[Klug-general] BBC: Dad builds video baby monitor

[Kevin Groves]

Sounds interesting. I'm well on the way with the home automation 
project. For example now have temp sensors around the house and outside, 
although i theme of what is on this thread I have door sensors in place 
which have proved very handy. And the door bell(s) now text so I know 
when someone is at the front door, what I want next is for the PIR to 
trigger and to add a cam so that door bell/PIR will take a snap and send 
to phone. Quite east by the looks of things.

What would also be cool is an intercom where we can see who is at the 
door in/out of the house and talk to them...  Maybe...

On 10/11/12 18:22, Antonio Mendoza Mendoza wrote:
>
> Hello everybody
> A few years ago I had a break in at home, so I did set up a quite 
> similar system with 2 old webcams and my laptop, using Yawcam software 
> (for Windows), I tried to set up in Linux but failed miserably :(
> It worked pretty good, though with a few glitches.
> Yawcam allows ftp, http, email and remote "surveillance", timed 
> shooting and motion detection.
> Later on time I moved to a different house and set up the same, and 
> worked pretty well while I was on holidays abroad.
> The system was set to take pictures when a movement in the house 
> occurred and also took pictures every few minutes. These pictures were 
> stored in a computer, as well as sent by e-mail to me (I didn't and 
> don't have any kind of smartphone, as that dad from the news).
> Only 1 big issue, I put the cameras pointing to the windows in the 
> living room, which looks at the end of the street, where cars turn 
> around quite often, so my account was flooded with pictures every time 
> a car turned around.
> Another time (again in a new house) my landlady was reported to the 
> Council because the dogs were barking all day when they were on their 
> own. I set a laptop on top of one of the cupboards, with a webcam 
> running Teamviewer to record the dogs and find out if she was right... 
> and she was, but no because of my landlady's dogs, but a friend's of 
> her which was staying at our place during the week. I could remotely 
> see the dogs from my room upstairs :)
> The e
> I think it could be an interesting subject for a meeting.
> Regards you all
> Antonio
>
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