Re: Norhtec computer for security camera

Very interesting, Jim. Great shots of your intruders. (Looks like we
are neighbors. I'm on Crystal Lake.)
I was wondering about the camera you bought from gadspot.com. Is it
an outdoor camera? Or if not, did you put some kind of heater in the
tree-mounted wood box you installed it in? If possible, I'd like to
avoid the extension cord and cat-5.

>Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:45:17 -0800
>From: Jim Courtney <courtney@ieee.org>
>Subject: Re: Norhtec computer for security camera
>
>I played with the 'motion' software several years ago and liked how it
>was able to use a cheap usb webcam to generate enough frames to make
>decent movie clips of motion events. As you say, the difficulty outdoors
>is wind. For the past couple of years I have used a cheap $100 IP camera
>from gadspot.com inside of a wooden box bungeed to spruce tree so I can
>review what goes on in my driveway. It's connected with a couple hundred
>feet of extension cord and cat-5. It ftp's jpegs to my server when the
>picture changes. It sees infrared and has build-in infrared LED's, and I
>also have an external infrared LED illuminator, but that has still
>proved effective only within a few feet (bats and moths). Unless it is
>extremely windy, which is rare, I can easily pick out the interesting
>pictures because of the consecutive timestamps in the filenames. This
>camera runs linux internally and has an external input and output. You
>have the option to put an infrared motion or other type of sensor on the
>input and trigger the camera that way. The bad thing is that some of the
>config options can only be set with ActiveX controls, but IE under Wine
>works for that. You also need IE to view and capture full-motion video
>with the built-in web server. That may have changed in the last couple
>of years though.
>
>Here's my best driveway shots for the last couple of years:
>
>http://nancylake.com/dwpics
>
>Another outdoor option is an infrared motion-sensing battery-powered
>trail camera. Even a cheap one takes pretty good pictures, with or
>without automatic flash, or in infrared.
>
>Here's a pinhead somebody recently caught with a night-vision trailcam
>as he was allegedly siphoning gas:
>
>http://nancylake.com/gasthief.jpg

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