Make a Spycam

Heavily inspired by using a Webcam to monitor wildlife

Get your web cam working

Follow this guide Monitor a Webcam, make sure you can view and record video files, make a not of the frame rate you can achieve.

remote access

note if you’re using ssh don’t forget the -X option to enable X forwarding

To Do

1. Get your web cam working
2. Enable Motion detection
3. Decide what to do with the video you've just captured.
   1. email yourself notifcation of the event
   2. take a snapshot image
   3. upload the data
4. Going Cordless

1. Battery
2. Wifi

Wifi

Edimax EW-7811UN http://www.cianmcgovern.com/getting-the-edimax-ew-7811un-working-on-linux/

Related Pages

Monitor a Webcam

References

1. http://jeremyblythe.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/battery-powered-wireless-motion.html
2. http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionGuideGettingItRunning