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I am looking to purchase a secuirty camera that I would like to connect to my iMac. I have seen some that are wirelesess and only record while there is motion. Does anyone have any experiance with these?
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George
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sorry, no real experience, but i'm considering this software myself...
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Generally the recording software will be what triggers the recording. Most Digital based systems look for a change in pixel color and when enough pixels change that is what tells the system to record. If you are looking for something simple and just sitting at your computer you can try any firewire camera and BTV software as a cheap choice. Otherwise if you are wanting to put the camera farther than 30' from your computer you need to look at a camera that can be wired with composite video and then have an input device of some sort on your computer.
What is the scenerio you wnat to set the camera up for?
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Quicksilver 867, 700mhz iBook, 1st Gen iPod, iSight, Newton 2100, and a 128k Mac. All operating and used on a constant Basis
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Originally posted by brianb:
What is the scenerio you wnat to set the camera up for?
Basically I am looking for a nanny-cam sort of situation. I was looking at the WiFi product from D-Link, but am not clear on if they support the MAC or not.
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=296
Thanks,
George
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looks like the recording software for this camera is Windows only but you should be able to use the live view of the webbrowser without any problem
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Quicksilver 867, 700mhz iBook, 1st Gen iPod, iSight, Newton 2100, and a 128k Mac. All operating and used on a constant Basis
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Try some searches at macupdate.com or versiontracker.com for isight or security camera and you may find some software that you can use with the camera you mention instead of the windows only version it comes with.
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Well, my system is kinda "thrown together", but it works great.
First, is the camera. I selected a 1.2GHz Mini Wireless Night Vision Camera from ComputerGeeks.com (not this exact item). Mine is Color/Infrared with audio.
I pulled an XLR8 InterView I retired years ago for the video capture portion. It's 320x240, but it works fine.
Finally, I am using BTVPro for recording. It supports motion detection as well as any other means of recording video. I use motion detection.
I record 24/7 without issue. The coolest part is that BTVPro timestamps each frame so I have exact data were there an incident to report.
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Thanks, this is the kind of information I was lookig for. -George
Originally posted by GORDYmac:
Well, my system is kinda "thrown together", but it works great.
First, is the camera. I selected a 1.2GHz Mini Wireless Night Vision Camera from ComputerGeeks.com (not this exact item). Mine is Color/Infrared with audio.
I pulled an XLR8 InterView I retired years ago for the video capture portion. It's 320x240, but it works fine.
Finally, I am using BTVPro for recording. It supports motion detection as well as any other means of recording video. I use motion detection.
I record 24/7 without issue. The coolest part is that BTVPro timestamps each frame so I have exact data were there an incident to report.
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