Comment Webcams for security - You Betcha! (Score 1) 264
I'm disabled and this summer I too was going to run some webcams throughout the house I'm living in. Right now I'm living at home (even though I'm 21) because I just save so much in in-home care/medical bills (I. E. there aren't any : ), and the overall low cost of living here ($500 bucks covers my rent, food, telecom bills and groovy pain medication), makes it ideal for me to spend large quantities of my days writing software, working on my Linux distro, playing with my servers/network, and other various tweaks and hacks without worrying about the day-to-day crapola of, y'know, money/lifestyle-related stess. (It's great to be me. : )
Anywho, this summer I'm moving my base of operations in the house from the rather large corner of the living room, into a back bedroom. I need the space for my growing stash of electronics, tech books and servers, but the bad thing is, there's absolutely no view of the front door or the driveway, two things I can easily see from my vantage spot in the living room.
As I can't get up into my wheelchair without existance, I wouldn't be able to A. Check and see who's at the door, or B. escape in the case of a robbery. Now, I live in the boonies, so I'm not too worried about home invasion robberies like in bigger cities, but there is a bunch of heroin/cocaine/escatsy (sp) junkies who live in a trailer park down a few roads just on the river, which contains people who bulgarize the surrounding farm communities (of which my house is a part of) every 3-6 months. Now, these people are stupid and cowardly. If even so much as a 8-year-old is at home by himself the criminals run, so I'm not too worried about being physically injured...but, gang warfare from downtown has been known to occasionally spill over to the country (with seemingly empty houses during the day used as execusion spots), and there's an honor farm on the other side of the river where inmates frequently escape.
Sorry, I'm a long-winded bastard.
So I was going to mount 10/100 network cams in the three porches on my house, as well as intercoms. The Cat-5 is already laid through the attic, thanks to one of my sysadmin friends, now I just gotta buy the cameras. The intercom/doorbell system will come later.
Thanks though to all the /.'ers here who gave me additional ideas about my problem as well.
--Bo Bankson
New member of CVALE!
http://www.cvale.org/
Anywho, this summer I'm moving my base of operations in the house from the rather large corner of the living room, into a back bedroom. I need the space for my growing stash of electronics, tech books and servers, but the bad thing is, there's absolutely no view of the front door or the driveway, two things I can easily see from my vantage spot in the living room.
As I can't get up into my wheelchair without existance, I wouldn't be able to A. Check and see who's at the door, or B. escape in the case of a robbery. Now, I live in the boonies, so I'm not too worried about home invasion robberies like in bigger cities, but there is a bunch of heroin/cocaine/escatsy (sp) junkies who live in a trailer park down a few roads just on the river, which contains people who bulgarize the surrounding farm communities (of which my house is a part of) every 3-6 months. Now, these people are stupid and cowardly. If even so much as a 8-year-old is at home by himself the criminals run, so I'm not too worried about being physically injured...but, gang warfare from downtown has been known to occasionally spill over to the country (with seemingly empty houses during the day used as execusion spots), and there's an honor farm on the other side of the river where inmates frequently escape.
Sorry, I'm a long-winded bastard.
So I was going to mount 10/100 network cams in the three porches on my house, as well as intercoms. The Cat-5 is already laid through the attic, thanks to one of my sysadmin friends, now I just gotta buy the cameras. The intercom/doorbell system will come later.
Thanks though to all the
--Bo Bankson
New member of CVALE!
http://www.cvale.org/
