Hi
I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage.
However, I want to have a couple of cameras a little further away (more than 5 meters).
USB has a limit, I have tried that camera with a longer cable and it does not work ... so I need to route that in a different way. Are there equaly as cheap other moethods? Or can I use USB<-adapter->network cable<-adapter->USB?
How can I get that to work?
Jobst
Hi,
Am 17.06.10 08:22, schrieb Jobst Schmalenbach:
Hi
I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage.
However, I want to have a couple of cameras a little further away (more than 5 meters).
USB has a limit, I have tried that camera with a longer cable and it does not work ... so I need to route that in a different way. Are there equaly as cheap other moethods? Or can I use USB<-adapter->network cable<-adapter->USB?
How can I get that to work?
may be with that usb extender:
XTENDEX® USB-C5-LC - http://www.networktechinc.com/usbc5.html
Cheers - Götz
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
Hi
I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage.
However, I want to have a couple of cameras a little further away (more than 5 meters).
USB has a limit, I have tried that camera with a longer cable and it does not work ... so I need to route that in a different way. Are there equaly as cheap other moethods? Or can I use USB<-adapter->network cable<-adapter->USB?
How can I get that to work?
micro systems running linux at each USB location, all connected with ethernet.
it doesn't take much. http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-31-guruplug-server-standard.aspx
or http://www.mini-box.com/Alix-2B-Board-2-LAN-2-MINI-PCI_3
etc etc.
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:22 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
Hi
I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage.
However, I want to have a couple of cameras a little further away (more than 5 meters).
USB has a limit, I have tried that camera with a longer cable and it does not work ... so I need to route that in a different way. Are there equaly as cheap other moethods? Or can I use USB<-adapter->network cable<-adapter->USB?
How can I get that to work?
Jobst
How about IP Cameras?
At Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:22:48 +1000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi
I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage.
However, I want to have a couple of cameras a little further away (more than 5 meters).
USB has a limit, I have tried that camera with a longer cable and it does not work ... so I need to route that in a different way. Are there equaly as cheap other moethods? Or can I use USB<-adapter->network cable<-adapter->USB?
How can I get that to work?
It would be simplier to just get a network camera, such as the ones made by axis.com.
Jobst
Robert Heller wrote:
It would be simplier to just get a network camera, such as the ones made by axis.com.
Isn't Axis rather expensive? I've found the Linksys WVC54GCA WiFi camera has worked pretty well for me, at least after I updated the firmware.
On 6/17/2010 1:22 AM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
Hi
I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage.
However, I want to have a couple of cameras a little further away (more than 5 meters).
USB has a limit, I have tried that camera with a longer cable and it does not work ... so I need to route that in a different way. Are there equaly as cheap other moethods? Or can I use USB<-adapter->network cable<-adapter->USB?
How can I get that to work?
Jobst
If you're using them for a security and surveillance solution. A capture card and zoneminder would be a more professional grade solution. Also an all-in-one device like the one found here http://www.nightowlsp.com/products.htm are a great low cost alternative.
On 17/06/2010 17:58, Dan Carl wrote:
A capture card and zoneminder would be a more professional grade solution.
While looking for something similar, but a bit lighter weight I came across http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome recently. Not nearly as feature rich as ZoneMinder, but does most of the basic stuff that I needed - including motion detection, upload to remote, run a live-feed for a browser. Handle multiple cameras from the same machine.
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