[CentOS] cameras and CentOS

Thu Jun 17 12:54:22 UTC 2010
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:22:48 +1000 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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
> 
> 

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