video surveillance

You can get cheap PC cards designed for just such a purpose, like this one:

Probably get them (and the camera's) a lot cheaper on eBay.

Get a big mean dog (preferably two) as well.

Dave.

All comes down to expectations enay will supply a dvr ard to add to your pc , be aware the cheap ones have only one controller chip and you need one per cam so shop carefully . A cheap card ( under $100 ) will run at best one or two cams

shop here

if you want a decent cam or ebay for anything else divide the fps by the number of cams , less than 25fps will "stutter " to some degree expect to pay $150.00 for an auto iris auto focus unit . go here >

to calculate the lens needed the more tvlines eg 480 means better image 240 lines is a rough and blurred picture

At night or during the day? Or both?

Why don't you go and whack him with a lump of four by two? As a first time offender you can say you were provoked, it's your word against his. Fines for assault are dismally low, maybe about $300 for a few blows to the head, and your neighbor will know that you're not to be messed with. It'll put him on the defensive, and the onus on him to prove his case.

Elmo

look here:

Available from Dick Smiths, etc.

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Also, if you're appropriately inclined, a bit of open source software called ZoneMinder. Supports a range of generic webcams and works very very well. Can trigger on movement, record for pre-set periods of time, present you with a daily summary of actual activity (as opposed to hours of nothing), email you notifications and/or the actual footage. It's pretty good.

GB

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This mob are completely useless and totally clueless about their own products..

They make a door cam/intercom with one or two handsets. First they tell someone that you just buy two of the single handset models and you can piggy back one onthe other to get the double handset version.

Then they say you can not do that with old models, but have to buy another new double model, which isn't any good for an external door.

Then they go back to option one, then this , then that.

Frankly they don't have a clue. The dizzy limit was when they came back telling me that you join two wires here from one handset and the other two wires there from the other handset. Yes, but what about the other two wires from each handset.. "Oh, there are four wires on each handset, we''l get back to you" and I'm still waiting.

I am inclined to agree. Their "Digital Private Eye" should be exactly the product that the OP, and anyone else who wishes to identify vandals, wants. After you find your property has been damaged you would expect to see the last n minutes of motion triggered action recorded where n depends on the size of the memory card you purchased. You would be disappointed. After the memory card is filled, instead of overwriting the oldest recorded frames, the device just stops recording!

Maybe, but the "Digital Private Eye" costs less than two hundred dollars and does not need to be connected to a computer. It includes the camera, a motion detector, a memory card and firmware to record the images. The image is adequate to identify a vandal from a small population. The population is one person in the case of the OP and restricted to members and their children for the vandals I wanted to identify at our tennis club.

Our tennis club does not have a computer and installing one would be costly and vulnerable to vandalism :( Although the "Digital Private Eye" needs a computer to read the memory card the computer does not need to be connected to the camera or even be on-site.

With a few hundred extra firmware instructions the "Digital Private Eye" could be the ideal, cheap tool to identify vandals in many common circumstances. I thought that their omission was enough to roughly agree that "this mob is completely useless".

Much better to use the vivotek free software with a decent dvr card.

providing a very average image at barely usable resolution , seeing the face and not just a blurred image is generally a good idea It includes

see above

a used PIII all that is required at less than $50.00 is all it costs , a dvr card able to provide good resolution from ebay under $50.00 and the camera from veetech at maybe $120.00 plus a cable

Although the "Digital Private

You could go to your local video survellience dealership and ask for some professional advice. I think the trick is to have a triggering mechanism, and a large hard drive that can record your neighbor's meanderings. Maybe have it set up to scheduled times when you aren't home.

You could probably set up a system like this for about 1000 bucks with a cheap 800 by 600 video camera, and pc combo. Platform sdk will allow you do perform some crafy little diversions into the realm of vid surv software on a microsft machine, and linux has ton's of free ware. Java has a ton as well.

I think the only problem you might run into is switching your feeds if you need more than one camera ckt.

Marc

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