[GTALUG] a simple security solution?

Alvin Starr alvin at netvel.net
Mon Apr 15 22:50:21 EDT 2019


Building your own camera from the ground up is good if your into 
hardware hacking.

You may get more millage from buying a cheap camera and replacing the 
firmware.

The Wyze Cam mentioned has a project called OpenIPC

Amazon has a DCS-936L (about $70) that claims to have push notifications 
and if you look through the manual (

ftp://ftp.dlink.ca/PRODUCTS/DCS-936L/DCS-936L_REVA_MANUAL_1.02_EN.PDF

) you will find that it has a place to send the motion detected snapshots.

Once again you will be asking yourself questions.

1) How much work do I want to just for the pure joy of doing the work.

2) How much work am I willing to do to save a few dollars.

3) Do I care if Amazon/Apple/Google know about my home camera so that I 
can use their app on my phone.


On 4/15/19 9:40 PM, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
> Clifford!
> That seems amazing!
> Thanks for providing the resource.  what is nice about  it, as far as 
> I can tell,  is that once the steps are followed things run on auto 
> pilot...might   only need  help  once.
> Thanks,
> Kare
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, Clifford Ilkay via talk wrote:
>
>> This sounds like a job for the Raspberry Pi! See these articles: <
>> https://www.bouvet.no/bouvet-deler/utbrudd/building-a-motion-activated-security-camera-with-the-raspberry-pi-zero>, 
>>
>> <
>> https://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Motion-Detection-Security-Camera/ 
>>
>>> .
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Clifford Ilkay
>>
>> +1 647-778-8696
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 9:06 PM Karen Lewellen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Would I be guessing  correctly that the hard wired  option does not need
>>> Ethernet, simply powered by electricity?
>>> Also, from a prior note does not the ip camera include something to
>>> direct
>>> the  data somewhere?  The video analytic  idea might help, teach it to
>>> ignore   me opening my front door, but flag anyone else.
>>> My sense about ip cameras is that something  must control the camera.
>>> Alvin's idea  about uploading footage to  an ftp  caught my attention
>>> because  that process might be straight forward from a screen reader
>>> standpoint.  I cannot monitor the footage, which is why I am hoping 
>>> for a
>>> notification process.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, James Knott via talk wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 04/15/2019 04:33 PM, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
>>>>> again a dictionary question, what is poe?
>>>>
>>>> Power over Ethernet.  It used power from the network switch, carried
>>>> over the Ethernet cable, to power some device, such as a camera.  I use
>>>> it here to power my WiFi access point.
>>>>
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