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.
.
[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.