[mythtv-users] "Channelized" camera feeds for Myth

[Shane Bush]

Already got that covered :-) ...  My wife's the Assistant Director at a
largish daycare...  We're thinking of moving back home and opening our
own...

Shane Bush


On Thu, 13 May 2004, Apollo's list account wrote:

> Shane,
> Just spend the money and get a solution that was designed for that
> purpose. You will make your daycare more marketable with this option for
> parents to be able to see their kids. Also, don't want to be the party
> pooper, BUT YOU NEED TO TALK TO AN ATTORNEY about this. Dude, you can
> get into so much s%%t with this recording during the times kids are
> there, you have no idea! Plus, all parents need to sign vaiwers to allow
> you to videotape the play areas and some other areas when their kids are
> there.
>
> Shane Bush wrote:
>
> >
> > Shane Bush
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 13 May 2004, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>>>>"Shane Bush" <sbush at dbtech.net> 05/13/04 01:57PM >>>
> >>>
> >>>I'm trying to come up with a video survellance method that uses Myth for
> >>>doing monitoring of rooms in a Daycare...  Myth would record the cameras
> >>
> >>>from 6am to 6:30pm M-F and the Motion app would be working the rest of the
> >>
> >>>time to look for intruders and such...
> >>>
> >>
> >>So why have the time restriction?  Just have them on permanent motion
> >>detection.  Or were you thinking Myth would record an entire days' worth
> >>of activity regardless of movement?  Can myth do time-lapse type recording?
> >
> >
> > Well, I would want to record each room for the whole work day in Myth,
> > then stop and let Motion take over ... I'm planning on streaming the
> > video feeds to a protected internet site for parents.
> > Motion wouldn't be anything other than an afterhours survellance mode...
> > Of course it'd be storing its video so that MythVideo would pick it up :-)
> >
> >
> >>>I'm thinking that if there was some way to setup "channelized" video.
> >>>Like Channel 1 be one camera, channel 2 be another, etc...
> >>
> >>So you'd need that many tuner cards, right?  Or would it cycle through them?
> >>Or would the one detecting motion start recording when motion was detected?
> >
> >
> > Yup.. For each Camera (or Channel), one tuner card would be used..
> > that is unless you wanted to stagger recording... In which this setup
> > wouldn't be optimal.
> >
> >
> >
> >>>This would be successful in using Myth the way it was intended.. with
> >>>channels.  As well as being easy to maintain, it'd be scalable (I think).
> >>>
> >>>However, I don't know if a "Channelizer" exists, or even if it
> >>>does, what it's called...
> >>>
> >>
> >>I think it's a multiplexer.  But if each channel was a camera, would
> >>you want each channel going separately into the myth box, or would
> >>want them segmented on one screen so you could see all channels
> >>at the same time?  I think there is already hardware that exists
> >>to either segment or "scroll" through all the video feeds.  Sounds
> >>like a good idea, even for a hmoe install of this.  I've been thinking
> >>about getting some wireless cameras and putting them under the
> >>eaves of my house, but the cost of a time lapse VCR is almost $1,000.
> >>Using a homebrew myth box at about $400-$700 would be awesome,
> >>and I could use it as a myth box too boot.
> >>
> >>Paul
> >>
> >
> >
> > That's the beauty of it... You could do whatever before the 'multiplex' or
> > whatever afterward..
> >
> > I originally planned on splitting the video feeds to the lobby to separate
> > tv's before this 'multiplex' idea ... But now I'm thinking that  8
> > cameras multiplexed together and going to a box where xawtv/other has
> > 8 instances open, and sized just right on the nice 50" plasma in the
> > lobby, would be just perfect. ;-)
> >
> >
> >
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