I used to use motion when I had a free webcam hooked up to my desktop. There is a nice guide here for motion: http://infectedproject.com/2008/04/11/how-to-part-1-cheap-ubuntu-based-home-security/
With some scripts I wrote to FTP the files offsite, and clean up the temp pictures via cron on both the local and remote storage. Bear in mind that is not my site, I just contributed. -- Regards Morgan Storey,A+, MCSE:Security. IT Security Specialist. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Matthew Hannigan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:46:15PM +1000, Phil Manuel wrote: > > [ ... ] > > use this package at work, it is not an easy install with some USB > > camera's although it has improved with later releases and kernels. > > Indeed; my camera (logitech sphere af) has only become painless with > very recent versions of kernel and motion. > > Here's some dmesg lines for it: > > Linux video capture interface: v2.00 > uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:0994) > uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling > workaround. > input: UVC Camera (046d:0994) as > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input5 > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
