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I am not sure about Wireless Cams..]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.supervisioncam.com/

Multiple cameras, email notifications, image uploads, etc.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/
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The chapter is called "Remotely Monitor a Pet".]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/
D'oh - I quit reading right before it said "wrap-up" (generally wrap-ups contain no new info).
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There are lots of audio recorders that will only record when the level is above a threshold, but I don't know of any that will overwrite old files unless prompted.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/
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EvoCam also handles wireless cams, and as far as I can tell TinCam does not. Again, you'll have to look a bit higher up the software spectrum on the Windows side for this.

@Nuno - Using TinCam, you can just turn Auto Capture off from the Capture menu and it will stop all motion sensing. Using EvoCam, you can just quit the app - it saves your settings.

@Al - really good idea, not sure if any of the software solutions out there support "seeding" the detector. :) Does anybody have any dirt on face-recognition technology on the consumer side?]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/thanks!]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/
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2:Is there any way of having this software take pics upon motion as well as on schedule and having them displayed through the web browser? Having all sort of problem on my web server displaying the tincam.jpg which is in the root of my ftp area same as the html file and the background file. Basically the background.jpg shows but the tincam.jpg does not. Looking at the properties of the image that the browser is not showing, it is trying to access the image with the ftp permission in the file path IE: ftp://userid:password/website/folder.

Anyhelp on this much appreciated]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/how-to-turn-your-laptop-into-a-home-security-system/http://www.clearvisionsoftware.com
It has a free 30 day trial.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM