[geeks] Infared camera monitoring

[Matthew Poertner]

This is what I use and it works great (though, not wireless):

http://www.zoneminder.com/

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SEC800A&cat=VID

(only 4 ports on that card work under linux but you can add multiple cards)

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=55263

night vision only works on a short range - but works great.

Hope this helps,
Cheers!
Matt

On 11/3/05, Atom <rescue at port11.net> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:27:52AM -0500, Aaron Finley wrote:
> >> I would like to set up a wireless camera monitoring system using cheap
> >> and
> >> surplus components.
> >
> > Even though some people here still hate them for the pop-up ads a few
> > years
> > ago, you can't really beat http://www.x10.com. Their wired and wireless
> > camera stuff is even cheaper on eBay..
>
> X10's image quality sucks. Barly can make out stuff. Best bet would be get
> IR CCD Cameras (semi good quality, non X10). Then get a quad bus pci
> encoder card and some DVR software.
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