At 10:18 PM -0400 10/22/05, Wm. Arnold wrote:
Hi List,
I' m new to this list.
I need info on how to use remote sensors and remote video by modem on a Mac
9500 and OS 9.2.2.
This will be very intermittent, like 1 minute, twice a day.
This will be used to monitor a furnace room in a church.
Regards Wm.--
There are a number of stand-alone IP cameras that might work for what
you need. Do a froogle.com search for IP camera and see what you
find. You can find decent ones for under $200.
Something like this -
http://www.trendnet.com/products/TV-IP200.htm
Some of them have built-in webservers as well as built-in motion
sensors that will email images when something moves in a particular
spot (you choose the spot).
WARNING- You may need a Windows-based PC to configure these cameras
to take full advantage of their capabilities. Many of them use an
Active X interface for setup of the advanced features. If you do buy
one, make sure that it supports and utilizes Java. The PTZ (Pan Tilt
Zoom) cams, in particular, are almost all based on Active X, which is
Windows only.
Such a camera would require electrical power. Some can utilize
(optional) POE (Power Over Ethernet), but they all require an
electrical power source.
No matter what you do, if you want to receive the recorded images
from the camera on your Mac via a network connection, you will need
some network connectivity to the camera - e.g. phone/modem or DSL or
cable or satellite or wifi with directional antennas, as well as some
additional network hardware to permit the camera to send you the
pictures it takes.
An AirPort Extreme Base Station with a built in modem might work.
New, the AP Extreme costs about $200. You might be able to find one
of the used original graphite APBS cheaper. You probably wouldn't
need a *dedicated* phone line, but you would need an available phone
line that the built-in modem could use to dial out.
It sounds like a bit of a challenging project, frankly. If Mac
networking is your hobby, you could certainly do it, and probably on
the cheap. You might save money (and you'd certainly save time) by
simply having an alarm/security company come out and install some
sort of video surveillance setup that records cameras to local video
tape for later viewing. It might be part of a larger local security
setup for the facility as a whole.
good luck!
-Larry
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