Check bluecherry.net I've have for Topica cameras running for over three years. No problems and good people to deal with. Eddie > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Nico Kadel-Garcia > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:50 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] security cameras > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Always Learning > <centos at g7.u22.net> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 18:04 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > > > >> TCP/IP cameras would work with any OS, most just FTP or > whatever the > >> pictures to a webserver you provide, or they run their own > server and > >> you can wget the pics off them. but I've never seen any > IP cameras > >> I'd call really cheap. Panasonic makes a nice line of them, some > >> even have remote pan/zoom via a http interface. > > > > Try Ebay especially the Chinese, including Hong Kong, > suppliers. For > > example compared to the English prices the Chinese prices are much > > cheaper. However one has to wait 2 to 3 weeks for postal delivery. > > > > Delivery to the USA is usually quicker than to England. The Chinese > > preferred payment currency is USD. > > Been there, done that. You're often much better off with > known brands, like Logitech, for simple webcams on your > existing server. I've used this effectively for rack security > in a datacenter: as long as you're not polling the webcams > constantly, they're not too bad of a bandwidth pig, either. > They've been around long enough to be stable and workable in > Linux, as well. > > If you want a full-blown remote TCP monitoring system, look at Axis. > They're historically very Linux compatible, they have all the > features you might want, and while they're not cheap they > have all the features you might need. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos