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1. Re: Motion setup (Roger Heflin)
2. Re: Motion setup (Billy Rey)
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:20:45 -0500
From: Roger Heflin <roger.hef...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Motion setup
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There is nothing that says you cannot use a laptop/set-top box rather than
a PI. it will just be a bit larger and use a bit more power. Especially
if you have spare "free" laptops.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 7:02 PM Billy Rey <dipad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Barry! After looking at the setup, I'm going to call a pass. All I
> have are laptops and nowhere to place the raspberry cards. I'm looking
> for something I can run on a simple laptop. Thank you for all of your help!
>
> Dan Hickman
>
> dipad...@gmail.com
> Somewhere in Colorado...
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> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 6:54 AM Barry Martin <barry3mar...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Billy!
>>
>> My first system was a mighty Timex Sinclair with the high speed of a
>> whopping 4k. I used a pencil to type on it. I still have it.
>>
>> I never had one but bit of trivia: their kits and assembled units were
>> manufactured in Nashua, NH, where I was raised; for a while the Post Office
>> didn't know where to send the orders people mailed in: "1 Sinclair Plaza"
>> (IIRC) didn't exist! Ended up they had renamed their location (oddly
>> enough I'm remembering it being the old Post Office building) for marketing
>> purposes but the information never made it through. Dad had sent me the
>> newspaper article; I was in college at the time.
>>
>>
>> Then I went to a Radio Shack Tandy. The TRS-80 Micro Computer System.
>> Don't remember the speed on it. Then to the Commodore Pet, 64, 1200 and
>> then the Amiga 2000. Now the PC. I run a dual boot. Linux Mint on one end
>> and win 10 on the of the other. Love that Linux.
>>
>> OK, so you should be good with installing the Linux version. On what
>> device is up to you. I lean towards dedicated devices because over the
>> decades I have had computers suddenly fail and if everything on one device
>> would take out everything. Plus a reboot or lockup on one computer doesn't
>> break another. Not that I don't multitask and multifunction, just split
>> things up a little.
>>
>> Depending on the physical layout remote computers (Raspberry Pi's are
>> nice and small!) might be better. I have the USB cameras mounted in a
>> couple of windows, on the inside; RPi semi-hidden, WiFi for saving and
>> live-streaming. One RPi is on a small UPS, the other on a UPS HAT.
>>
>> When I was originally looking into wireless cameras most which did what I
>> wanted and in a decent price range were connecting to an external website
>> and then returning the picture back to me. I'm not too concerned with
>> Russian, Chinese, etc., hackers but more if my Internet connections fails
>> or if the external website goes belly-up: I can't see my own stuff! As you
>> already have cameras in place you should be able to use those with Motion.
>> Wireless ones I'm not sure, only because I haven't done it (yet!). I'm
>> pretty sure you need one camera.conf file for each, ... (!) ... and that's
>> probably where one can use their 'main' computer for Motion. (The wired
>> vs. wireless configuring differs a bit.)
>>
>>
>>
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:21:47 -0600
From: Billy Rey <dipad...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Motion setup
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Hi Roger,
I have 6 laptops over there doing nothing. Do you have any videos to come
back to lithe living. Do you hsve any video to show how do it?
Thanks
Dan Hickman
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:21 PM Roger Heflin <roger.hef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is nothing that says you cannot use a laptop/set-top box rather than
> a PI. it will just be a bit larger and use a bit more power. Especially
> if you have spare "free" laptops.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 7:02 PM Billy Rey <dipad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Barry! After looking at the setup, I'm going to call a pass. All
>> I have are laptops and nowhere to place the raspberry cards. I'm looking
>> for something I can run on a simple laptop. Thank you for all of your help!
>>
>> Dan Hickman
>>
>> dipad...@gmail.com
>> Somewhere in Colorado...
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>>
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 6:54 AM Barry Martin <barry3mar...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Billy!
>>>
>>> My first system was a mighty Timex Sinclair with the high speed of a
>>> whopping 4k. I used a pencil to type on it. I still have it.
>>>
>>> I never had one but bit of trivia: their kits and assembled units were
>>> manufactured in Nashua, NH, where I was raised; for a while the Post Office
>>> didn't know where to send the orders people mailed in: "1 Sinclair Plaza"
>>> (IIRC) didn't exist! Ended up they had renamed their location (oddly
>>> enough I'm remembering it being the old Post Office building) for marketing
>>> purposes but the information never made it through. Dad had sent me the
>>> newspaper article; I was in college at the time.
>>>
>>>
>>> Then I went to a Radio Shack Tandy. The TRS-80 Micro Computer System.
>>> Don't remember the speed on it. Then to the Commodore Pet, 64, 1200 and
>>> then the Amiga 2000. Now the PC. I run a dual boot. Linux Mint on one end
>>> and win 10 on the of the other. Love that Linux.
>>>
>>> OK, so you should be good with installing the Linux version. On what
>>> device is up to you. I lean towards dedicated devices because over the
>>> decades I have had computers suddenly fail and if everything on one device
>>> would take out everything. Plus a reboot or lockup on one computer doesn't
>>> break another. Not that I don't multitask and multifunction, just split
>>> things up a little.
>>>
>>> Depending on the physical layout remote computers (Raspberry Pi's are
>>> nice and small!) might be better. I have the USB cameras mounted in a
>>> couple of windows, on the inside; RPi semi-hidden, WiFi for saving and
>>> live-streaming. One RPi is on a small UPS, the other on a UPS HAT.
>>>
>>> When I was originally looking into wireless cameras most which did what
>>> I wanted and in a decent price range were connecting to an external website
>>> and then returning the picture back to me. I'm not too concerned with
>>> Russian, Chinese, etc., hackers but more if my Internet connections fails
>>> or if the external website goes belly-up: I can't see my own stuff! As you
>>> already have cameras in place you should be able to use those with Motion.
>>> Wireless ones I'm not sure, only because I haven't done it (yet!). I'm
>>> pretty sure you need one camera.conf file for each, ... (!) ... and that's
>>> probably where one can use their 'main' computer for Motion. (The wired
>>> vs. wireless configuring differs a bit.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> _______________________________________________
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>>
>>
>>
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