[CentOS] OT hardware question

Fri Jan 31 19:55:31 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 1/31/2014 7:52 AM, 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.
>
> I just setup a Ubiquiti AirCam for fun at home.   these are $99 per
> outdoor grade camera, use power-over-ethernet so there's JUST a single
<snip>

Hmmm... that $99 each camera gets expensive, fast. We use three or four in
several rooms, which is why were were hoping for a package that included
the dvr appliance with cameras. The Speco looks interesting, but I don't
see it anywhere as a package, and, in addition, the only AirCam for CentOS
seems to be from repoforge, and *very* frequently, I see a lot of
conflicts with the base, epel, and rpmfusion packages when I've tried
repoforge. Plus, we're almost exclusively a CentOS shop (which is why I
live here on this list), that would be more to worry 'bout.

        mark, working hard to get the best value for our tax dollars.... <g>