On 04/06/14 09:00, Chuck Hast wrote: > I am new to the list, have been living here in Kalama WA > now for two years, I have been using ZoneMinder for over > 10 years. I use it here in the glass plant, and also I have > a server (not installed) which I brought from my home in > Tampa when we moved here. > > I use all IP cameras on it and it works great. When I lived > in Tampa one of my amateur radio friends who is a com- > mericial security systems guy told me that ZoneMinder > had things that only very expensive DVR products have, > and I have used it to do all sort of detection things. > > Take a look at it: > www.zoneminder.com > > It is VERY flexible and of course ALL open source. There > is a large community. I am running it on a very BIG box > her (8 xeon 24G memory server because I had it and I > expect to expand the thing) but you can run it on most > anything that you can get your hands on in this day and > age. It likes a lot of memory and a 500G Hd will keep 8 > cameras with 6 months of history easy. > > I run all IP cameras though it can do both IP and analogue > cams. I usually set the cameras up on a 1gb island lan > so i am not routing video over a shared resource, but if > you are only sending a few images every once and a while > you can try your hand at sharing your lan. the only part > that needs to be a gb link is between the DVR and the > switch, most cameras are 100mb, Make sure that the > switch has enough space so it does not block if you get > several cameras being hit at the same time. > > > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Tyrell Jentink <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I won't speak to the subject of hardware or recording software, because I >> have no experience with either... But for cloud storage, just about >> anything can store encrypted files. You can encrypt the video archives and >> sync them to Dropbox, and there ain't no one watching them without your >> decryption key. >> >> And if you set it to auto delete at a sane interval, you should be able to >> keep the total storage size on the cloud pretty reasonable (and in turn, >> cheap) as well. >> >> I would personally be tempted to NOT have a streaming server with >> associated holes in my firewall, and instead rely souly on whatever cloud >> service I ended up using to access the recordings. That way, IF you trust >> the encryption on the files, the only security risk is equivalent to basic >> web browsing. >> >> NEW QUESTION: >> >> Home security cameras and Linux: >> >> I often wonder about networked home security cameras with an ability to >> stream to internet or cloud storage in to preserve evidence out of reach >> of the miscreants harming one's property. >> >> The advantage of open source (in that it is inspectable by many >> disinterested persons) is that users can be more confident that there >> are either no software backdoors built in and possibly that if any >> hardware backdoors are discovered, that there maybe software patches >> which available to them. >> >> Otherwise you might get THIS: >> >> >> http://www.latinospost.com/articles/25613/20130815/video-baby-monitor-hacked-texas-foreign-man-who-called-toddler.htm >>> So - is anyone playing around with home security using remote storage of >>> surveillance video which is secure from unauthorized access? >>> (Including where a lawful private citizen wishes to resist access by the >>> data hosting company, or by lower levels of government?) >>> >>> - G >>> >>>
Thanks for the great information and welcome to the community. Although I do not have a current need for this kind of security is nice to know that it exists in open source. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
