Ultimate Wireless Webcam? 58
Chris asks: "I am in need of a webcam for home security. I want it to be able to connect to my home wireless network (802.11g) and have access to its images from a secure website. I also want to be able to access images from it on my cellphone. Is there a webcam that does this?"
IT? (Score:5, Insightful)
or am I just making that up?
Re:IT? (Score:1)
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Re:I'm looking for the same, plus more (Score:2)
Check out the first post about the Veo.
Re:I'm looking for the same, plus more (Score:3, Informative)
Webcam Graz - Telecom Building [steiermark.at]
Both are Axis Webcams in an outdoor housing with a standard (netgear) access point squeezed into the same housing. At the installation site there's just a power feed, network connectivity is provided using directional wifi antennas from about 1.5km distance.
More detail on request
Re:I'm looking for the same, plus more (Score:2)
Veo Observer (Score:5, Informative)
Not only this, unlike X10, they have never spammed me or put annoying popups on web pages.
Re:Veo Observer (Score:1)
Oh, you mean like this one (Score:2)
802.11g, motion detection and will email you also (which you can bounce to your cellphone).
Re:Oh, you mean like this one (Score:1)
I love my veo observer (Score:3, Informative)
More cameras (Score:3, Interesting)
DLink makes some wireless cameras. Page is here: http://www.dlink.com/products/category.asp?cid=60
Here is one from Linksys: http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=
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Re:More cameras (Score:1)
look at the bottom of http://www.linksys.com/support/gpl.asp
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Paranoid? (Score:1)
I mean, accessing it from you Cellphone? How much you actually going to be able to see? You going to run home everytime theres some kind of movement outside? Could be some one breaking in.... or could just be next doors cat.
How about just get one that will take a pic every time there is movement, then if someone DID break in, you would have pictures of who it was, plus insurance company can't say you didn't take enough steps.
Having this kin
Re:Paranoid? (Score:3, Informative)
It would be nice if there was some kind of open-source project [zoneminder.com] that wrote software for this kind of thing, too...
Re:Paranoid? (Score:2)
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Re:Paranoid? (Score:2)
I'll admit, it's more oriented towards the hackerish experimenter, since it required that I rebuild my kernel with the Video 4 Linux modules. It took me a weekend to get the software part up and running and calibrated for the environment (noise masking, sensitivity, etc).
The hardware took longer since I had to learn how to run cables. Obviously, this *could* be done with wireless cameras, but my paranoia level was such that I don't want jamming or simple signal intercept... But I
Re:Paranoid? (Score:2)
But again, the proprietary stuff we could find in general wasn't much better. The best solution I could see for ease of implementation was a pure Axis system, with Axis cameras and software (which I've used be
Re:Paranoid? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Paranoid? (Score:1)
The only time that I did video something significant was when someone pinched some stuff [boutade.net], but it was all retrospective as we only looked at the video once we discovered things were missing.
X10 (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:X10 (Score:2)
Here's an actual example of a standard X-10 cam image [thornynorny.com](it's a test page, no updates.) These are the standard color cams, there is also a wide angle B&W camera too and ones with the pan/tilt thingies. The wireless reciver outputs a standard composite video feed (you could split to a VCR). The supplied X-10 uses a USB decoder wich is pretty lo-res, the cameras output higher res then the digitizer. The software do
Re:X10 (Score:2)
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Webcams (Score:1)
Wireless camera theft (Score:5, Funny)
Funny as hell.
First back up a bit... (Score:3, Interesting)
In general, it looks to me like you haven't really thought this through. I suspect you don't need any such camera at all.
In general, your post makes you sound like a paranoid pussy with too much stuff in your house and too much money to blow, who for some reason feel the need to brag about this on Slashdot. Well, I'm not impressed.
Re:First back up a bit... (Score:1)
That's when you hit the web-enabled "wireless Shotgun" and activate the "street sweeper" mode.
Next question.
Re:First back up a bit... (Score:3, Interesting)
And maybe his kids are supervised, but he wants to watch the watcher. It's handy to know when the kids are being ignored and/or terrorized by the babysitter.
Digital recordings are often used now in criminal investigations, because the systems are becoming more reliable and higher quality than tape can do. Tape is usually limited to TV resolution at best, which is
I could use the same thing.. (Score:1)
Recently I got given a crappy old laptop, no battery or drives and the HDD was stuffed. I had a spare drive, it runs off 12v just fine. I've added a 802.11b card and USB webcam and it lives in my van now. I just need to add config to 'motion' so that it'll watch and store the output of the va
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Home Insecurity (Score:2)
Do yourself a favor and get a hardwired webcam, there are plenty of FireWire cams that you can put up to 1000 feet from your
Re:Home Insecurity (Score:2)
Dude, that naked guy looks like you! (Score:2)
Why? Because if you forget that the camera is one, and happen to walk past after recently emerging from the shower, then you might just end up on somebody's webpage. Personally, I keep my cam unp
Re:Dude, that naked guy looks like you! (Score:1)
This is a usb camera and the above still applies even with the computer turned off (she's not stupid, just paranoid)
Re:Dude, that naked guy looks like you! (Score:2)
I can give you all but the G (Score:2)
I own and love my veo observer, but it limits reception to IE users..
I've since become EXTREMELY enamored of panasonic netcams, they only thing they suck on is sound, they have no audio... take a look at them [panasonic.com] try a websearch for urls that include "viewnetcam.com/" to find a camera on the internet-- I found one listed with someones posted hijack this log (I won't post the url) but it's an amazing device- p