anyone know of the packages you can get to wirelessly control camers in your house via a pc?

You can get them to automatically stream to harddisk whenever they see movement and upload to the web immediately.

I wouldn't mind getting a web or even just based system so that I can know my car is being watched in my garage at all times.

obvisouly web based is preferable as I could see what was happening from a distance, plus could see if there were mice in my garage.

Anyone else looked into this?

 

What's a just based system?

There's quite a few software packages that do this for you. What do you need to know? How to connect the cameras up/what software/?

 

I missed out just a pc based system, ie no net involved.

some mention wireless cameras.

Are there 80211b cameras which only need a power supply?

that would be helpful.

 

well I use PICO2000 4 cameras and hosted as an ftp

Steve

 

I have just installed 2 high res. black and white digital camera's with Infra red leds for night vision which are conneted to a Video capture PCi card in My PC, the software I am using is called PICO2000, it allows upto 16 camera's to be used and records to the hard drive in .AVI format. about 3 weeks worth of recording takes up about 30gb of hard drive space.

It cost £39 for the Capture card and software, I got the camera's from a used CCTV specialist at £35 each, 2 out door camera housings at £40 each (New and look the bussiness), 2 Infra red flood lights at £35 each, 2 power supplies at £20 each and aload of thin coax cable and some BNC connectors.