On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:16:00PM +0000, Paul Pruett wrote:
> Any suggestions for opensource video survelliance applications
> on OpenBSD?
>
>
> I setup an openbsd server to support a condominium association,
> and it has been successful using cyrus-imap and drupal.
> Now I was asked if we could add video cameras and security
> using the openbsd server. The short answer is yes, the correct
> answer is maybe :) and what approach depends on coverage
> and budget....
>
> I realize a practical discussion is way beyond the scope of
> this list with questions like, do the cameras do the video
> capture or have the CTV signal come back to server to capture,
> and how much done by hardware how much done by software,
> motion detection could switch from time lapse to full or
> from quadrant view to active camera?...,
> and so on,
>
> that said...
> Is anyone using some opensource project or the like
> on openbsd to coordinate the storage of video and retrieval
> through a web interface and if so how mature or suggestions?
> (and maybe embed in drupal or other cms if can....)
>
> As afore I will do a summary report back to the list
> for others if I find enough snippets to suggest approaching
> building survielliance using openbsd and maybe apache/mysql/php
> or the like. Else a proprietary hardware solution may
> be considered, since I said emphatically no MSd0ze solution
> for something supporting 6 - 30 cameras with access to
> retrieve and view stored video upto several weeks or more.
I don't know anything about this, but Dave Feustel <daf at a64 dot
comcast dot net> has been posting messages indicating he's trying to
build such a system to comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc. You might find some
of them helpful, even if Dave sometimes has an original take on things.
Joachim
