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Videoconference cameras are about $20. I use a monitoring program that speeds up the action just enough to review it, and I can always slow it down in a video editor, or snap stills. Write to a shared drive, and the dumbass who thinks he's getting the film by stealing the computer gets the wrong one. Or, you can hide the camera. They're small enough to go behind stretched canvas, behind Uncle Louie's eyeballs. I recorded an hour and a half with less than 300 MB. I could record for a week at that rate, and it will shut off when it hits the limits I set.
I bought about 20 programs from AVS, I think it was, and you pay $59 to register every one of them. They all take the same key, and there is some cool software in there. Even my neighbor Joe liked it, and he sells casino systems that can take several cameras and send all of the data to one port, zoom in and out, and switch cameras. You don't get them, with low-light correction, for $20, though. Both sound and video can be picked up at least 40' away, if the camera is focused for it. Not a bad deal for $20, and we have a computer in each room, so some cameras could look out the windows.
-denise
I bought about 20 programs from AVS, I think it was, and you pay $59 to register every one of them. They all take the same key, and there is some cool software in there. Even my neighbor Joe liked it, and he sells casino systems that can take several cameras and send all of the data to one port, zoom in and out, and switch cameras. You don't get them, with low-light correction, for $20, though. Both sound and video can be picked up at least 40' away, if the camera is focused for it. Not a bad deal for $20, and we have a computer in each room, so some cameras could look out the windows.
-denise