<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail">> Trendnet has some. You'd need to get the java plugin working to view <br>> them in a linux browser - not sure about full-time recording software. <br>> If you don't have enough to justify a POE switch, you can get individual <br>> power bricks that plug into the line to add power at a convenient place.<br>> <br><br>Les, thanks for the pointer to Trendnet. They've got a *large* selection.<br><br>I'm finding that there's a variety of video formats output by these<br>various devices... which is a consideration for us non-Windows folks. I<br>haven't come down to a decision on which yet. Of course it's going to<br>depend upon which are supported by Linux. For some reason, on my
system<br>flashplayer is unreliable... sometimes it works, sometimes not. MPEG4<br>though works fine in Firefox. Due to past experience (many bad ones),<br>I'm leery of Java-based software, so I'd be shy about using that<br>plug-in. Hopefully there'd be other alternatives... anyone know about some?<br><br>Les, you bring up a good question about full-time recording. I don't<br>know at all how that might work on Linux. Someone earlier mentioned<br>ftp'ing the video files. If that's all it takes, then great. Some of<br>the IP cameras have an ftp client, but I haven't seen one yet with an<br>ftp *server* on it, so how it's possible to fetch and save the video<br>files is still a mystery to me. Anyone with experience doing this with<br>Linux?<br><br><br>Thanks to everyone for the comments and tips, the previous and future ones.<br><br><br>Best,<br>ken<br><br>Hello,<br>We have had success ACTi cameras
http://www.acti.com/home/index.asp<br>and use ZoneMinder as a DVR and a console for viewing cameras http://www.zoneminder.com/<br>We have also used Axis cameras but the ACTi cameras are less expensive and better fit the schools budget.<br><br>Brett<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>