Setting up a headless arch box and a web cam as a security cam?

Greenstuff · 2010-01-25 19:35:37

Hey,
I have an old arch box, I have an old webcam. I'd like to set up a camera that'll monitor my room, and record pictures / video only when it detects motion. I looked into a few programs, but most have GUIs and I need to run the program from the command line. Anyone knows good programs for this purpuse?

Thanks.

HashBox · 2010-01-25 21:40:50

I remember using Motion back in the day, it might be a little involved setting up but it is very flexible and should do what you want, http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome

Greenstuff · 2010-01-26 15:27:28

I looked into motion. Problem is my camera doesn't seem to be supported. But maybe I ought to talk to the devs about it. Anyone knows if this project's still developed?

neoxic · 2010-02-01 15:19:35

I'm doing this exact thing, each a little differently.

1st Method: Using a wireless Trendnet camera which ftp's images every few seconds to my server, which uses a perl script I wrote to detect motion (using imagemagick) and scp images with motion to a remote server.

2nd method: Using ffmpeg to stream from both a wireless Trendnet camera and a laptop's internal webcam and using the same perl script as above to detect the motion and scp them to the remote server.

I've been meaning to blog on my solution, if either of these is what you're looking to do it might be the motivation I've needed!

action_owl · 2010-02-02 03:03:58

I'd reccommend trying out xawtv.
I dunno about the motion capture though, maybe you could set something up with openCV?

I used a laser, arduino, and twitter for a similar setup:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Twitter … m-Capture/

Arch Linux

#1 2010-01-25 19:35:37

Setting up a headless arch box and a web cam as a security cam?

#2 2010-01-25 21:40:50

Re: Setting up a headless arch box and a web cam as a security cam?

#3 2010-01-26 15:27:28

Re: Setting up a headless arch box and a web cam as a security cam?

#4 2010-02-01 15:19:35

Re: Setting up a headless arch box and a web cam as a security cam?

#5 2010-02-02 03:03:58

Re: Setting up a headless arch box and a web cam as a security cam?

Board footer