On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > Hello again, It worked!
Excellent! > Just to recap on the hardware used and the architecture of the whole setup: > > Camera ( simple analog wired (coaxial cable)) is sending video to Kodicom > KMC-4400R video card > the video is analyzed via Zoneminder, and a separate deamon in perl polls > the shared memory > with zoneminder to check for alarm/alert caused by motion detection. > Upon motion detection, the daemon drives this USB relay board: > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-8-Channel-Relay-Board-RS232-Serial-controlled-/280591766649?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D1%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D1423565781848187460 > (FTDI based), using simple echo commands like: > #!/usr/local/bin/bash > echo -e "\xFF\x01\x01" > /dev/cuaU0 > sleep 1 > echo -e "\xFF\x01\x00" > /dev/cuaU0 > However, the above when tested with Ubuntu 11, didnt work out of the > box until i set baudrate explicitly to 9600. > In FreeBSD worked at once, just by running the above script. That'll be because FreeBSD uses 9600 baud as the default serial rate. > Now, two of the relay board NC outputs (circuits) are connected to the two > inputs (loops) in > http://www.visonic.com/Products/Wireless-Property-Protection/Universal-transmitter-mct-100 > (the two circuits are defined as being "EOL" type, not NC) > which in turn talks to > http://www.visonic.com/Products/Wireless-Property-Protection/PowerMaxPlus > > I have two cameras, and i use them as two separate zones. I think it works > good, > and at least for interior spaces, i think motion detection via video is more > reliable > than IR detectors, because in the summer IR struggle to detect motion when > ambient temperature is close to the human temperature. Indeed, in late summer here the humans would show up as cool spots :) > (In exterior spaces, video motion detection is problematic due to large > birds, insects, etc, > while exterior IR motion detection is by default unreliable) > > Thank you all! Thanks for news and feedback. Good to know that those relay boards work erll with FreeBSD .. I have an upcoming project that could use these. cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
