On 2019-02-09 8:25 a.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
Greetings
I am looking into using a security cam to observe animal behavior in an area.
So I would like to use a camera that is IR capable to 30 m but what I'm not finding is anything that I can run on Linux - - - just M$ is listed.
Has anyone out there played with security cams that might be able to help?
TIA
Dee
I'm in the process of building a system for my house, and local and SD Card recording was key. I've settled on Reolink RLC-420 cameras (https://reolink.com/product/rlc-420/). I got the first one working with Zoneminder already, though I still need to tune the config (going to do that after I finish running the wires). Here's a sample video I took while testing; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lFlD1ZflUY Good IR, good picture quality, weak microphone, but it at least has one. Works on android for recording on the phone/tablet as well. For Zoneminder, I installed it fine on CentOS 7. It was not the simplest setup, but that's because of how feature-full ZM is. I read the README though and had no trouble. The camera itself is all metal construction, which surprised me. I picked up Sandisk high-endurance SDCards, 64GB (https://www.amazon.ca/SanDisk-Endurance-Monitoring-Adapter-SDSDQQ-064G-G46A/...). I've not used these before, but I've installed one in my dashcam for my car and in all the cameras. So we'll see in a year or so how they hold up. This isn't a long term or in-depth results or review, but it's what I've found so far. digimer -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould