[CentOS] security cameras

[Thomas Dukes]

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.
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