Security Cameras

[Gregory P. Ennis]

Dear List,

This may be a little off topic so please forgive me.

I purchased a Security Camera in order to do some experiments. I have a
WCS-2060 IP CamSecure made by www.level1.com.  I am suspicious that os
of the camera is linux based, but there software is primarily made to
communicate with MS Windows machines.  

Are any of you using any linux based opensource software to monitor
security cameras and their output.  What kind of linux options do we
have?

Greg Ennis

[Mogens Kjaer]

On 06/30/2009 03:41 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
...
>  Are any of you using any linux based opensource software to monitor
>  security cameras and their output.  What kind of linux options do we
>  have? 
yum install zoneminder

Mogens


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[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

On 06/30/2009 09:41 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>  This may be a little off topic so please forgive me.
>
>  I purchased a Security Camera in order to do some experiments. I have a
>  WCS-2060 IP CamSecure made bywww.level1.com.  I am suspicious that os
>  of the camera is linux based, but there software is primarily made to
>  communicate with MS Windows machines.
>
>  Are any of you using any linux based opensource software to monitor
>  security cameras and their output.  What kind of linux options do we
>  have? 
I use motion (http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome), 
which is in the repos.

You can use it with common IP cameras like those from Axis, or with 
analog cameras + a video capture card.

Some IP cameras may be incompatible, depending how tightly the 
manufacturer has tied the camera to the normally-supplied Windows software.


- Mike