Surveillance Video on Intranet?

[elcano]

I had read the article in the third link. For that reason is that I'm always asking about the camera's real low light sensitivity (without IR illumination). If I can't find anything then I'll buy a camera without LEDs and install indirect LEDs. I plan to move the baby to its own room in a few months.

I want to keep the room of my baby as dark as posible for several reasons. One is about the day/night cycle - lots of implications in sleep patterns. The second is to prevent the fear of darkness. That's what my psychology doctor says (my wife), and worked for the older boy.

 

[IVB]

So did that AverMedia review ever happen?

Wondering if I have any serious non-kodicomm options. It's crashed on me 3x in 2 days, wondering if that's my non-intel mobo or some other issue. It didn't crash before when I only had the 1 camera hooked up, then I reformatted the HD/reinstalled the OS.

I'll have 8 cameras, don't care about motion sensing, ability to view via PDA would be outstanding.

If I could have server software that allowed me to re-use the PC for video rendering (ie, don't take over the PC like Diginet does), that'd be the deciding vote all on it's own, as right now i'm sacrificing a PC for CCTV.

 

[electron]

I was in the middle of seriously reviewing the AverMedia hardware when lightning hit my house. The card is fine, but since my camera and all other equipment blew up, I don't have much to test Hopefully I will be back up and running in the next few weeks. From what I could see so far, the software interface is pretty slick, turns a PC into a secure surveillance station, and the card supports relaying the video signal to another TV using the onboard output.

 

[IVB]

Does the software take over the PC?

Wondering if I could use it to render Theatertek and SageTV at the same time that it's performing CCTV duties.

 

[electron]

It can run minimized in tray without any problems, or you can run it full screen, locked down (so no one can close the app on you).

 

[IVB]

Cool. Now off to do the ROI to determine if I got with:

Option 1) Stick with current kodicomm card, buy another cheap $300 HTPC to be a 2nd SDTV video render
Option 2) Spend $500 net (Get 2 Avermedia cards at $350/each, minus $200 which is what i'd probably get for the kodicomm plus motion sensor cards) and do it all on one pc.

Much too much to think about. Damn Theatertek/IP driver, and SageTV/web browser ability...