On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 10:45:41 AM UTC-5, Steve2Q wrote: > > Vince, thanks for that. Now that I think of it, those Chinese cams (and > DVRs) were used as bots during a recent DOS attack. The newer ones are > supposed to be better, but who knows for sure? >
steve, some of this strays a bit off topic, but a few things to consider: - most cameras are not capable of handling more than one or two clients - exposing a camera directly to the internet is usually a bad idea - it might be phoning home, either intentionally or after being compromised - it might have security vulnerabilities - with a direct connection, you don't have any way of detecting the former two items - the firmware may or may not have all of the capture/processing capabilities you want to do - recent cameras (e.g., 4MP hikvision or dahua) can do some impressive motion capture, but you'll be able to do even more (perhaps not real-time) on a proper computer i find it better to use a computer somewhere on the network to capture images from the camera and do any image processing or timelapse creation then put the images (raw and/or processed) and videos onto a server that can serve them if necessary, make locked-down access to the 'live video' capabilities of the camera. do this with a reverse proxy or port mapping this also makes it easier to manage retention policies for the images and videos it also makes it possible to hive off unique/memorable images and videos without disrupting the normal access there are lots of systems that can do this, or you can roll your own. here is one example - look at the images and timelapse: http://sailing.mit.edu/weather and you can see the image and video histories here: http://sailing.mit.edu/eyesee the 'eyesee' package is a couple of perl scripts that do the image capture and timelapse creation, and some really simply html and javascript to display the histories. the perl uses imagemagick and ffmpeg. m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
