Security Webcam

komoto · Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject: Security Webcam

Hey people.

I've got a little quickcam webcamera, installed and working wonderfully on my gentoo system. At the moment (for novelty value) I use mplayer to see it working. It's registered itself as device /dev/video0

My question is. (as you have probably guessed from the subject). Is there any decent software out there for detecting motion through a camera device and then recording it to disk. A basically want to use the camera as a little security device outside my room.

I'm looking for something I can get through portage. It doesn't have to be GUI driven or anything.

Thanks

-Komoto

slashdevslashtty · Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject:

motion and motiontrack are in portage and the first google result for 'linux motion detection' yields this.

Pete M · Apprentice Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 154

www-misc/zoneminder

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komoto · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:39 am Post subject:

Thanks Guys. I'm checking out that software right now.

-Komoto

thecooptoo · Veteran Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 1353 Location: UK

im about to do the same thing - any conclusions?
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uxbod · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 474 Location: UK

zoneminder is very mature and is under constant development. just sorting out a X86 system and will definately be using that.

Sourcemaker · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 44

Well... this post sounds interessting...
I think it would also be nice to use a webam
as a a "who is knocking at the door" feature... ;-)