There are plenty of inexpensive web-based surveillance cams out there, Ehren. I don’t have any experience with them, though.
Things like:
Thomas P. Carter, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1322
From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:56 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MSUNAG] home webcam surveillance
Hi,
Pardon the influx of posts from me, I’ve been thinking about this stuff for a while and would like some input but have been really busy and every time I thought about them they got pushed away by something else!
I would really like to have a webcam and a small pc at home function as a extremely basic surveillance system. I had something like this running a long time ago but whatever software I used I either cant find or is defunct by now. What I would like is very basic, the most important is to be able to view the camera from the web, any functions beyond that would be just nice added bonuses.
I’d prefer the software to be freeware but something that is inexpensive would be ok as well. Has anyone used anything like this before?
Thanks!
Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
Windows Systems Administrator
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
1209 A Biomed Phys Sci
517-884-5469