Privacy lock question for apartment door

[SFGOON]

Do please a dear and tell me exactly how this was achieved. I need one of those things. Is it silent? If not, coulda silent one be made?

[Kodack]

Off the shelf DCS3000 security webcam, an always on interenet connection, one motion detector, some wiring, and a cellphone that accepts emails with attatchments.

Out of the box the Dlink security camera can detect motion, but only in it's field of view. I added an aftermarket infrared motion detecor that works even in a dark room. I set up a connection through my firewall so that when I get a page about motion I can login and pan the camera around my apartment to see what's going on in real time. IF it's serious I can call the police, if it's a maintenance guy putting his feet up on my couch I have photographic proof.

the hard part was configuring everything to work properly and wiring the motion detector. If you want to get really fancy you can use a GPRS mobile as a fallback in case of cable modem failure.

[Jarod]

is there any way i could possibly use my webcam to capture a picture of any motion onto my hard drive?? like software that monitors the motion and if there is it'll snap pictures to the hard drive?? software available for linux would be great, if its only available for M$ then it'll be alright too, of possibly a simple circuit to set off an alarm when the door is opened? this would be mainly a toy, but it would be cool, thanks

[Kodack]

There are tons of programs like that for windows. I'm not sure about linux. There are two problems with using a USB webcam though, reliability, and accountability. If the PC crashes your security system crashes, and if someone breaks in, it won't do good to store the burglary on your HD when they steal your PC.

the webcam I have connects directly to the network without a PC and has a web server built into it. It's quiet and reliable.

If you are looking for software google for gotcha