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Re: Turning a laptop into a CCTV

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Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:

> http://vincent.is/turning-a-laptop-into-cctv/
> 
>    During the night of the 14th to the 15th of September, the lunch (a
>    glorious looking BBQ pulled pork sandwich) I had put on my kitchen table
>    was half eaten (the bite was seriously huge, think a good 100g of bread
>    + meat). A previous accident (garbage bag being torn) suggested we might
>    have a rodent issue in the house (rodent or whatever that could be).
>    Being curious about who (could be a sleepeating housemate!)/what the
>    hell ate my lunch, we decided to investigate with my flatmates. No
>    droppings and the quantity of food eaten rule out mice (or at least we
>    think so, unless we're up against a colony of ninja mice), leaving us
>    with rats, squirrels or stray cats (a small window was open in the
>    kitchen, big enough for a small animal to enter).
> 
>    The best way to find out what it is being actually seeing it, we decided
>    to put some bait out and film the kitchen at night. We don't have a
>    camera but we have webcams on our laptop. How hard could it be to create
>    a script to take pictures with it at a set interval ? I ended up
>    creating Rodent to solve that issue.
> 
>    ...

BTDT, have the mouse pics, using a 2nd hand web cam and motion from

   http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/

Results would have been better with a good surveillance cam.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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Turning a laptop into a CCTV Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-23 01:35 +0000
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