[xawtv and webcam looping]

David J Patrick davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Mon Dec 22 16:08:49 UTC 2003


GDHough wrote:

>In the last year we've had the auto vandalized twice and have been relieved of 
>three bicycles. I've put motion lights and sound triggers and a new dog all 
>around this little flat. Recently we've discovered irrefutable proof that the 
>perpetrators may actually be from next door.
>
>I am building custom MountainBikes and need to know my items are safe in the 
>home. My solution (since we're already being cased) was to do a little casing 
>of my own. And without getting into a drawn out justification, this is what 
>we've done.
>
>Since the suspects are young, male, jobless, social misfits, they have all 
>freaking day to study our routines. They know when the kids are in school and 
>we are at work. I have set up a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000. The darn thing 
>worked right out of the box. Using 'webcam', a part of xawtv I am able to 
>grab images and ftp them to the webserver. I also archive the images locally 
>and with mencoder, condense them into AVI's. The beauty of this setup is I 
>can monitor our vulnerable backyard entry from any browser in near real-time 
>(currently a 15 second grab). Unfortunately, the xawtv program 'webcam' does 
>not do what it is supposed to do and my work-around is generating big logs 
>and consuming too much cpu on the workstation.
>
>1) webcam doesn't loop at all like it's supposed to.
>
>2) SSH transfer option could not be performed without manually entering a 
>password. I even set up all the authorized keys and it still prompts me for a 
>passphrase - I suspect an 'expect' syntax error, but I at least feel more 
>secure...
>
>3) ProFtp works but again, webcam refuses to keep-alive the connection. My 
>solution was to create a script and run it from CRON. Now in addition to the 
>ftp logons and transfers in /var/log/messages, I'm getting gobs of mail from 
>CRON.
>
>Has anyone had success with xawtv and the webcam looping utility?
>
>farmer6re9
>  
>
Have you considered http://gspy.sourceforge.net/ ?
gspy is designed for webcam based security and may offer fewer headaches
YMMV
djp

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