I thought about that, but a couple of things militate against it: the server room is buried in the middle of the building, and I don't want the signal on the production network - I'm going to place the cams outside of our firewall.
Kurt On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 13:35, Eric Kahklen <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you looked at any of the wireless webcams? I haven't used one > personally. It might be overkill, but my brother got a nice camera setup > from Costco for monitoring his building. > > Eric > On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:43, Brian Lane <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/11/09 10:22 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: >>>> >>>> All, >>>> >>>> I have been tasked with making a recommendation for a web cam that >>>> will monitor the parking lot at $WORK, for weather purposes, not >>>> surveillance - some folks want to be able to check on snow >>>> accumulation before leaving the house. Thus, I don't need to do TPZ or >>>> stream video, but do need a picture of the parking lot around once a >>>> minute or so. Don't need sound, either. >>> >>> >>> They do more than you need, but I really like the Axis IP cameras. They >>> have models that do PoE. you can grab an image off them with a cronjob >>> and post it to a webpage someplace for coworkers to check. >>> >>> And they run Linux :) >>> >>> Brian >> >> Heh. Linux is good... >> >> But, they're really expensive. Definitely overkill. If we were doing >> surveillance, I'd vote for them in a heartbeat. >> >> Kurt > > -- > Eric Kahklen > [email protected] > 206-595-2934 > >
