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On 01/08/13 11:57, Paul Sutton wrote:
I havent actually tried a USB camera on my Pi but my £10 one worked fine on an 800Mhz PC - always thought the Pi one was a bit of a sidetrack.On 01/08/13 10:10, lug@xxxxxx wrote:On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:57:48 +0800, Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:... I'm moaned that the PI couldn't be used as a security camera in the past on this list, though after playing with the PI camera, I think I'm changing my tune! This should be better and a 1/3 of the cost of a http://www.y-cam.com/I am interested in doing something similar as I have one of the original y-cams that only works properly with IE and have been thinking about replacing it for ages. One thing that is very good about the y-cam is reliability, it basically just keeps working. Last year I bought a couple of the cheap foscam clones off of ebay but they just weren't reliable enough, requiring constant resets and I ended up returning them. My experience is that a lot of these cheapo cameras have zero support often just a forum where users can complain about problems but no-one has any answers. I was thinking about going the Pi + PiCam route not to save money but just so that if something is wrong I have a reasonable chance of being able to fix it myself. Plus I also fancy hooking it up to the doorbell and fire alarm, etc. to send alerts and do some other stuff which would be hard/expensive to do with the commercial solutions. KevinAs if by some weird coincidence, todays posting on the Pi website is about the camera board documentation http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4483 May be useful Paul
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