You might try to try http://www.bensoftware.com/

They have a new beta release called

SecuritySpy
Multi-camera video surveillance software

available on Version Tracker:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15600


Alternatively have you considered installing a few web-cams that record 
a frame once every 5 minutes or so?



On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 04:41  PM, profile wrote:

> MacGroup,
>
> I want to solicit some expert advice from the group.  I have contacted 
> Mark
> and Ward at MacTown, and they are checking, but it could be that 
> someone in
> the group would also be able to help.
>
> I am building a home and I want to install security camera's at each 
> of the
> entrances.  I was going to use the ADT folks, for they had said their 
> system
> would be able to integrate the security with the video...not quite so 
> as it
> was explained.
>
> Now I have to have two different systems, one for security, one for 
> video.
> I want the ability to observe and record to a hard drive the activity 
> around
> the house.  Each door is electrical and cable wired.
>
> What ADT had to offer was very expensive for what you get.  A 30 gig. 
> Hard
> drive that stamps date and time to the video, has a few buttons to 
> push to
> move from one camera to another was so expensive, to add an Ethernet 
> card
> would add $1,000.00!
>
> I ask if I couldn't just run the four coax cables to a box that would 
> then
> use Ethernet (or firewire) to feed a computer, and of course they said
> yes...if I could find a vendor that would build such a box and if it 
> would
> interface with the MAC.
>
> Hopefully I have given enough that someone can point me in a direction 
> that
> will help....many thanks in advance.  As the MAC is the premier 
> machine for
> the video world, I feel someone out there must have a product that will
> adapt.
>
> John Robinson
> profile at aye.net
>
>
>
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
>
>
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