[ALUG] Webcam as security monitor

[mephi]

I think there's a program called Motion. I've not used it before, I only
know about it because it's included in the Knoppmyth distro.

There's a wiki here: http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: main-bounces at lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces at lists.alug.org.uk]
On Behalf Of Greg Thomas
Sent: 02 December 2007 15:20
To: ALUG
Subject: [ALUG] Webcam as security monitor

Just found an old webcam at the back of a cupboard, plugged it in to
my Ubuntu box, installed Camorama, and woot! it works.

Which set me to wondering. Camorama can be to record a picture from
the webcam every (say) 20 minutes. What I was wondering was is there
is any software out there that records the picture at a set interval,
but only if the webcam image changes (you'd presumably need some sort
of change threshold, to cope with minor changes).

Any thoughts, anyone?

Greg

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