John R Pierce wrote:
On 1/31/2014 7:52 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
With the continuing annoyance from motion, my manager's asked me to go looking again for a video surveillance appliance: basically, a motion-detecting DVR and cameras. The big thing, of course, is a) price (this is a US federal gov't agency, and being civilian, money is*tight*, don't give me the libertarian/GOP line about how freely we spend, thankyouverymuch), b) it has to be on the network, and c) we need to be able to d/l to a server, and rm after we do that... and we want to script or cron job that.
I just setup a Ubiquiti AirCam for fun at home. these are $99 per outdoor grade camera, use power-over-ethernet so there's JUST a single
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Hmmm... that $99 each camera gets expensive, fast. We use three or four in several rooms, which is why were were hoping for a package that included the dvr appliance with cameras. The Speco looks interesting, but I don't see it anywhere as a package, and, in addition, the only AirCam for CentOS seems to be from repoforge, and *very* frequently, I see a lot of conflicts with the base, epel, and rpmfusion packages when I've tried repoforge. Plus, we're almost exclusively a CentOS shop (which is why I live here on this list), that would be more to worry 'bout.
mark, working hard to get the best value for our tax dollars.... <g>