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  Turning a laptop into a CCTV Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-23 01:35 +0000
    Re: Turning a laptop into a CCTV Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-09-22 23:19 -0300

#5044 — Turning a laptop into a CCTV

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.

   ...

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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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