Re: Compact cheap "surveilance" camera

[Ventura <accordion@xxxxxxx>]

her is a search url for new-egg that gives you
2 different, decent, inexpensive
internet/network/computer-browser/record to hard drive/
motion sensing video cams... one wired one wireless

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?SrchInDesc=900&Page=1&bop=AND&Description=30%2D115&Submit=SUGGESTED

you need to connect it to a cheap, crappy spare computer
with a big hard drive for storage or to the computer
network in the club (if there is one) if the club
has a hi-speed internet line, you can monitor the
video feed anytime you want (so you'll know the doors
are closed)

simple, easy, and after the problem is solved you can
re-use the camera at home or anywhere else there is
a computer and a need for an extra pair of eyes

Ciao

Ventura

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?SrchInDesc=900&Page=1&bop=AND&Description=30%2D115&Submit=SUGGESTED

bitsyboffin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> A club I am a member of has a problem, members keep leaving the club's
> buildings unlocked, unalarmed and even with the doors open on occasion.
>  All the members are of course entitled to use the facilities when they
> please, they pay for it after all, but the trouble arises because the
> last person leaves for the day and either forgets to lock up, or thinks
> somebody else is still around.  It's only through pure luck we havn't
> been fleeced already.

>
> So what I'm considering is a compact and reasonably cheap solution to
> have a time lapse series of digital images taken, ideally, a looped
> recording so it can just overwrite old images as it fills up.  That way
> when somebody discovers the doors open I can grab the device and have a
> look to find who was last there and give them an ear bashing.
>
> Something like the "L'espion S" (
> http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/7886/ ) but with a much
> larger capacity so it can take and store an image every, say, 120
> seconds for a week, and even better if it had "night vision".  Doesn't
> need to be colour (8 bit greyscale is fine, only need to identify the
> people passing through, not judge thier fashion sense) or high
> resolution (probably could get away with 320x240, but 640x480 would be
> better).  Battery powered would be best, but I guess it could be
> plugged in if necessary, but we don't want to have it connected to a
> computer that then has to run 24/7, it would only be connected to the
> PC when we need to review the images.
>
> Anybody seen such an item?
>