Speaking of hardware....
Aug. 13th, 2003 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tyggerjaiLinux and Webcams.
I have a couple of always-on boxes that would benefit greatly from webcams, IMHO - including one that has a nice view of the street outside the front of our place, which I might as well pipe straight to the Collingwood Police Station, to save them the effort of dropping in to look at the video captures every week [0].
So loooking at various sites, I see the price has bottomed out at about $80-100, which is where it was a while back, so presumably the quality is now improving while the base price remains stable. Anyone have any personal recommendations for webcams under Linux, or does pretty much everything work these days?
Apropos (vaguely) of which, SAGE-AU members can relax secure in the knowledge that I'm not using Linux for an enterprise level solution, and that they're a pack of wankers.
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[0] No it hasn't happened to me yet (unlike Orlock at Gore St), but I can think of 2 occasions when a webcam storing 10 minutes worth of capture would have helped the police immensely. And that's just the last six months at times when I've been home.
I have a couple of always-on boxes that would benefit greatly from webcams, IMHO - including one that has a nice view of the street outside the front of our place, which I might as well pipe straight to the Collingwood Police Station, to save them the effort of dropping in to look at the video captures every week [0].
So loooking at various sites, I see the price has bottomed out at about $80-100, which is where it was a while back, so presumably the quality is now improving while the base price remains stable. Anyone have any personal recommendations for webcams under Linux, or does pretty much everything work these days?
Apropos (vaguely) of which, SAGE-AU members can relax secure in the knowledge that I'm not using Linux for an enterprise level solution, and that they're a pack of wankers.
sol.
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[0] No it hasn't happened to me yet (unlike Orlock at Gore St), but I can think of 2 occasions when a webcam storing 10 minutes worth of capture would have helped the police immensely. And that's just the last six months at times when I've been home.
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Date: 2003-08-12 09:56 pm (UTC)His point was, apparently, that right now it can be a bit painful doing SAN/clustering with Linux, not that it's totally unsuited to "enterprise" use. The reporter expanded somewhat on his/her own.
The guy who made the remarks is a Linux advocate, after all.
Ah.
Date: 2003-08-12 10:33 pm (UTC)It did, I must admit, confirm my opinion of SAGE-AU generally, though I had thoguht they were a little more linux-friendly. Do you have a URL?
And any thoughts on linux webcams?
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Re: Ah.
Date: 2003-08-12 11:52 pm (UTC)Andrew's comments were posted to the SAGE-AU list. I'm not sure that I should re-post them verbatim, but the main area his comments related to were SAN/clustering setups where his experience has been that it's a whole lot easier with the Veritas tools -- less work, less downtime.
He also commented on the automatic memory management stuff -- he'd like to be able to over-ride that in some cases, e.g., where there's 8GB of RAM in a machine and the application doesn't call for a 4GB buffer.
The article reads as being rather senastionalist to me, taking some admissions of current flaws made by an advocate as some sort of major pronouncement of long-term unsuitability. His points seemed pretty reasonable to me.
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Date: 2003-08-12 10:02 pm (UTC)Apropos (vaguely) of which, SAGE-AU members can relax secure in the knowledge that I'm not using Linux for an enterprise level solution, and that they're a pack of wankers.
Please elaborate on this.. I was thinking about joining SAGE this month...
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Date: 2003-08-12 10:37 pm (UTC)sol.
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Date: 2003-08-12 10:11 pm (UTC)> in the knowledge that I'm not using Linux for an enterprise level
> solution, and that they're a pack of wankers.
Yes, wankers they are. I cancelled my SAGE-AU membership about 4 years ago because I was embarrased to be associated with such a clueless bunch of tossers.
Speaking of cops...
Date: 2003-08-12 10:15 pm (UTC)I can think of half a dozen times since I moved in.
What we really need is one of those cards that take 4 composite inputs simultaneously. 4 cameras... Front door, Back door, Bikes, Gate.
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Date: 2003-08-12 10:44 pm (UTC)Why bother with a special card when there's a machine in each room ? Kittling, laptop, sphinx (hough sphinx isn't 24/7) and Ben's room. And one out your room for better coverage. Then just an aggregator to display them. And remote pan/tilt, evidently....
Motion triggered lights for the back, probably hooked into the actual lights out there....
Next weekend, then?
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Or, in fact....
Date: 2003-08-12 11:08 pm (UTC)Anyone know what the maximum length for USB2 cables is?
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Re: Or, in fact....
Date: 2003-08-13 02:18 am (UTC)5 metres! But we can use USB<->UTP ethernet microservers for this!
Or, for something really fucked up... shorthaul asyncronous 10Mbps coax modems. (and yes, I do have some.. buried in the shed at dads place)
Re: Or, in fact....
Date: 2003-08-13 07:32 pm (UTC)sol.
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