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
>
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>
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