On 31/01/2014 15:52, m.roth at 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. Looking down the thread, probably not what you want to hear since it runs on Windows, and it's not an "appliance", more DIY, however http://www.ispyconnect.com/ Is "free" and works really well. Feature list is everything you'd expect from a surveillance system. We use cheap (<£40) IP camera's like http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wireless-camera-Pan-Tilt-2-ways/dp/B00432J56G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1391252923&sr=8-2 in our DC. However, with this, the chose is yours since the list of supported cameras is as long as your arm. We have this running on a very old core duo 2 PC, with 2 GB of ram (Win 7) ; with 8 cameras and motion detect running. Works a treat, and has done for 2 yrs+ Only downside is you need a subscription if you want to monitor outside your LAN, but I don't see that requirement from you. D