[G5] IP Cameras

[Nick Scalise]

On Mar 12, 2006, at 1:23 PM, David DelMonte wrote:
> Hi. does anyone have experience with a reasonably inexpensive IP  
> camera (used for security). i have found a number of them but they  
> usually do not have drivers for macs.

A recent summary from the MacManagers list:

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Lars Schou
>
> The clear winner for a platform-agnostic camera was Axis:
>
> <http://www.axis.com/>
>
> Scott C Jensen gets extra geek points for his setup:
>
> One of the cool things about the [discontinued Axis 1200] cameras  
> is that they
> have a I/O port on the back that allows the camera to monitor a on/off
> condition from some other system.  I used a $5 relay from Radio  
> Shack to link
> the cameras to our alarm system, so that now when the alarm goes  
> off, the
> cameras start FTPing their images to a server 5 times a second.   
> It's a quick
> and easy way to get a basic record of what caused the alarm.  And  
> the newer
> 210s have built-in motion detection, but I haven't had a chance to  
> try it yet
>
> Axis has a lot of different models, some wired, some wireless and  
> so on. I
> am not sure which one we'll go with at this point, but at least we're
> settled on the brand.
>
> Also, a handful of respondents recommended SecuritySpy:
>
> http://www.securityspy.com
>
> which is a Mac-only app that allows simultaneous monitoring of  
> multiple
> cameras, time lapse recording, motion detection and a bunch of  
> other cool
> stuff that's probably overkill for this particular situation.
>
> It's $50-500, depending on the number of cameras. One respondent  
> noted that
> while he liked SecuritySpy, several emails to the developer asking for
> support had gone unanswered.

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