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It’s
actually a very simple webcam solution. It all started when a couple
of neighbourhood kids in my area started
to act stupid around my house. It was all from shooting balls at my
door and annoying my dog. It
just had to stop, kids being what they are, just kids. I had to make
a proper solution not involving any violence
or aggravations. So it went to this. First
I was aware or a program called Pryme, pryme
was a simple freeware webcam utitlity with
the brilliant programmed
“movement detector” this little thing actually made simple webcams to
security cameras. Later
on after testing this solution on a server, it did the job good enough
to monitor my door for atleast a day
until it crashed. Some months after the developer released another version
called TinCam. Much more stable
and allot mot functions. Easy enough, you can set it to ftp pictures
to a page, send you emails with pictures
and so on. This opened allot of opportunities for me, I made some batchscripts
to clean out the storage
where are the log picture files where stored, made a Security Cam server
on a laptop (because if It
where to a blackout like in a Mission Impossible movie, this server
could keep on going for 3 hours more
on battery life). I’ve been using this strategy for a few years now.
Configured so that the first camera that
monitors my door send out a notice signal on the speakers when someone
is in front of it, another camera
monitoring my street so that I can see where the person came from and
later went away… This
is how it looks…
The
server and the camera from my house…
The
door outside…
It
even prevents me from getting off my chair when I’m working when I see
that it’s the Jehovahs at the door (no
sir, no propaganda here thank you)… The
other one is a friend of mine, actually the boss for “codebox.se”.
Here
is another solution I found recently to this home security solution;
a portable alarm that triggers when it detect
motion in it’s area. Perfect for this solution if someone is breaking
an entry. You can’t get safer than this? … So as you can see, the possibility of security like this is endless, and I’m currently working on a car security solution where a GPRS solutions send out a distress call with a picture of the thief stealing your car at that very moment. There
is yet more to come here about that. If
you are interested about this project and want something similar done,
just press contact and you’re a mail, phone, message
away from a painless security option. |
