[KLUG Members] Webcam

[Bert]

Adam Elkins wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 14:29, Bert wrote:
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>>With my birthday comming up, I need some advice about webcams (quess why 
>>;-) ). So I searched all the klug messages and found some messages 
>>dating from 07/2002.
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>><snip>
>>Bruce Smith wrote:
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>>>>>I recently got a USB webcam working under Linux
>>>>>I picked up a:  CT6840- Creative Labs Video Blaster Webcam III - USB 1.0
>>>>>for $15.00 and it works great under Linux.
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>>>>>          
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>>The price is nice but what application can I use best? I had no luck 
>>with usb so far. The only device I got working with usb is the mice...
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>>I would like to make 'snapshots', every xx seconds, do a diff and with 
>>not enough difference only record that nothing has changed. So most 
>>likely the application is best command line based. Writing the 
>>application myself is an acceptable option as long I can get the images 
>>from the usb interface. 
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>I've had a lot of luck with this http://motion.sourceforge.net/.
>It will do motion, and record when motion is detected, and eith email
>you the video, mail a notification, and or send you a text message to a
>cell phone.
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>I use 3 IBM USB webcams for this... Their like 20 bucks.
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>Adam E.
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This looks just like what I had in mind, thanks !

Bert.


Thanks to you too Adam W. !