[ale] Motion Detecting Cameras

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Holmquist wrote:
> Hmm I've seen some windows software like this, the software would
> compare each frame to the next, and if there was any major diffrence,
> it would record the picture. This software also could upload the
> images to a FTP server, and make some HTML pages that would let you
> see what was happening even if you are not home. It used USB webcams
> for this (not sure if other types of cameras would work...) I forgot
> the name of this software, but search downloads.com for camera
> security or something similiar. too bad it's windows :(

Why bother?  You can do all you've suggested above freely on Linux. 
Motion does the capture.  There are webcam packages to do the html.

I had mine set up to do just this over a year ago.  It also enabled you 
to snap an image from the webpage as well, and it would present it.

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