[PLUG] Open Source - Home Security Cameras

Mon Apr 28 22:18:26 UTC 2014

There is another similar project designed for monitoring/alarm systems
called motion.
http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> No problem. Back when I lived in Tampa, FL,  we had a issue with the
> offspring of a neighbor using the mailboxes as drops for drugs. I put
> up a camera but did not have a way to capture the video, I started to
> look for a open source solution, and found ZM. That was about 12 yrs
> ago, I have been using it ever since. I have seen it used for all kinds
> of novel things, one guy (and his neighbors) over in the UK had a issue
> with a person driving at excessive speed through the area, all of them
> had young children, but they could not get the police to do anything
> about it, as I recall he used ZM to not only ID the car but to obtain a
> reasonable estimate of speed on the vehicle, and I believe they were
> able to obtain relief with the aid of the video captures. I also had a
> neighbor have a break in, one of my cameras captured the vehicle
> entering and leaving the property, the sheriff  asked for more video
> and in the end I gave them the last 6 months of video capture, I do
> not know if they found the guy, but we were able to see that he was
> driving a Jeep Cherokee and he had a large tat on the left arm. He
> was also rather obese. ZM captures each frame as a JPG, law
> enforcement really likes that format.
>
> Yes ZoneMinder is fun to play around with, or get serious and cap-
> ture some serious video.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Michael Ewan <mhewan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > On 04/06/14 09:00, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > > I am new to the list, have been living here in Kalama WA
> > > now for two years, I have been using ZoneMinder for over
> > > 10 years. I use it here in the glass plant, and also I have
> > > a server (not installed) which I brought from my home in
> > > Tampa when we moved here.
> > >
> > > I use all IP cameras on it and it works great. When I lived
> > > in Tampa one of my amateur radio friends who is a com-
> > > mericial security systems guy told me that ZoneMinder
> > > had things that only very expensive DVR products have,
> > > and I have used it to do all sort of detection things.
> > >
> > > Take a look at it:
> > > www.zoneminder.com
> > >
> > > It is VERY flexible and of course ALL open source. There
> > > is a large community. I am running it on a very BIG box
> > > her (8 xeon 24G memory server because I had it and I
> > > expect to expand the thing) but you can run it on most
> > > anything that you can get your hands on in this day and
> > > age. It likes a lot of memory and a 500G Hd will keep 8
> > > cameras with 6 months of history easy.
> > >
> > > I run all IP cameras though it can do both IP and analogue
> > > cams. I usually set the cameras up on a 1gb island lan
> > > so i am not routing video over a shared resource, but if
> > > you are only sending a few images every once and a while
> > > you can try your hand at sharing your lan. the only part
> > > that needs to be a gb link is between the DVR and the
> > > switch, most cameras are 100mb, Make sure that the
> > > switch has enough space so it does not block if you get
> > > several cameras being hit at the same time.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Tyrell Jentink <tyrell at jentink.net>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> I won't speak to the subject of hardware or recording software,
> because
> > I
> > >> have no experience with either... But for cloud storage, just about
> > >> anything can store encrypted files. You can encrypt the video archives
> > and
> > >> sync them to Dropbox, and there ain't no one watching them without
> your
> > >> decryption key.
> > >>
> > >> And if you set it to auto delete at a sane interval, you should be
> able
> > to
> > >> keep the total storage size on the cloud pretty reasonable (and in
> turn,
> > >> cheap) as well.
> > >>
> > >> I would personally be tempted to NOT have a streaming server with
> > >> associated holes in my firewall, and instead rely souly on whatever
> > cloud
> > >> service I ended up using to access the recordings. That way, IF you
> > trust
> > >> the encryption on the files, the only security risk is equivalent to
> > basic
> > >> web browsing.
> > >>
> > >> NEW QUESTION:
> > >>
> > >> Home security cameras and Linux:
> > >>
> > >> I often wonder about networked home security cameras with an ability
> to
> > >> stream to internet or cloud storage in to preserve evidence out of
> reach
> > >> of the miscreants harming one's property.
> > >>
> > >> The advantage of open source (in that it is inspectable by many
> > >> disinterested persons) is that users can be more confident that there
> > >> are either no software backdoors built in and possibly that if any
> > >> hardware backdoors are discovered, that there maybe software patches
> > >> which available to them.
> > >>
> > >> Otherwise you might get THIS:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> http://www.latinospost.com/articles/25613/20130815/video-baby-monitor-hacked-texas-foreign-man-who-called-toddler.htm
> > >>> So - is anyone playing around with home security using remote storage
> > of
> > >>> surveillance video which is secure from unauthorized access?
> > >>> (Including where a lawful private citizen wishes to resist access by
> > the
> > >>> data hosting company, or by lower levels of government?)
> > >>>
> > >>> - G
> > >>>
> > >>>
> >
> > Thanks for the great information and welcome to the community. Although
> > I do not have a current need for this kind of security is nice to know
> > that it exists in open source.
> >
> >
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