RE: CCTV cameras - feed to PC s/w

["Paul" <p-gale@xxxxxxx>]

That's interesting - what Mod did you do to the Tivo? I just modded it so
that it doesn't need a sub but in my short playing with it, couldn't find a
way to start/stop it (had to set manual recurring record blocks of 2 hours
each) - I'd be really interested to find out how I can manually start/stop
recording without current guide data (or am I missing something???)



Yes - colour cams seem a bit dodgy at the smaller sizes. My low lux cams
are excellent.



I'll have a look at the s/w.



Thanks,



Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Martin [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 May 2003 18:38
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CCTV cameras - feed to PC s/w



Hi Paul

I have a camera switcher connectted to a modded TIVO, my camera's have
PIR's and are also connected to HV. HV sends the command to TIVO to
start recording on the Video channel and therefore catches the event
prior to movement since TIVO is currently running approx 3secs behind
real time.

I also fitted a colour cam today its OK but of course not so good in bad
light. Its also all connected to a card in my HA machine which captures
images based on the video motion detection software, excellent for
reviewing whats been happening without having to mess with TIVO.

You might like to try the software www.visiongs.de but to work with
multiple camera's it needs a switcher.

HTH
Cheers
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:p-gale@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 May 2003 16:45
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] CCTV cameras - feed to PC s/w


OK, it's so dead here today I decided to finally put up my CCTV camera's
(4x low lux B&W IR type and a colour Comfort doorphone cam).

I've got an Extron MAV-128 video matrix switcher and I'm going to feed
them into that for the time being. I've also got a Tivo modded for CCTV
recording (but only constant roll-over recording - not ideal). I really
want to record any movement from any of the 5 camera's onto a PC. I'm
looking for s/w and ways of doing this. I guess there are two ways of
doing this:

1)      fit PIR's with each camera (which I will be doing in some of the
locations anyway) and have Comfort/HV/ACE switch the active zone to the
PC which would then record via some simple software (what s/w???)
2)      Use some kind of multi-input camera card (as discussed many
times on this list) and let that decide which zone has been triggered by
it's software

Any thoughts?

Paul.



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