[Novalug] wireless web cams - linux - senior monitoring

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Tue Feb 26 16:12:06 EST 2008


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I hope Doug will speak up. I know he did something like this in his
house for different reasons and spoke about it at a meeting a few
years(!) back


Miles D. Oliver wrote:
> 
>  Jason,
> 
> Thanks for this input. I'll check it out.
> 
>  This particular camera may break my budget but there are others that
> are close that may work.  I can probably also do this with a wired
> connection with a little work.
> 
>  Wireless is best bet but wired will work if I get a switch for that room.
> 
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jason wrote:
> 
> Miles D. Oliver wrote:
> | Can anybody share any webcam experiences?
> 
> I have a Panasonic BL-C131 that I like a lot.  I attach directly do it
> from outside via VPN so I don't know about its snapshot capability but
> I'm pretty sure it'll do it.  Worst case you can script a Linux box to
> grab pictures every n minutes and copy them to a web server somewhere.
> 
> At ~$250 it's not cheap but worth the money.
> 
> -Jason


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