Neurotic 0 Posted March 8, 2009 Hey there, I live in an apartment which is part of a subdivided house. The property is shared with numerous other tenants a few of which are somewhat questionable. Anyway I bought a $20 Microsoft webcam and a 5m usb extension (which is plenty) and installed the camera under the light. I want 3 more webcams running and one looking out to the backyard from my bathroom. The only prob might be night vision as none of the cheap "decent" webcams seem to have them only the cheapo ebay ones. I only need to see a few meters out so don't need anything too advanced. I've installed Active Webcam trial edition and tinkered with the motion detection but its still pretty iffy, especially during the day. I'm running it from my home theatre pc (2.2ghz athlon, 45w, 2gig ram, 750gb hdd). I am considering building a dedicated box (p4 512mb ram?) just for the surveillance and forget about the motion detection and just record everything and review it the night before bed and tell it to make say.. hourly frame grabs for quick reference. Naturally all of this is useless if the thief breaks in a steals my box.. don't have anywhere to "hide" it so I might have to rely on a secondary alarm system with sms alerts, door sensors, etc. Might have to put chains and locks around my entertainment unit and hope for the best! Is there any software that could pickup physical movements? Alert me with a door/window opens? Would save me some time/money. All this needs to be remotely accessible since I'm going overseas in a couple of months for about 3-4 months. Cheers for any help guys! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
