or capture card using analogue cameras as inputs (Cheap, fast, and better low-light). If anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to hear about it.

All this is served up from a client-side garage.pl (might re-write in PHP as it's easier to understand than perl) which dynamically generates the cameras showing history and time stamped jpegs. I also have a Web camera of the golden gate bridge so I can see if it's foggy and I need a sweater before heading to work. I also write out all security calls (doors opening, sensor movement to a seperate security log file and just tail that in this page) the print_log file can get too cluttered with stuff to read on an audrey.

image:Easton_Garagecam.JPG The pages display the history of each day on one page. I need to create these with some thumbnail programs as they're really 320x240 images scaled down, which the Audry's hack on. image:Easton_House.09.JPG