On 11/10/12 10:49, C. Falconer wrote:
Roger Searle wrote, On 10/10/2012 11:25 PM:
I have a Foscam FI8905W IP Camera on the end of my garage looking
across the driveway to the road, transmits to one of the 2 wireless
APs in the house. Recordings are handled by Zone Minder on what is
primarily our MythTV backend box
...
Why Zone minder?
I specifically put motion on the not-myth server, purely to avoid
potential confusion with v4l and /dev/videoX nodes.
Possibly could merge them these days of /dev/dvb/ but can't be bothered.
That's sensible putting on a different box but sadly I don't have
another one available for that. It is pretty well specced, quad core
Phenom, 8GB RAM.
Initially I didn't even know if there was linux support for the camera,
I saw it demo'd in the neighbourhood and knew that I could at least run
it through an XP vm. I knew of ZoneMinder via there being the MythTV
plugin, which I've not really looked at. I did ask a question on
(this?) list at the time about IP cameras, I don't recall there being
any replies.
That particular camera was quite easy to get a stream to VLC. It didn't
take too long to figure out the slightly different incantations to have
it work in ZoneMinder. I've never noticed any issue with it and MythTV
which is via /dev/dvb.
The main issue I have with the setup itself is that our drive is very
long, and it's views from the garage to the road have several trees
which means motion detection won't work reliably. This is despite being
able to create zones in the view where the trees are to ignore motion
triggering the recording. It just means it needs to record 24/7 and
needs a suitable (large) amount of storage to retain some weeks of
recordings.
Cheers,
Roger
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