EvoCam may help
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1030
The underlying idea is that you turn on your web server software in
OS-X and the web-cam software posts a page to your local "site" and
updates it every so often or continuously (uh yes, this is how the porn
cams work on the internet, but you can use the same stuff for other
purposes.). Depending on the software, you can save the video feeds or
not. Some businesses use this as a cheap internal security system.
Jerry
On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 12:05 AM, profile wrote:
> On 5/7/03 11:40 PM, "Jerry Yeager" <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> Jerry,
>
> Thanks, I also had found the SecuritySpy on Version Tracker...seems it
> has a
> lot of bugs yet. I have sent them an email asking a few hardware and
> software questions.
>
> I am not familiar with how the Web-Cams work, any suggestion as to
> where to
> begin learning this setup?
>
> My thanks,
>
> John R.
>
>
>
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
>
>
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
