Rob Beard wrote: > javadayaz wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> As some of you may know i have an android phone G1 phone. I would like >> to avail the phones unlimited data plan. Some of you may also know >> about my exploits are linking my media to a TV in my new house. >> >> I was just wondering if anyone here uses a webcam as security camera. >> Preferably in Ubuntu. I would like the ability to "dial in" and look >> in as well. >> >> Has anyone had any experience in this? >> > Yes, there is a program in the repositories called Motion. It can > capture still images or video (not sure about audio too) from a webcam > or TV tuner (so you could plug a better camera in) and it will save the > images, e-mail them or upload them to a web site. I used it for a > studio web cam in a radio station I used to work at. IIRC it worked > happily on an old P3 733 with 256MB Ram for capturing images and doing > motion detection. It is also possible to use multiple cameras too and > it also supports network webcams. > > The web site for motion is here: > http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome > > There are other applications available, some simple and some more > complicated (I found one which had a fancy web interface and all sorts > of complicated stuff in it and never managed to get it working, but > motion is fairly simple if you read the instructions on the > configuration files). > > Hope this helps. > > > Rob > > > I'd second the vote for motion mentioned by Rob, I used it on a similarly spec'd machine with no problems.
One thing to be aware of though, I found that if you tried to view the stream/feed from the camera via the web from a windows machines, Internet explorer wasn't capeable of displaying the feed. It was something about the mjpeg format that motion uses is a classed as a video stream, and the IE developers wouldn't include it because it was video and not a fixed image. Dave -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
