[TriLUG] bash script, motion, scp

[Scott G. Hall]

James Tuttle wrote:
> The first thing my wife had to say about the webcam in the window was "Don't you think they'll steal your computer?"  I'd like to hide it and will start playing with it this weekend.  I have no idea how to begin, though.
>
> Any ideas?  There aren't many possible locations to place the camera so I'll have to try to disguise it.
>
> I was thinking of trying to disguise the camera behind a lightcatcher or something.
>
> Jim

My wife has a couple of large pots on the porch with those ceramic 
figures in them (one a turtle with a bouncing head, the other a 
rabbit).  The turtle is hollow and has openings in it that would easily 
fit a webcam.  They also make figurines with holes in them -- easy 
enough to hide a webcam in.

At our house, though, we have a motion sensor mounted on the corner of 
the garage near the front door, and I have a webcam mounted on the 
motion sensor so that it looks like part of the motion sensor.  I have a 
couple of infrared lamps mounted in the same base that holds the 
security spotlights, that just look like burned-out security lights.  
(The motion sensor trips the security lights on via my controller 
computer, which also records video from the camera).  At night the 
camera gets a good view of the door, porch and immediate front yard from 
the infrared spotlights.

Now if I can just get a camera on the mailbox to catch the license plate 
of those kids baseball-batting our mailbox ...  Did someone say wireless 
webcam?

-- 
Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net