Hi Marc... Marc Gerges wrote: > Dear all -- > > I started using a security camera with motion and am going to set up a > second one soon. The interest is to capture movement and being able to > take a look at things from away, but it would be nice to look at it from > my TV set.
Me too. I was thinking of using zoneminder and have been experimenting with it. I haven't tried it yet but there is a mythtv plugin for zonemimnder. It's talked about here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythZoneMinder > motion can generate an MJPEG stream and set up a loopback device to > deliver the camera data to the system. I could see how to set up this > loopback device in mythtv and use mvpmc's live TV functionality to watch > it. But that seems awfully complex and creates a delayed view. > > Is there a way to make this nicer and easier in mvpmc? Just looking at > the MJPEG stream like in a browser or at the camera device like xawtv? > Ideally in such a way that one remote keypress brings me to the camera > display and back again to what I've been doing? > > Thanks, > Marc That's not a bad idea - I hadn't thought about watching security camera video on a mvpmc box. The MythZoneMinder wiki page says there are screens to view live camera shots. I don't know what would be available using a mythtv / mvpmc box though. There may be a quick solution. The mvpmc box has vnc build into it. But there is no feed back (key presses returned to the vnc server) last I heard. Just the ability to be a vnc client and see the screen of the server. I haven't tried it for some time. However, if you were a linux box you could start a vnc server on a virtual screen (i.e. leaves your main console alone for you to use) and run something like zoneminder on it. Then server that up vnc style to the mvpmc box. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list Mvpmc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
