security camera

[Kevin Brown]

A wired camera that I dealt with had the features you listed, but 
performed the motion analysis internally and could FTP the images to a 
server.  From those images I created time-lapse video footage.  The only 
part that required any real CPU effort was the compiling of the static 
jpgs into video files.

> Craig, we use a nice open source package called ZoneMinder for just this
> purpose.  It does a lot more than just grabbing images, but it's a nice
> tool.  The motion detection function requires a lot of CPU power, but
> it's nice to not have to deal with storing 24/7 recordings of nothing
> happening in the warehouse.  There are packages for Fedora and CentOS,
> and I believe I've seen it listed in the Debian packages too.

>> playing with a wireless camera for security which has a built-in web
>> server function. I suppose that with a bit of shell scripting, I can
>> periodically wget http://camera/IMAGE.jpg and write it to disk, move the
>> images to a folder and ultimately tar ball them for posterity. Is there
>> a project that anyone knows of that already does this so I don't have to
>> bother the list with frequent evidence of my lack of shell scripting
>> skills?