We control 20+ cameras with a single CentoOS server running zoneminder: http://www.zoneminder.com/ Just buy cheap cameras that have one of the interfaces zoneminder supports. We use continuos sftp upload (1fps, no sound). Motion detection is way more superior in zoneminder then any built-in solution on the camera itself, so motion detection on the cameras is disabled. To get more fps and sound you may have to use some other interface but it may require more computing power. -- Peter On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:33 AM, <tdukes at palmettoshopper.com> wrote: > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [CentOS] Motion Detecting Camera > From: Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein at yahoo.com> > Date: Sat, February 01, 2014 7:27 am > To: "centos at centos.org" <centos at centos.org> > > mark 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. > > I was in Costco (USA warehouse store) and saw a Philips LED display, > Camera, Recorder, that was motorized. The camera followed the movement > across the front of it, and could snapshot to a memory chip. It was > under $80.00 for the ensemble. The floor model worked well. > > If you do not require realtime recording to a hard disk, then this item > may be a reasonable cost solution. > > > > > Regards > > Leslie > > Mr. Leslie Satenstein > SENT FROM MY OPEN SOURCE LINUX SYSTEM. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > Checkout bluecherry.net > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >