[XCSSA] Motion activated Security Cam/CCTV Monitoring in Linux

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:11 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San
Antonio<xcssa at xcssa.org> wrote:

> I'm not exactly clear on your setup Jeremy... But ZM uses motion program under
> the hood.. which is always "connected" to the video device, watching it
> waiting for "motion events" and setting off alarms, alerts and recording when
> needed.  If your camera is hooked directly to the ZM server.. then it should
> not be consuming any bandwidth... However, if you have your Axis camera at
> home, and server on the Net pulling a solid stream from it.. then yeah man..
> you're going to be filling your uplink out of your house continuously, 24x7..
> and Time Warning or AT&T will probably shut you down (or start capping
> you ;).

My Axis cam is on my internal network so I would assume it would use
some bandwidth on the inside (which I'm fine with). It was the
outgoing bandwidth that was puzzling me since nothing was connected to
it at the time.



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Jeremy Mann
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