Comments on: Keep Tab On Home Security With A Webcam And Twitter

By: Home security with Twitter and a webcam « Tybee Guy

Home security with Twitter and a webcam « Tybee Guy — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:38:03 +0000

[...] Keep Tab On Home Security With A Webcam And Twitter Motion [...]

By: jodumont

jodumont — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:45:21 +0000

wget -O – –user=USERNAME –password=PASSWORD –post-data=”status=Motion” https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
–2011-04-22 09:43:59– https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

Resolving twitter.com… 199.59.148.82, 199.59.148.10, 199.59.148.83
Connecting to twitter.com|199.59.148.82|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 401 Unauthorized
Unknown authentication scheme.
Authorization failed.

why ?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:51:29 +0000

Check out Webcam Zone Trigger.
http://www.zonetrigger.com
With this software you can setup hot spots to detect motion, each hot spot can perform a different task when it detects motion. So you can had it run a command line with different parameters (or run a different .bat file).

By: Alvinator

Alvinator — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:30:35 +0000

Alrighty, cool thanks

By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:31:32 +0000

@Alvinator:
1. Yes, it is possible to use multiple webcams but you’d need to modify the script to handle them (probably pass parameters for each camera to the script to identify them)
2. Styling it how you want (9 different feeds on one page) should be possible too but your would need to probably run your own web server and throw together a custom page. Because as far as I know, “motion” (the software used to do actual motion detection here) gives each feed it’s own url otherwise.
3. The images are compared to the immediately previous images only. So, for a pizza box falling, you will get the notification only when the pizza box actually fell and not after that. Please note that this part is again handled by the “motion” software and not by the script itself.

By: Alvinator

Alvinator — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:29:10 +0000

Annnnnnd one last thought;

Does this script you made compare the original image with future ones or does it compare each image to the next one. ’cause say if I had a leaning tower of pizza boxes (typical me) and it fell over, I don’t want to be receiving a twitter message every second (timestamps make for different messages) because pizza boxes fell over and it thinks theres an intruder. I’d like to have some way of remotely resetting its reference image so that once the pizza boxes have fallen I can tell it “heyy capture this images with the fallen boxes and stop looking at the original where the boxes are still on the table”

Do you sorta get what I mean?

By: Alvinator

Alvinator — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:23:19 +0000

(Part 2)
Okay maybe it just doesn’t like my ASCII matrix I made to illustrate;
I want it to show camera images like this:

1234
5678
9012 (last row 0 meaning 10, 11, 12)

That way when you move through browsing the pictures you see all the cameras at one specific time stamp then you can move to the next photo and so on so that instead of looking though separate folders say “front door”, “back window” on the http server you just have to look at one folder of pictures.

I’d also want to time stamp the script.

And one last thing, just wondering if I’d be able to set it to automatically upload to an ftp server somewhere when it detects motion so that if the main computer gets stolen somehow I can just look at the ftp server images. (Just uploading the motion detected images so as not to kill my bandwidth)

I’m pretty good with ubuntu just not so much the scripting side of it.

Shantanu Goel this is an awesome post and if you’d like a challenge you should give my ideas a try

By: Alvinator

Alvinator — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:19:45 +0000

(Sorry I think there must be a character limit on these posts…)
Heyy just wondering before I venture into this project, is it possible to be using multiple webcams? I have about 12 webcams (got them from china for a pretty sweet price)

I’d like to be able to combine the images in somewhat of a matrix using the 12 snapshots so that when browsing through the pictures I can have it shown something like this:

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Sweet Hacks - Vol II | GrokCode — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:24:41 +0000

[...] WikiViz is a Java program that renders graphical representations of graphs containing nodes and edges. In this case, the nodes are Wikipedia category pages and the edges are links between pages. The algorithm works by first placing each node, and then iteratively moving strongly linked nodes closer together and springing weakly linked nodes farther apart. Overlapping nodes are nudged away from each other by a different process. WikiViz can be used on other datasets such as related books in Amazon. Home Security Via Twitter and a Webcam [...]

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:50:59 +0000

I came across an article in The Times of India, Mumbai edition about “Keep Tab On Home Security With A Webcam And Twitter”. I want shantanugoel to show me a project that talks about being able to receive messages through internet and through mobile when an intruder walks into the house and I am at a distant place. I want something that is compatible with Windows XP. I am good in creating electronic hardware projects which involves soldering and fault finding jobs. However, I am not so well versed with software projects. Can Shantanu or anyone help me to acquire a security monitoring project, as explained above.