I wanted some form of monitoring from the home setup of something. Not really sure why but I sometimes get a bit worried when we are away from home.
So I picked up a Tesco Value Webcam and found the rather good Yawcam software after lots of searching. Good webcam software is hard to find. I now have, for less than £6, a motion sensitive security camera. It works too, bit needs some tweaking to get it right, I had 40 emails from it today. Oh yeah, that’s what it does, emails me when it detects motion and runs a web server that I can connect to to check in on it any time.
Todo: make it run through IIS, make it less sensitive, work out a way to activate it when we leave the house.
Subscribe
Twitter
Email
Simon is an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft UK, everything here is his own thoughts and opinion.
go to the motion detection view and click the setting tab – then choose a specific area of your image rather than the whole thing – if you’re monitoring a door you only need to monitor the handle not the whole door to see it open – now adjust your sensitivity & tolerance appropriately by using a smaller area you can look at a higher sensitivity and lower tolerance without catching shadows leaves in the wind etc