stuart wrote: >> 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 > I wasn't aware zoneminder exists. But it seems to offer the features I'm after on a mythfrontend basis.
It's just that I don't have a single mythfrontend. > 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. > Could do that with motion too, I guess. Using xawtv or something to display the camera. thx Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
