On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 18:59 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > More recently, we've had monitored security installed. Mrs S tends to > be a little paranoid, and I thought it might be worth the dollars for > her peace of mind. > > In several years, we've had no intrusions, but quite a few false > alarms. I had thought that it'd be an idea to try making a better security system, one that made use of Linux, and used ADSL for reporting to a security office. Either something like more than one sensor per room, and both need tripping enough before being recognised as an alarm (like ignoring moths or spiders going past one sensor), and multiple sensor trips required to really be sure. Or, what interests me more, would be high resolution cameras that show the security office whether the house is empty, or what's going on (strange men taking stuff out and pillaging the place, or recognisable images of the owners - which means supplying the monitoring company with the owner's pictures). The latter one seems hard on two counts: Most cameras are crap, you couldn't recognise your own friends on the pictures you see floated about on the news. So they're pretty crap at trying to use them to catch a burglar, afterwards. Trying to find something that's not just for Windows. You want it to be easy to get working, and reliable. Even some of the standalone networkable cameras depend on MSIE for you to see their pictures. Years of false alarms have pissed me off, and so has having to go through additional entry rituals to get into your own house before your hearing gets assaulted by sirens. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
