Re: Advice needed on CCTV

[Bruno Prior <bruno@xxxxxxx>]

I'm very impressed with your software, especially as it is linux-based 
and uses a browser frontend. But:

1. What sort of processing power do you need per camera for USB cameras
and BTTV-connected cameras (presumably less for the latter)?

2. If you are using BTTV-connected cameras, how do you connect more than
a couple? Don't you quickly run into clashes and run out of slots and 
IRQs for cards?

3. If you are using USB cameras, how do you get round the cable-length 
limitations? You don't really want to be limited to putting your 
security cameras within 5 metres of the computer.

I had originally planned to do something like this for my barn 
conversion, but have resigned myself to the more expensive option of 
using network cameras. If you have figured out how to do this without a
battery of linux computers, you could save me a lot of money.

Cheers,

Bruno


Philip Coombes wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I don't want people to think this is the only reason I'm here since I
did
> mention this
> in my introduction last week. But if you have a spare PC you can turn
into a
> Linux
> box you could do worse than trying ZoneMinder ( http://www.zoneminder.com )
> which  I wrote originally for myself for precisely this kind of
thing after
> my garage
> was burgled.



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