No problem. Back when I lived in Tampa, FL, we had a issue with the offspring of a neighbor using the mailboxes as drops for drugs. I put up a camera but did not have a way to capture the video, I started to look for a open source solution, and found ZM. That was about 12 yrs ago, I have been using it ever since. I have seen it used for all kinds of novel things, one guy (and his neighbors) over in the UK had a issue with a person driving at excessive speed through the area, all of them had young children, but they could not get the police to do anything about it, as I recall he used ZM to not only ID the car but to obtain a reasonable estimate of speed on the vehicle, and I believe they were able to obtain relief with the aid of the video captures. I also had a neighbor have a break in, one of my cameras captured the vehicle entering and leaving the property, the sheriff asked for more video and in the end I gave them the last 6 months of video capture, I do not know if they found the guy, but we were able to see that he was driving a Jeep Cherokee and he had a large tat on the left arm. He was also rather obese. ZM captures each frame as a JPG, law enforcement really likes that format.
Yes ZoneMinder is fun to play around with, or get serious and cap- ture some serious video. On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Michael Ewan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
