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Really all I need is an outdoor still image camera, ip capable, poe preferred, that will allow me to display the "viewfinder" in my html page, trigger the "shutter" by clicking a button on the web page and store the image on a network drive. Don't need to record video. Any ideas?

Looking for some direction as I've no experience with CCTV systems. I need to position a camera outdoors over a truck scale to view the vehicle as it stops on the scale and capture a jpg image of whatever is sitting on the scale. Capturing the image would be initiated by the scale operator running software on a PC. Ideally I would like to embed this monitoring and capture function in our software that's run using a web browser (html, javascript, php). We have to capture jpgs and associate them immediately with a transaction on our system. PC is currently running Windows XP. Any suggestions or direction is greatly appreciated.

We ordered an Dahua ESIP-MP2-DM1 to tinker with. There is in fact a snapshot button on the web console for the camera, but it uses an activex control. We are trying to find a way to use an http request as an alarm rather than resorting to activex (and thus constricting ourselves to Internet Explorer). Has anyone ever done something like this specifically using an http request (i.e. calling http:///cgi-bin/getImage)?

The product descriptions state that an activity (capture snapshot or recording) can be triggered by an alarm. Examples of these alarms are always physical devices, i.e, motion detectors. Can the alarm be programmatically triggered by a button on a web page? If so, does anyone have an example of how this is done. thx.

Can't seem to find much info on the Dahua 3MP. Does anyone know if this is a current model or has it been replaced? I don't need to record video, just monitor and take a "snapshot", store it in a specified location on the network. POE would be nice.

Thanks for the quick feedback. Any suggestions on cameras and/or information on types of cameras, what features I would need, etc. Again, I'm not a cctv guy, just a business applications programmer looking to learn.