RE: CCTV Surveillance Software

["Stainton-James, Mark (London)" <stainmar@xxxxxxx>]

Graham,

Have you tried homewatcher  www.homewatcher.com  it does every
thing on your
list - but there are pros and cons (see below). Personally I am still on
the
look out for something better although have stuck with this for the past
18
months now.  You also might want to check out gotcha - which is a
similar
product.

Pros:

Motion sensitive
Select areas of picture to ignore
Works well with sunlight/algorithm for clouds passing
Options to store local or ftp jpg / avi files
Will time stamp images and can outline the area of detection on the
image
Can also be set up upload at regular intervals
Works with multiple cams
I use it to launch a homeseer event on detection
It is cheap & reliablish (although see below
Automatically creates nice looking web pages (template totally
customizable)

Cons:

Support is virtually non existent from the developer
There is a small memory leak so you need to restart it every few days
I have found it to be quite processor intensive
After ~200 pictures have been uploaded it seems to get confused with
file
names so there has to be some manual deletion



-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Kiff [mailto:graham.kiff@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 23 October 2002 23:04
To: UK HomeAutomation ListServer
Subject: [ukha_d] CCTV Surveillance Software

Just installed a new wired camera and am looking for recommendations on
reliable surveillance software.

My requirements:
      Software motion detection
      Save to AVI
      Save to JPG/BMP
      Upload images to FTP
      Timestamp all images & avi
      Must work with WDM capture device (ATI
All-In-Wonder), NOT VfW

Cheers
Graham




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