[XCSSA] Do-It-Yourself Home Surveillance

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio xcssa at xcssa.org
Mon Jul 6 15:21:06 CDT 2009 

I've been using ZM with ubuntu for about 2 years now... with 9 zones
using IP cameras.

I find the data management portion of the app to be lacking, but
everything else works great.

-Richard
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, X-otic Computer Systems of San
Antonio<xcssa at xcssa.org> wrote:
>
> Has anyone else tried ZoneMinder...?
>
> I had it running and  viewing on my phone until I tore down my network... I can confirm which < $30 eBay cards worked for me if anyone cares... I bought two of the same card from Luong Wong Do-do Trading, Etc, Ltd. in Chin-wan-istan somewhere and they both came with crap for drivers/software but both worked fine with ZoneMinder. bt848 I believe. I see the same card all over eBay, cheap.
>
> kc
>
> --- On Mon, 7/6/09, xcssa-request at xcssa.org <xcssa-request at xcssa.org> wrote:
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>> From: xcssa-request at xcssa.org <xcssa-request at xcssa.org>
>> Subject: XCSSA Digest, Vol 20, Issue 4
>> To: xcssa at xcssa.org
>> Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 12:00 PM
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>>    1. Re: Good Article on Arduino C vs
>> regular C in this month's
>>       Nuts n Volts (X-otic Computer Systems
>> of San Antonio)
>>    2. Re: Good Article on Arduino C vs
>> regular C in this month's
>>       Nuts n Volts (X-otic Computer Systems
>> of San Antonio)
>>    3. Re: Tweeks' Computing Annals and CMS'
>>       (X-otic Computer Systems of San
>> Antonio)
>>    4. Any 4th Sale Weekend Deals?
>>       (X-otic Computer Systems of San
>> Antonio)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:06:45 -0500
>> From: X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio <xcssa at xcssa.org>
>> Subject: Re: [XCSSA] Good Article on Arduino C vs regular C
>> in this
>>     month's    Nuts n Volts
>> To: xcssa at xcssa.org
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>> Tweeks wrote:
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>> >Good little article that covers "The Arduino Way" (TAW,
>> using wiring) vs "A C
>> >Way" (ACW) programming.
>>
>> July or August? It isn't on the ToC (by that name) for
>> July, and those
>> who don't subscribe can't read it online anyway. Is it
>> worth visiting
>> the Forest of the Dead to obtain?  --Don
>>
>> --
>> A computer is a hole in your desk you pour time into.
>>
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 22:31:37 -0500
>> From: X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio <xcssa at xcssa.org>
>> Subject: Re: [XCSSA] Good Article on Arduino C vs regular C
>> in this
>>     month's    Nuts n Volts
>> To: xcssa at xcssa.org
>> Message-ID: <200907052231.37234.tweeksjunk2 at theweeks.org>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
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>> On Sunday 05 July 2009 02:06:45 pm X-otic Computer Systems
>> of San Antonio
>> wrote:
>> > Tweeks wrote:
>> > >Good little article that covers "The Arduino Way"
>> (TAW, using wiring) vs
>> > > "A C Way" (ACW) programming.
>> >
>> > July or August?
>>
>> August... It should be on the shelves (check Borders) this
>> weekend).
>>
>>
>> Tweeks
>>
>>
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:15:25 -0500
>> From: X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio <xcssa at xcssa.org>
>> Subject: Re: [XCSSA] Tweeks' Computing Annals and CMS'
>> To: xcssa at xcssa.org
>> Message-ID: <4A517A5D.7060807 at shlrm.org>
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>> > An a related topic:
>> > --------------------
>> > Maybe I should install a CMS for XCSSA.. Allow folks
>> to publish their own
>> > pages, hack-docs, a shared wiki, etc. Thoughts? (I
>> prefer drupal)
>> >
>>
>> Joomla is teh crap. No user granulation at all. They can
>> either do
>> everything, or nothing. BLEH.
>>
>> If you're good at admin-ing drupal, that'd probably work.
>> I'm too lazy
>> to deal with drupal.
>>
>> --
>> David Kowis
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>> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:20:25 -0500
>> From: X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio <xcssa at xcssa.org>
>> Subject: [XCSSA] Any 4th Sale Weekend Deals?
>> To: xcssa at xcssa.org
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>> I was so pleased with my other pre-4th acquisitions, that I
>> went back to
>> Harborfreight and got some more!
>>
>>
>> Harborfreight 4th Sale Deal #1: Two Mini Aluminum
>> Flashlights for $4 (reg $10)
>> I bought a couple of these last week:
>>     http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=97036
>>
>> But loved them so much that I went back and got two more!
>> They were on sale
>> (through the 4th) for just $3.99 for a two pack.. and I
>> LOVE these little
>> super bright LED lights. The suckers are only three inches
>> long, INCLUDE
>> three AAA cells and are solid knurled aluminum.  I
>> have four of them now..
>> one for the car, one beside the bed.. one in my computer
>> case, and a spare
>> that the kids play with.  Even at $10 they're a deal.
>> :)
>>
>> Harborfreight 4th Sale Deal #2: Outdoor, color/IR Video
>> Camera $30 (reg $40)
>> As I've said before, I'm kind of starting to buy up the
>> parts for building a
>> home surveillance  system for doing motion activated
>> cameras that will email
>> my phone URLs to see live activity in and around my house
>> given certain
>> conditions... and have saw that Harborfreight was selling
>> these little
>> outdoor, solid aluminum housing, IR/night cameras for just
>> $29! A pretty
>> sweet deal:
>>     http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=95914
>>
>> I've been shopping around and cameras like these typically
>> START at around $70
>> and go up.  So even at the regualr $40 they're a
>> deal.
>>
>> BTW.. if folks are interested.. the raw program to do
>> motion activated snap
>> shots in Linux is called "motion", here:
>>     http://motion.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> But I'll post more info on doing Linux based security
>> monitoring in my next
>> post.
>>
>> Tweeks
>>
>>
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