This is why you should never trust some other company with your own surveillance needs. There are plenty of camera + software combinations that can do TCP/IP stuff and you can tinker with it yourself and set it up on your own apache server.
I am sure someone will post with OSS software solutions.
Aside from that, how many people really need web-enabled surveillance? Just record it to HD or have it monitored live in closed-circuit fashion.
Perhaps beacuse a lot of regular people cant even figure out which hole to put the usb camera into? " there are 2, which one does it go into ".
Remember the maket for these things are NOT techies.. ( few products really are, regardless of what many of us like to belive.. )
Why webenabled? Well, a most small business owners want to know what is going on with their 'baby' 24/7. This way they can sit at home and check up on things without driving across town at 2am.
But shouldn't the software include a way to generate a.htaccess file at least? Or warn the user that if they don't create a.htaccess file that anyone can view their camera's output?
Run your own surveillance (Score:2, Interesting)
I am sure someone will post with OSS software solutions.
Aside from that, how many people really need web-enabled surveillance? Just record it to HD or have it monitored live in closed-circuit fashion.
Brushfireb
Re:Run your own surveillance (Score:2)
Remember the maket for these things are NOT techies.. ( few products really are, regardless of what many of us like to belive.. )
Why webenabled? Well, a most small business owners want to know what is going on with their 'baby' 24/7. This way they can sit at home and check up on things without driving across town at 2am.
Re:Run your own surveillance (Score:1)