[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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